Lulu opened up about her struggles with hearing loss.
The Scottish music icon opened up about his hearing loss during an appearance on “Good Morning Britain” on Friday.
Lulu's comments come as she prepares for her final live shows as part of her farewell tour titled “Champagne for Lulu.”
“If you're 75 years old, your hearing isn't as good as it used to be,” explains Lulu, who is 75. “But if you're in the rock and roll industry and you're a performer, a lot of them are… deaf!”
“They have no hearing at all,” she added.
Lulu then revealed that she had recently had her hearing tested.
“Yes, I have moderate hearing loss, but you know me, I hate not being able to hear people!” she said. “I want to hear everything, my music.”
The singer-songwriter recently teamed up with Specsavers and the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) to promote hearing conservation.
“Having spent most of my life on stage, I was always aware of the harshness and muffled sound but never really paid it much attention,” she explained in a statement, via the Daily Record. “Music is the foundation of everything I do, so being able to still enjoy it is incredibly important to me.”
“When you wear a hearing aid, you can hear everything,” she added.
Elsewhere in the interview, the Shout hitmaker admitted that although the Champagne for Lulu tour will be his last, he's open to performing in the future.
“This won't be the last time I sing, this won't be the last time I perform, but touring the way I've done it… I'm 75 years old,” she explained.
Lulu announced the final tour during an appearance on the Rosebud with Giles Brandreth podcast in February.
“Actually, this — and I'm announcing this for the first time now — this is my farewell tour with family and friends,” she said.
“I had a bit of a tough tour last year but it worked out and I made it work, but these days you need a lot of people to be successful in your career.”
She added: “And I felt unsupported. But then I turned 75 and I thought, 'I want to keep working, but I want to do it in a different way.'”