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Dame Vera Lynn - wishing you a very Happy 100th Birthday

cherryorchard
cherryorchard Posts: 1,721
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What an amazing lady:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMUuuaUGff0

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  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Happy Birthday Vera
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Loved her in Corrie
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Happy birthday
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    Happy birthday x
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Dads Funeral 3 years ago...the moment they played "we'll meet again" at his request in his will, was the moment I broke down, was quite composed up until that point. Dad too would have been 100 on May 4th, Amazing lady from a quite surreal time by today's standards.
  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    By all accounts a lovely lady. Happy birthday Dame Vera.

    One of my late Dad's absolute favourites too
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    edited March 2017
    I'm very lucky to have been to Dame Vera's house, maybe 15 years ago, where she made us tea after we had recorded a television interview. She couldn't understand the fuss that was being made of her, and said "I'm just a singer from the East End".

    Also interviewed her about 10 years ago in The Churchill War Rooms, and afterwards she chatted to me and the producer for forty minutes, regaling us with stories from the war: about driving home after shows during bombing raids, about driving into Malayan forests in a small van with a piano and a pianist (and a bottle of whiskey), looking for some troops to entertain. It was more like talking to a 20 something at a party than talking to a ninety year old!

    She remains one of the nicest and most interesting people I've met in 30+ years 'on the road'.
  • sralan
    sralan Posts: 2,031
    Happy Birthday Dane Vera, a true British icon.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    Many Happy Returns Dame V
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    The Blue Birds are still flying high .. many happy returns to the Forces Sweetheart .. would we have won the war without you ? ((:>)
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  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Congratulations on the ton and many happy returns!
  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,721
    JamesSeed said:

    I'm very lucky to have been to Dame Vera's house, maybe 15 years ago, where she made us tea after we had recorded a television interview. She couldn't understand the fuss that was being made of her, and said "I'm just a singer from the East End".

    Also interviewed her about 10 years ago in The Churchill War Rooms, and afterwards she chatted to me and the producer for forty minutes, regaling us with stories from the war: about driving home after shows during bombing raids, about driving into Malayan forests in a small van with a piano and a pianist (and a bottle of whiskey), looking for some troops to entertain. It was more like talking to a 20 something at a party than talking to a ninety year old!

    She remains one of the nicest and most interesting people I've met in 30+ years on the road'.

    Would highly recommend reading 'The Longest Night 10-11 May 1941: Voices from the London Blitz' by Gavin Mortimer

    He describes that night from the viewpoint of the people (from all walks of life and all ages) who endured it. Included in it is Vera Lynn who was performing at the Palladium.


  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    Entertainment royalty.

    Very few, if any, equals in terms of her enduring profile and the love she has from the British people.

    Many happy returns Dame Vera.
  • clivey_hero
    clivey_hero Posts: 328
    God bless her
    we'll meet again
  • HantsAddick
    HantsAddick Posts: 2,423
    Congrats to her on her 100th. Hope she has her card from the Queen. Many Happy Returns Dame Vera.
  • Welly
    Welly Posts: 493
    Happy Birthday to a truly great English lady, and from the east end.
  • addickfanatic
    addickfanatic Posts: 1,113
    A true national treasure, happy birthday Dame Vera
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Inspiring figure for a generation, but a terrible ornithologist. Happy Birthday.
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    Stig said:

    Inspiring figure for a generation, but a terrible ornithologist. Happy Birthday.

    She didn't write it, the blinkin' yanks did! [No bluebirds in UK]
  • captainbob
    captainbob Posts: 942
    I wrote to her last year on behalf of my pupils, regarding a project about the war I was running and what with the updates which I sent her, she replied three times and included with her letters, a signed photograph. I felt a bit uncomfortable writing more than once but her letters expressed such interest and gratitude that I genuinely believe she welcomed our news. A wonderful lady. Happy Birthday.
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  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    edited March 2017
    Happy 100th birthday Dame Vera the Forces Sweetheart. She was invaluable for the forces moral during some dark days in WW2. A truly British icon.

    Same as Tel posted above I too had 'we'll meet again' played at my Normandy Veteran Dad's funeral nine years ago; he would have been 99 this May, 75 years an Addick.

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