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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Harrowby Hall on June 18, 2020, 09:50:08 AM

Title: Goodbye Vera Lynn
Post by: Harrowby Hall on June 18, 2020, 09:50:08 AM

Goodbye Vera Lynn - a nightingale did sing in Berkeley Square.

Title: Re: Goodbye Vera Lynn
Post by: Roses on June 18, 2020, 10:39:32 AM

At 103 she had a good innings.

It's a lovely day tomorrow
Tomorrow is a lovely day
Come and feast your tear dimmed eyes
On tomorrow's clear blue skies
If today your heart is weary
If ev'ry little thing looks gray
Just forget your troubles and learn to say
Tomorrow is a lovely day
It's a lovely day tomorrow
Tomorrow is a lovely day
Come and feast your tear dimmed eyes
On tomorrow's clear blue skies
If today your heart is weary
If ev'ry little thing looks gray
Just forget your troubles and learn to say
Tomorrow is a lovely day

Title: Re: Goodbye Vera Lynn
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 18, 2020, 05:29:19 PM

Vera Lynn and Lemmy


https://www.nme.com/blogs/dame-vera-lynn-tribute-hawkwind-lemmy-2690867?fbclid=IwAR2M33VNKKdWRmIcV6zVrygtZrdf9UU9818Am1ziuFOMbH490NZcdtP2QBc

Title: Re: Goodbye Vera Lynn
Post by: Roses on July 10, 2020, 12:17:52 PM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-53337459

Vera Lynn had a good send off today, two spitfires flew over her funeral procession.

Title: Re: Goodbye Vera Lynn
Post by: Steve H on July 10, 2020, 12:46:22 PM

There was a thread about her on my other forum, where the point was made that she was not a glamour-puss, unlike the pulchritudinous Anne Shelton, (https://collectionimages.npg.org.uk/large/mw58831/Anne-Shelton-Patricia-Jacqueline-Reid-ne-Sibley.jpg) but was pretty in a toothy, wholesome, girl-next-door kind of way. Shelton and others were the glamorous young women the young soldiers, sailors and airmen would wank themselves to sleep with fantasies of, but Vera was the girl they wanted to marry. When she appeared with the Spice Girls in the 90s, she suggested that she should be called Old Spice.