The War On Terror Anthem Contest
THEY’LL be blue rinses over Dame Vera Lynn’s 90th birthday party.
There will also be Cilla Black’s vivid red, Dame Edna Everage’s electric mauve and Ronnie Corbett dressed as Rupert Bear.
At a time of life when most of an age are on a charabanc to Blackpool and being wheeled into the friendship club for afternoon bridge, Vera is having a party at London’s Hertford House.
“Just think,” says Dame Edna to Hello!, “this wonderful, lively, beautiful woman actually won the war.”
Not the War On Terror, silly, but the Second World War. Singers on the X Factor and even American Idol should note that while they seek to impress Simon Cowell, Vera took on Hitler. And she won.
As Rolf Harris says: “She’s a remarkable example for anybody in the music industry.”
Dame Vera, fresh from a reception in her honour at London’s Imperial War Museum, thanks her younger peers for attending.
And then they serenade her with a hopeful rendition of We’ll Meet Again.
It was Dame Vera’s biggest and most enduring hit. Every big push needs its official anthem and hers was the tune of the Second World War.
And we wonder what song Vera could sing for this ensuing War On Terror?
Answers to the usual address…
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March 28th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
When England WAS England.Long before all this PC bullshit.Before mugging came to the streets of London,before Yardie criminals and Nigerians help to fill up English prison cells.The days when you could walk around the streets and never dream or a knife or gun culture and bloody hoodies.
The days when teachers were respected and putting on an England shirt was something truly special.Before Tony Blair came into this world ,and when there were streets parties,neigbourly friendliness,and a feeling of goodness about being English in England.
England today, as Trevor Phillips stated is sleep walking to aparthied and it has become a very materialistic country with distrust and out-for-number-one attitudes everywhere.
It won`t be long become the people take to the streets.The voice of Vera Lynn has historic significance but the voice of the English people will be even greater some day in the future and it will shake the establishment like its never been shaken before!
March 28th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Dixie?
March 28th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
‘We CAN’T Work It Out’? ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’?
She’s an institution. Rolf’s quote could be taken differently though. A remarkable example of WHAT precisely?