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Petula Clark
Sally "Petula" Clark is a British singer, actress, and songwriter. She started her professional career as a child performer and is still active more than 80 years later.
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Born 15 November 1932 · Q236212
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2026· 4 entries
Public attention spiked: 6,568 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.2× the usual 1,253, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 16,924 Wikipedia readers in one day, 13.5× the usual 1,253, with 9 article edits. Editors noted: 2000–present join
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Philippine Daily Inquirer: Petula Clark, 93, on AI tide sweeping the music industry: ‘A little worrying…scary’
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2025· 3 entries
Released album “Solitude & Sunshine: The Songs of Rod McKuen”.
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The Cheat Sheet: Was Petula Clark’s ‘Downtown’ Meant for a Major 1960s Band?
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WWNO: Petula Clark teases London show 60 years after 'Downtown' made her a star in the U.S.
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2023· 1 entry
The Cheat Sheet: ‘Don’t Sleep in the Subway’ Baffled Petula Clark
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2022· 2 entries
Deadline.com: Stage Musical Featuring Petula Clark Songs & Other ’60s Hits In Development
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Released album “Sailor”.
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2021· 2 entries
BroadwayWorld: Photos: Petula Clark Celebrates Her Birthday at MARY POPPINS
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Contactmusic.com: Petula Clark: I sang on Give Peace a Chance by accident
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2020· 1 entry
Rolling Stone: Nashville Bomber Played ‘Downtown’ Before Blowing Up His RV. Petula Clark Isn’t Happy
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Vu d’ici”.
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2017· 1 entry
Released album “Living for Today”.
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2013· 4 entries
Released album “Lost in You”.
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In 2013, Clark stated that she and Wolff were "not in a romantic relationship anymore".
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“not in a romantic relationship anymore”
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Clark stated that she and Wolff were "not in a romantic relationship anymore"
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2012).
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Was installed as a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France by the French Minister of Culture
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2011· 1 entry
The Lark Street Business Improvement District in a section of the downtown area of Albany, New York, needed a name for its logo/mascot, a graphic image of a blue lark
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2010· 1 entry
Became president of the Hastings Musical Festival, and appeared on the Vivement Dimanche show on French television
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “With All My Heart”.
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2007· 1 entry
Clark was the subject of the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about her Welsh family history
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2004· 3 entries
Toured Australia and New Zealand, appeared at the Hilton in Atlantic City, New Jersey; the Hummingbird Centre in Toronto; Humphrey's in San Diego; and the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut; and participat
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Her recording of "Downtown" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
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Repeated her performance of Norma Desmond in a production at the Opera House in Cork, Ireland, which was later broadcast by the BBC
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2002· 1 entry
Attended a fundraiser for Labour prime minister Tony Blair
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2000· 3 entries
Released album “This Is My Song”.
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Presented a self-written, one-woman show, highlighting her life and career, to large critical and audience acclaim at the St
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Released album “Conversations in the Wind”.
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1999· 2 entries
Released album “41 succès inoubliables”.
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Released album “20 Succès Inoubliables”.
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1998· 10 entries
Released album “Here For You”.
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1998).
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Released album “These Are My Songs: The Ultimate Collection”.
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Released album “Petula Clark Sings Tony Hatch”.
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Released album “The Complete Golden Hits Collection”.
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Released album “Anthologie, Volume 1 : Rendez-vous avec Petula”.
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Released album “Where the Heart Is”.
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Released album “Colour My World”.
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Released album “Les Grands Numéro 1”.
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Clark was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II
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1997· 4 entries
Released album “Just Petula”.
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Released album “Her Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Merry Christmas … Joyeux Noel”.
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Released album “The Classic Collection”.
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1996· 5 entries
Released album “The Broadway Kids Sing Broadway”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Petula Clark”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Les Années Petula”.
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Released album “The Best of Petula Clark”.
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1995· 4 entries
Released album “16 Most Requested Songs”.
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Released album “Blue Lady: The Nashville Sessions”.
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Released album “I Love to Sing”.
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Released album “The Other Man’s Grass (Is Always Greener) / Petula: Kiss Me Goodbye”.
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1994· 5 entries
Released album “The Polygon Years Vol. 2, 1952-1955”.
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Released album “The Polygon Years Vol. 1, 1950-1952”.
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Released album “Gold: Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “The Nixa Years Vol. 1”.
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Released album “The Nixa Years Vol. 2”.
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1993· 2 entries
Released album “The Golden Hits”.
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Released album “The EP Collection Vol. 2”.
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1992· 7 entries
Released album “I Know a Place”.
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Released album “Petula Clark Treasures, Volume One”.
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Released "Oxygen", a single produced by Andy Richards and written by Nik Kershaw
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Released album “Petula Clark in Hollywood / In Other Words / Rarities and Obscurities”.
