We are certainly not on my Lazy Sunday Afternoon spot saying Never On Sunday to the much loved and still singing at the age of 80...Petula Clark
This Is Incredible: 80-Year-Old "Downtown" Singer Petula Clark Has a Brilliantly Modern New Song Out: Obsessed: glamour.com
Anyone in their fifties or over, looking for a job, or indeed just my fans and so reading my blog are likely to remember Petula Clark... She also has amongst an amazing amount of Google references for a singer now aged 80, a site largely targeted for her British fans.
As she releases her new album, Petula Clark, 80, recalls the love affairs, the loneliness and the one lasting regret of her lifetime of fame.
Petula Clark was a star at the age of 11. She starred in the music halls and on BBC radio singing for the troops during WWII. She was a child star in a series of British films from the end of WWII through to the early 1950s.
Petula Clark began as a singing child prodigy. Promoted and tutored by an enthusiastic father, she had started singing professionally at the age of seven and she became a familiar singing voice on wartime radio. By the end of the 1940s she was an established singing artist
I am not really a reminiscing type person,” says Petula Clark. “I am not nostalgic at all.”,
and so perhaps it was not so surprising when during the making of her new album Lost In You, she initially refused to sing Downtown, feeling that 'everything had been done to it'. However, when on her return from working in Paris, she heard the proposed version she loved it.
It is indeed s different tempo from the younger, original version and possibly more suited to the voice of an 80 year old, but Petula has no regrets and I recently heard her point out in an interview that actually it is a very serious song with a social message, as indeed I feel several of her songs have been including
When you're alone and life is making you lonely,... get your tickets...... Petula announces her UK tour
Tickets available at Ticketmaster
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