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Enchantment : the UK and Petula concerts
The first time I travelled to London was actually not to see Petula; it was August 1987 and I was visiting my brother who was working there for a summer. But it surely paved the way for my continued enchantment with the city and all of the UK. On that trip I went to the…
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Petula and The Big Apple
“ If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere!–”. It was actually Frank Sinatra, not Petula Clark, who popularized this tribute to New York. Petula had already “made it” in New York decades before Sinatra had a hit with the song.. The catalyst for her success there and all across North America…
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The Mary Poppins Trip:Our Last Petula Encounter
Our Most recent “Petula Adventure”! Our last, or more positively, our most recent “Petula Adventure” was in November of 2019 in London where Petula had several weeks earlier begun her role as the Bird Woman in Mary Poppins! A week in London is a treasure in itself in my view. Over the years we have…
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Petula Encores in Montreal
Petula Clark has often spoken about her concerts at Place des Arts in Montreal in 1969, a time when Quebec’s separatist politics was very much alive. Petula encountered the political tension during her performances and it ultimately led to her unexpected participation in John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s famous bed-in recording of “Give Peace a Chance.”…
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Birthday Celebrations with Petula (sort of)!!
Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK In June 1987, April 2007, and May 2014, my husband and I marked milestone birthdays with celebrations centered around Petula Clark concerts. Two were carefully planned and one unfolded spontaneously. Yet each time, as a special birthday approached, we instinctively knew that the most meaningful gift we could give each other…
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Petula Moments : from Texas Hill Country to Port Macquarie’s Coastal Charm
One World Theatre nestled in the Hill Country of Texas near Austin is indeed an architectural beauty. It reminded me of a Tuscan villa, complete with terracotta roof tiles and elegant arch ways. The intimate theatre ,with superb acoustics was where we saw Petula perform on December 3, 2017. There actually were two back to…
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Beyond Legend: The Enduring Magic of Petula Clark!
The first concert was spectacular but so too was the last! It was November 1967 and I was twenty years old and had been completely taken by Petula Clark ‘s music from the moment I had heard Downtown two years before. Then came all the other hits —I Know a Place, A Sign of the…
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A blustery Night on the North Sea Warmed by a Boisterous Petula Audience.
An unforgettable concert: the audience was ablaze with Petula fever! Having been to many places to see Petula Clark perform and having been a part of many appreciative audiences, none stands out more than the one on a blustery November night in Ostend, Belgium in 2012. Ostend is a city perched in the north of…
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Petula: So much more than Downtown
Many people only know Petula Clark for her massive 1965 hit “Downtown,” but her career is far more extensive and impressive. Her success had begun years before when she was just a child with her own “Pet’s Parlour” radio programme, as well as a successful acting career in films for the Rank Organization. So, well…
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Starting Backwards
Our Most recent “Petula Adventure”! I am going to start at the end, rather than at the beginning –I do not mean at the real end because Petula Clark is still amazing –actually, she is about to release her auto-biography in October 2025. But I refer to the last time my husband and I saw…
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