Switch primary email for iCloud account

Hey guys, I'm fairly new to the Apple ecosystem and I must be honest it was reluctant at first. Anyway I've had an itunes account (lets say [email protected]) for some time now. I don't remember setting it up but I also appear to have an icloud email with the same name ([email protected]).
So i've been having some issues with my gmail account recently and i've been considering closing it down. Before I do this I wanted to switch my itunes account (well infact its everything, i'm now using a mac, ipad and iphone) from [email protected] to [email protected] But this doesn't appear to be possible. It won't let me switch to an apple owned domain. This seems weird as I can create a new icloud account using the @icloud.com domain.
Anyone know what i'm doing wrong? Is it possible to delete the [email protected] email that I have, that way I could just create a new account using that address.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Andrew

[email protected] is permanently part of the ID which created it. As it's the primary address you cannot delete it nor make it the actual ID; and neither primary address nor aliases can be moved to another account. You can change your existing ID to any other functioning non-Apple address provided it's never been associated with an Apple ID.

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