| Dame Vera Lynn dies at age 103 on 09:59 - Jun 18 with 866 views | flynnbo |
Lovely voice and gave hope to so many during those dark days. RIP |  | |  |
| Dame Vera Lynn dies at age 103 on 10:06 - Jun 18 with 850 views | colinallcars |
An amazing woman. I watched a TV documentary about her life some years ago. RIP. |  | | |
| Dame Vera Lynn dies at age 103 on 10:08 - Jun 18 with 849 views | CiderwithRsie |
Was very much a voice from the past even in my youngest memories and almost parodicaly associated with a weird sort of nostalgia for the war.
Then I saw Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (which is a work of genius if you've not seen it) which brilliantly uses the old records he remembered from his childhood, the records in his parents' collection. And at the end Vera Lynn comes in with We'll Meet Again and blew my socks off. For the first time I heard it, not as some cheesy old nostalgia for ancient people, but as a song of hope for people who genuinely didn't know if they would see each other gain. Not surprised that one of the few bits of class in the whole British response to Covid was Her Maj referencing it.
(Also reminds me of a thing my mum said when i was seeing her off at the station - she said she didn't like people hanging around on the platform because when she was young people going off weren't necessarily coming back and you didn't say "have a lovely time" because they weren't going to) [Post edited 18 Jun 2020 10:09]
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| Dame Vera Lynn dies at age 103 on 10:13 - Jun 18 with 828 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
| Dame Vera Lynn dies at age 103 on 10:08 - Jun 18 by CiderwithRsie |
Was very much a voice from the past even in my youngest memories and almost parodicaly associated with a weird sort of nostalgia for the war.
Then I saw Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (which is a work of genius if you've not seen it) which brilliantly uses the old records he remembered from his childhood, the records in his parents' collection. And at the end Vera Lynn comes in with We'll Meet Again and blew my socks off. For the first time I heard it, not as some cheesy old nostalgia for ancient people, but as a song of hope for people who genuinely didn't know if they would see each other gain. Not surprised that one of the few bits of class in the whole British response to Covid was Her Maj referencing it.
(Also reminds me of a thing my mum said when i was seeing her off at the station - she said she didn't like people hanging around on the platform because when she was young people going off weren't necessarily coming back and you didn't say "have a lovely time" because they weren't going to) [Post edited 18 Jun 2020 10:09]
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