Petula Clark is a singer, songwriter, actress and performer whose remarkable career spans more than eight decades - the longest of any British entertainer. She first stepped into the limelight as a child during WWII, singing to the troops on wartime radio and in concert, before appearing in a string of films. After a series of UK hit records in the 1950s, Petula followed her heart, and her future husband Claude Wolff, to France, where she became that countrys most popular female vocalist. She then became an international superstar when she topped the charts for the first time in the US with D