Lulu Album: “Greatest Hits [Bonus DVD]”

There are many "Best of Lulu" type cds out on the market and they focus on her career in the 60s. This one is quite different in that it covers mainly more recent works from her brilliant dance hits from the 90s and tracks from her dynamic album of duets, "Together". If you think of Lulu as merely a 60s icon, you will be delightfully suprised that she is back on track and and has been recording music that is fantastic. The DVD alone makes this worth the price. I cannot recommend this excellent CD and DVD highly enough. My only regret is that Lulu is not being marketed in the US. She has matured and is now a brilliant singer/songwriter. I so think that with her forthcoming album, "Back On Track", we will hear a great deal more from this amazing artist.

Lulu has got to be one of the most repackaged artists in pop music. Compilation after compilation has been released.

Well, finally we have one that includes the best of her early hits, 70's recorings, and the best work of her long career: the 90's and 2000's

Included from the 60's: Shout, To Sir With Love (She's a woman with two signature songs), The Boat That I Row, and the arguable Boom Bang-A-Bang (even she has to be sick of that one, but it did win her the Eurovision contest, so for a career retrospecive I guess it has to be included.)

The 70's are represented by her top 40 hit Oh Me Oh My, her colaboration with David Bowie, The Man Who Sold The World, the Bond theme The Man With The Golden Gun, and the brilliant I Could never Miss You (More Than I Do). The later taken from the late 70's Alfa Records album "LULU", song for song the best album she had released up to that point. But the best was yet to come.

The 90's saw her reemergence as a dance DIVA with the hits Independance, and Relight My Fire (with Take That, and landing at the top of the UK charts). One of her first attemps at songwriting, I Dont Want To Fight, is a fantastic recoring, and was later a huge hit for Tina Turner. That success led to more song writing and the best work of her career.

The work she has done in the new millennium has proven she is still a force to be reckoned with. The dance singles Where The Poor Boys Dance and Hurt Me So Bad outshine anything turned out by today's top female singers. The fact that problems with the record label resulted in only the two singles being released and the album being shelved is a shame (we can only hope that someday we will hear those remaining songs).

Her duets cd "Together" is represented here with collaborations with Elton John, and Sting. Her duet with Ronan Keating on We've Got Tonight is a beautiful and powerful vocal.

This collection ends with a sweet duet with former husband Maurice Gibb, First Of May, recorded live shortly before his death.

There is a 2 disk version available that containes a great DVD of Videos of most of the songs. The DVD is in the PAL format but for those with access to a region free DVD player it is well worth the extra cost.