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Released album “Pet Songs”.
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Released album “The Best of Petula Clark, Volume 2”.
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Released album “The Original Hits”.
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1990· 3 entries
Released album “The EP Collection”.
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Released album “The Best of Petula Clark, Volume 1”.
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Released album “The Special Collection”.
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1989· 3 entries
Released album “Downtown: 20 Greatest Hits”.
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And 1990, for which she composed the score; Blood Brothers, in which she made her Broadway debut in 1993 at the Music Box Theatre, followed by the American tour; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, appearing in b
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Released album “The Hits Collection”.
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1988· 5 entries
Released album “C'est ma chanson”.
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Registering her first UK singles chart success since 1972, making the Top 10 in the UK in December 1988
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Released album “My Greatest”.
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Released album “Downtown - The Petula Clark Collection”.
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Released album “The Hit Singles Collection”.
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1986· 3 entries
Released album “Greatest Hits of Petula Clark”.
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Released album “Souvenirs”.
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Released album “Give It a Try”.
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1983· 1 entry
Took on the title role in George Bernard Shaw's Candida
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1980· 1 entry
Made her last film appearance, in the British production Never Never Land
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “20 All Time Greatest”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Come On Home”.
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “Timex Presents Opryland U.S.A.”.
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1972· 5 entries
Released album “Now”.
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Released album “The Petula Clark Album”.
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Released album “Petula Clark's Greatest Hits”.
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“The Wedding Song (There Is Love)”
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“I Don't Know How To Love Him”
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Today”.
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Memphis”.
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1969· 2 entries
Released album “Portrait of Petula”.
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Released album “Just Pet”.
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1968· 4 entries
Released album “Petula Clark’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 1”.
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Brought the French composer/arranger Michel Colombier to the U
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NBC invited Clark to host her own special in the US, and in doing so, she inadvertently made television history
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Was the recipient of the MIDEM international award for the highest worldwide sales by a female artist
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1967· 2 entries
Released album “These Are My Songs”.
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In Las Vegas, she was a witness at the wedding of her friend, French singer Charles Aznavour, alongside Sammy Davis Jr
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1966· 2 entries
Released album “My Love”.
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Released album “I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love”.
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1965· 4 entries
Released album “In Love”.
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Released album “Petula 65”.
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Released album “The World’s Greatest International Hits”.
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Released album “Downtown”.
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1964· 2 entries
In Spain on Hispavox EP "Petula Clark canta en Español" (Cat
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Released album “Hello Paris”.
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1963· 2 entries
Released album “Petula Clark”.
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Wrote the soundtrack for the French crime film A Couteaux Tirés (Daggers Drawn) – released in 1964 – and made a cameo appearance as herself in the film
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1962· 5 entries
While German and Italian versions of her English and French recordings charted, as well
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Released album “Petula”.
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Henderson penned a ballad about their break-up, called "There's Nothing More To Say", for Clark's LP In Other Words
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Released album “Rendez-vous avec Petula Clark”.
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Released album “In Other Words”.
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1960· 1 entry
Embarked on a concert tour of France and Belgium with Sacha Distel, who remained a close friend until his death in 2004
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1959· 1 entry
Released album “Petula Clark in Hollywood”.
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1957· 2 entries
Released album “You Are My Lucky Star”.
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Clark was invited to appear at the Paris Olympia, where, despite her misgivings and a bad cold, she was received with acclaim
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “A Date With Pet”.
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1955· 2 entries
Released album “Petula Clark Sings”.
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Clark became linked romantically with Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson
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1954· 3 entries
Charted with "The Little Shoemaker", the first of her big UK hits, and within two years she began recording in French
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Had starred in a stage production of The Constant Nymph, but at the urging of her children, did not return to legitimate theatre until 1981, starring as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music at the Apollo Victoria Th
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Released album “Petula Clark Gift Album”.
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1949· 1 entry
Henderson introduced her to the record producer Alan A
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1947· 1 entry
Met Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson at the Peter Maurice Publishing Company
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1946· 1 entry
Clark began her television career with an appearance on a BBC variety show, Cabaret Cartoons, which led to her being signed to host her own afternoon series, Petula Clark
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1945· 2 entries
Performed with an orchestra in the entrance hall of Bentall's Department Store in Kingston upon Thames for a tin of toffee and a gold wristwatch
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Clark was featured in the comic Radio Fun, in which she was billed as "Radio's Merry Mimic"
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1944· 2 entries
Clark was discovered by the film director Maurice Elvey, who cast her, at the age of 12, as the precocious orphaned waif Irma in his war drama Medal for the General
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When he took her to see Flora Robson in a production of Mary Stuart
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-11-15.
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