1960s music was almost as popular in the 1980s as it was in the 1960s. During the Reagan years, 1960s songs like The Beatles’ ...

A songwriter wrote Petula Clark's "Downtown" because he disliked the title of one of Phil Spector's girl group songs.

How did the United States got into the foreign aid business, and what does that means for us and the world? “The people are actually starving and living in ruins,” the Evening Star of Washington ...

Petula Dvorak is a columnist for The Washington Post’s local team. Her previous article was “Why Kamala, Hillary, Nancy, but not Joe, Donald or Barack?”.

Petula Dvorak is a columnist for The Washington Post's local team who writes about homeless shelters, gun control, high heels, high school choirs, the politics of parenting, jails, abortion ...

Sixty years ago, on Jan. 23, 1965, "Downtown" reached the top of the U.S. charts and made Petula Clark a star. The tune told of escaping the drone of daily life by spending time in the heart of ...

January 22, 2025 • Petula Clark's single "Downtown" hit the number one spot on the US billboard charts 60 years ago, on January 23, 1965, and stayed there for two weeks. At 92, she's planning a ...

Petula Clark had a pretty decent run after “Downtown,” charting with bright and friendly studio-pop songs through most of the ’60s. None of those songs were anywhere near as good as ...

Clay’s $250,000 suit, filed in March, claims that she was fired by then-city spokesperson Petula Burks after objecting to Burks’ alleged violations of Virginia’s FOIA. According to Clay and ...

About the Album: All of Petula Clark's festive recordings from the 1950s - a selection of traditional carols alongside a sprinkling of original Christmas songs. Includes two previously unreleased ...

The girlfriend of a suicide bomber who detonated his RV in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day alerted police he was making explosives inside the vehicle more than a year before the attack, police ...

Singer Petula Clark to go on new world tour aged 85 two years after last UK performance ...