The Lights Are Much Brighter Thereyou Can Forget All Your Troubles,Forget All Your Cares

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The words of Petula Clark's biggest hit Downtown could well be about Wales, the place where she says she felt 'normal' for the first time in her life. We accompanied her on an emotional return home

WITH nearly 70 million recordings sold worldwide, Petula Clark is one of the biggest selling British female solo artists of the 20th Century.

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The Lights Are Much Brighter Thereyou Can Forget All Your Troubles,Forget All Your Cares

She's been a star since childhood and has also found success on the stage and the big screen.

But for all those wonderful experiences and achievements, Petula admits that her memories of childhood visits to Wales are among her fondest.

The 74-year-old performer was sent to Abercanaid in the South Wales Valleys when she was just seven years old, escaping the blitz to grow up under the watchful eyes of her grandparents William John Phillips and Jane Rees.

And even as her career was taking off with more than 200 shows for the forc...

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