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...And so, although protocol means the likes of Vera Lynn or Fred Astaire songs, or numbers from her favourite musicals (such as Show Boat, Oklahoma!...
...Monday EU, foreign affairs council meets in Brussels with discussions including the Ukrainian crisis UK, a service of thanksgiving for British wartime singer Vera Lynn to be held at London’s Westminster...
...Vera Lynn’s uplifting lyrics may have made her the “forces’ sweetheart” but they rarely feature in diplomatic manuals....
...The singer Vera Lynn, Britain’s “forces sweetheart” during the second world war, has died at the age of 103....
...We’d sing Dame Vera Lynn songs and hug all those neighbours we’d glimpsed during the weekly NHS clap. It didn’t quite pan out like that, of course....
...Boris Johnson was channelling his inner Vera Lynn as he borrowed a sentiment from the wartime singer for his Conservative party conference speech....
...But while his 94-year-old grandmother has been rallying the people with optimistic speeches to the words of Vera Lynn, and his two-year-old nephew has been clapping for key workers and handprinting NHS-supporting...
...The United Nations, the IMF and the World Bank were born in 1944-5, not long after Vera Lynn sang about meeting again....
...Dame Vera Lynn, now 103, is not alone in invoking the spirit of the Blitz “when we all pulled together and looked after each other”. All myths contain an element of truth or they cannot be sustained....
...The Queen understood this when, in her recent address to the UK, she said, echoing Vera Lynn’s second world war song: “We will meet again”....
...Who knew that after the fall of Singapore, the BBC took Vera Lynn off the air for a time because of a concern that the forces sweetheart’s “sloppy songs” were undermining the nation’s fighting spirit?...
...That would be held back for the performer’s teary, cathartic swan song, though I can’t believe it turned into the full Vera Lynn singalong depicted here....
...She draws from literature (Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, Precious Bane by Mary Webb), music (the campy patriotism of Vera Lynn) and, of course, other artists....
...Playwright Lynn Nottage has forged a career that has encompassed two Pulitzers, prizes and Broadway transfers by depicting a different kind of America....
...The eponymous heroine of this 2011 comedy by Lynn Nottage is a maid in early 1930s Hollywood. But, like everyone else in Tinseltown, what she really wants is to be in the movies....
...They grew up with the Rolling Stones rather than Vera Lynn. They are even, we are told, still having sex....
...Matthew Engel begins his inquiry into “the American conquest of English” with an unlikely culprit: Dame Vera Lynn. There are not and never have been “bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover”....
...The stoutly pragmatic Vera Brittain wails in mock-despair: “Why, why must social reform and political intelligence . . . be associated with shiny noses & unwashed hair?”...
...Clark was the first British woman to top the US charts since Vera Lynn’s “Auf Wiederseh’n, Sweetheart” in 1952. “Downtown” is a perfect example of Anglo-Americana....
...Vera Lynn....
...The opposition was led by Charlie Elphicke, the Conservative MP for Dover, and backed by Dame Vera Lynn, best known for her second world war hits “The White Cliffs of Dover” and “We’ll Meet Again”....
...Mister Tom’s dog Sammy comes to life with some wonderfully detailed puppetry, and the period is conjured in Vera Lynn songs, woollens and tweeds, and boys who say “wizard”....
...He managed to gain a foothold in the commercial world, illustrating features for the Sunday Times magazine, and designing album covers (including one, extraordinarily, for the estimable Vera Lynn)....
...The pianist Jack Honeyborne is coming down again for the festival with his trio – he’s in his eighties and he was musical director for Vera Lynn and performed with Peggy Lee....
...Lynn....
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