Lulu set to perform at Glastonbury for last live gig this summer after announcing her retirement from touring following current run of shows

Lulu will take the stage at Glastonbury for the final time this year after announcing her retirement from touring.

The 75-year-old singer told fans in February that she would no longer be performing live after her current tour after a stellar career spanning 60 years. She said she felt “unsupported” in dealing with the tough demands of touring last year.

Her Champagne with Lulu tour ends next week at the London Palladium, but she has booked a gig at the world-famous Worthy Farm festival in June.

She first performed at Glastonbury in 2015 nine years ago and will perform at the Field of Avalon this year.

A source said The sun: ‘Lulu will be announced as a performer at Glastonbury next week.

“It’s a huge deal for her and she can’t wait to play the Avalon stage.

‘When Glasto organizer Emily Eavis contacted about visiting the farm, she couldn’t turn it down.

‘It will be an emotional moment for her as it is the last time she will ever play Glastonbury.

“It was magical for her when she last stood on that same stage in 2015.”

The Scottish pop star previously spoke about her performance at Glastonbury in 2015 and said she was delighted with the response she received from the audience.

She said HELLO! magazine a year after her performance, in 2016: ‘When I went on stage at Glastonbury, the roar of the audience was deafening.

‘I was very surprised because I didn’t really know what to expect. It was just fantastic and I had so much fun.

‘My younger brother Billy is a musician and he told me that all the angels were looking down on me because the sound was perfect, the lighting was good and the crowd was fantastic.’

She first performed at Glastonbury nine years ago, in 2015, and will perform at the Field of Avalon this year (pictured at Glastonbury in 2015)

Lulu will be seen on stage on Tuesday during the opening night of her latest tour at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, Scotland

Her Champagne with Lulu tour ends next week at the London Palladium, but she has a gig booked at the world-famous Worthy Farm festival in June

It comes after Lulu revealed the very normal activity she refuses to do before midday while touring.

She told the BBC: ‘I won’t speak before 12 noon. I can understand why you think I’m lying, but no, I’m very disciplined.

‘I try not to leave my room until twelve o’clock. That makes it easier. I take good care of my instrument. It allows me to sing.”

Following speculation that she was considering quitting touring, Lulu told the Rosebud podcast in February: “I’m announcing it for the first time now – this is my farewell tour.”

She has promised to make the concerts – starting on April 9 in Glasgow and ending at the London Palladium – memorably different, with family and famous friends set to appear at the shows and some likely to perform with her on stage.

Speaking about her latest series of performances, she added to the BBC: ‘To be honest, if I was 15 years old and someone had suggested I do a farewell tour at 75, I would have said, ‘You’re laughing .”

“It almost takes an army to take to the road and I don’t want to do it this way anymore.”

The tour is also expected to include a conversation about her career.

Lulu has announced her retirement from touring after a stellar 60-year career (Lulu pictured in 1966, just two years into her career)

Although she would not reveal precise details, she guaranteed her fans that they would hear her 1969 Eurovision Song Contest winning hit Boom Bang-a-Bang.

Lulu, honored with an OBE and CBE, previously said: ‘I’m not going to tell you exactly what I’m going to do, but of course I’m going to have to do Boom Bang-a-Bang. The public still wants to do it themselves. You can’t give people what they want – and more.

“If you’ve ever seen me on tour, let me say you’ve never seen me like this.

‘This is actually – I’m announcing it for the first time now – this is my farewell tour, with family and friends.

“Because I did a tour last year that was quite grueling – it was successful, it went well – but you need an army to be successful in your career these days.”

Suggesting she might focus on her acting, she added: “And I didn’t feel supported. But then I turned 75 and I thought: you know what, I want to keep working, but I want to do it in a different way. I have learned…

‘And I have also become a slightly different person. I’m not afraid to be vulnerable.’

Possible tour guests include Lulu’s former musical collaborators Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney. Sting, Take That and Westlife.

The Scottish star, real name Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, said she found traveling ‘grueling’, while adding that over the past 12 months she has realized she has changed

It was at just 15 years old when her version of the Isley Brothers Shout peaked at number seven on the UK charts and she had a hit with the title song of the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun.

The name of her latest tour, The Champagne for Lulu tour, was inspired by a line from her Ab Fab performance that had people around the world shouting the words at her.

The closing date of Palladium is exactly on the 60th anniversary of her hit ‘Shout’.

Lulu later spoke about her experiences with celebrities, including meeting David Bowie, who in 1974 produced her cover of his 1970 song The Man Who Sold the World, which reached No. 3 in the British charts and was a Top 10 hit in all of Europe; of course the song

She told The Guardian: ‘I first met him in a studio in the US with Iggy Pop…

‘Later he walked up to me in the foyer of a hotel in Sheffield, invited me to his show that night and said, “I want to make a hit with you.” And that’s exactly what happened…

“The record company wanted me to become a little pop diva, but he said, ‘They don’t understand your voice.’ I loved Hunky Dory and he looked like he hadn’t wiped off his makeup from the day before. His hair was orange, his skin was alabaster…

“After we had a few drinks, we were nose-to-nose for the rest of the evening.”

Speaking about her experiences with The Rolling Stones, she astonishingly said, “The Stones would pat me on the head like a little sister, which always annoyed me because I wanted to be their equal.”

Lulu was then asked: ‘Is it true that you took Pete Townshend to your parents’ house in Glasgow for tea and biscuits?’

She then said: ‘It wasn’t just Pete, it was certainly Pete and Roger [Daltrey]. It might even have been the whole band, and my parents’ apartment was very small…

‘The Who supported me in Glasgow when they were the High Numbers, but it wasn’t tea and biscuits. My father was a big drinker, so he sent for half a bottle of whiskey and six cans of lager. I still meet Roger…

“Nothing can reproduce the history you have with people from when you were young.”