Let’s backtrack — way back — to Petula as a child starlet in war-torn England. Here she is at 10 with her father, Leslie Clark. Open the audio player to hear a bit of her singing on the BBC for her uncle, a soldier stationed in, yes, Iraq.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/MAR07/Petula1942.mp3]This is how the English came to know Petula Clark, and she just couldn’t shake this image until she moved to France, nearly 20 years later.
P.S. That’s a rosary that sweet young Petula is wearing around her neck. Technically, in the Catholic Faith, you are not allowed to wear them this way. You can get bracelet-types to wear that can be doubled as portable rosaries. Molly knows the rosary prayer by heart and it is very long and repetitive. Oddly, it does sort of put you into a trance-like sleep. One night I was very nervous and she said the rosary for me over and over. On the fifth try, I was out like a light!
Rupert Murdoch is Australian.
How sweet! Makes me want to cry. No wonder the Brits wouldn’t let Pet grow up. I think that the British are second only to us in celebrity worship. However, the tabloids DID start over there, and came over here with Rupert Murdoch, I believe.