It’s Lulu
Originally recorded by Our Lady of M&S for the 1967 movie of the same name starring Sidney Poitier, this track has been covered by everyone from Al Green to the cast of Glee (naturally) but I challenge you to find a more lush and mesmerising interpretation than this.
What’s It All About, Alfie?
Another schoolgirl with a long unspoken crush on her teacher finally graduates and puts away childish things, looking for a way to thank the man who took her “from crayons to perfume”. It’s a heartbreaking coming of age story that tackles a similar subject to ‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me’ without the sleaze of Sting.
What is there for you I can buy?
If you wanted the world I’d surround it with a wall,
I’d scrawl these words with letters ten feet tall,
“TO SIR WITH LOVE”
What is there for you I can buy?
Our lady of M&S? Wasn’t she the face of Littlewoods?
Unless this is an unintentionally funny typo and you meant Our lady of S&M, which suggests Lulu has a sordid, behin-closed-doors past…
Our lady of M&S? Wasn’t she the face of Littlewoods?
Unless this is an unintentionally funny typo and you meant Our lady of S&M, which suggests Lulu has a sordid, behind-closed-doors past…
I must be getting soft in my old age. I find the lyrics to this very touching.
Pip – I’ve seen her in M&S ads, but I don’t remember her doing anything for Littlewoods. She may well have done… I try to avoid advertising as much as I possibly can.