Music icon to perform final concert at Glastonbury 2024

She’s wrapping up her 60 years in the business at Glastonbury (Picture: Jim Dyson/Redferns)

After captivating audiences across the UK and beyond for six decades, Lulu is gearing up for her final bow — and it seems she’s going out with a resounding crescendo.

At 75 years old, the legendary singer disclosed last month her intention to draw the curtain on her illustrious career, marked by Eurovision victories and a chart-topping Bond theme.

However, before bidding adieu, Lulu is rumored to grace the stage at Glastonbury, the pinnacle of the UK’s festival scene.

The Scottish icon has been on an exhaustive tour for the past year, which she clarified as her farewell tour, culminating with just a handful more performances.

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She’s set to play the London Palladium on Wednesday before heading to Germany and back to London in May.

 
 

However, according to The Sun, Lulu’s final gig will be on the Avalon stage at Worthy Farm in June, which has just released fresh tickets.

Lulu has been an icon of British pop for years (Picture: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Pride In London)

‘Lulu is going to be announced as a performer at Glastonbury next week,’ an insider told the publication.

They continued: ‘It’s a massive deal for her and she can’t wait to play the Avalon stage. When Glasto organiser Emily Eavis got in touch about going down to the farm she couldn’t turn it down.’

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The Shout hitmaker first played the Avalon stage in 2015, which she said at the time was ‘just fantastic’ and the crowd were ‘deafening’.

‘It will be an emotional moment for her as it’s the last time she will ever play Glastonbury,’ shared the insider.

Her earliest hits came when she was only 15 years old (Picture: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for EON Productions & Prime Video)

Lulu, born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, rose to fame in the early 60s aged just 15 and landed chart success with the Isley Brothers cover.

Hits like Leave a Little Love and Try to Understand followed as she moved record labels and continued to climb the UK charts.

She won 1969’s Eurovision with Boom Bang-a-Bang, although that crown was tied with three others; Spain, The Netherlands, and France.

While speaking to Gyles Brandreth on the Rosebud podcast, The Man Who Sold the World singer shared: ‘Last year I did a tour that was kind of gruelling – it was successful, it went well – but you need an army to be a success in your career these days.’

She’s ready to call it quits after a gruelling tour (Picture: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

She continued, saying that she felt ‘unsupported’ with her music, ‘but then I turned 75, and I thought ‘you know what, I want to carry on working, but I want to do it a different way. I’ve learned.’

The Relight My Fire hitmaker then teased fans with what they can expect during her final string of shows: ‘I’m not going to tell you exactly what I’m going to do, but of course I’ll have to do ‘Boom Bang-a-Bang’. The audience want to do it by themselves anyway.’

So maybe, just maybe, fans flocking to Somerset for this year’s epic Glastonbury festival will get to see the final hurrah for this icon of pop.