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Vera Lynn dies at 103

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  • #2
    D3V!L
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,710 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    My granny performed with her on stage during the war :)


  • #3
    Gooey Looey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Gooey Looey


    Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?.......

    Context
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl20jlVnvYs


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I do.

    A great age to reach. RIP


  • #5
    Tony H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,527 ✭✭✭Tony H


    R.I.P Vera , always came across as a lovely woman , a genuine lady.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Vera Lynn was at the same level as QE2, she was so popular and magnificent. A great age and leaves a legacy that will go on forever.


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  • #7
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,716 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Vera Lynn was at the same level as QE2, she was so popular and magnificent. A great age and leaves a legacy that will go on forever.

    Seriously why bring a Queen into this ? Magnificent?


  • #8
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,975 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Vera Lynn was at the same level as QE2, she was so popular and magnificent. A great age and leaves a legacy that will go on forever.

    The ship or the other one?


  • #9
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Seriously why bring a Queen into this ? Magnificent?

    Magnificent really isn't the adjective to use when talking about queens, fabulous is the word to use.


  • #10
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,716 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Seamai wrote: »
    Magnificent really isn't the adjective to use when talking about queens, fabulous is the word to use.

    Ha yes, how true.

    Anyhow, don't see how her passing would have much impact on Irish people.


  • #11
    0xzmro3n4y7lb5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 686 ✭✭✭0xzmro3n4y7lb5


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    The ship or the other one?

    I was reading it going that's really bizarre to compare the woman to the ship. :confused:


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  • #12
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,151 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Got any veras?
    Is she the one Pink Floyd sing about on The Wall?


  • #13
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Got any veras?

    Lovely

    Got any salmon?


  • #14
    indioblack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,946 ✭✭✭indioblack


    "It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow".
    R.I.P.


  • #15
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Saw her in a film just the other day from the early 1940s. Great lady by all accounts.

    RIP Dame Vera Lynn.


  • #16
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    RIP. Great lady.


  • #17
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Never heard of her before, but seems like an extraordinary life to have lived.

    There's a lot of rubbish going around at the moment about how useless artists are during times of emergency, but here is a perfect example of an artist who played a crucial role at the worst of times.


  • #18
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    We’ll meet again some sunny day


  • #19
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,183 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    She was one of the few things that was made better by being British, tear down the Churchill statue and replace it with Vera Lynn.....


  • #20
    Lizbeth Delicious Science
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Lizbeth Delicious Science


    She certainly didn't waste her life. A life very well lived.


  • #21
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    In the 90's I used to drink in a pub in Kinsale owned by a gay couple, always great craic, the last song every night was always Vera Lynn singing We'll Meet Again.


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  • #22
    Gooey Looey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Gooey Looey


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Is she the one Pink Floyd sing about on The Wall?

    Yes. She sings the song "we'll meet again" which signifies the end of the war as it was released about that time


  • #23
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,509 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Got any veras?
    Is she the one Pink Floyd sing about on The Wall?

    Yes.
    RIP


  • #24
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,839 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Gooey Looey wrote: »
    Yes. She sings the song "we'll meet again" which signifies the end of the war as it was released about that time

    It's from 1939 and was made famous by Vera Lynn in the 1943 film of the same title. It's not about the end of the war rather the uncertainty of not knowing how long the war would continue for and if the people involved would meet again in person, or in the ever after.


  • #25
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    It's from 1939 and was made famous by Vera Lynn in the 1943 film of the same title. It's not about the end of the war rather the uncertainty of not knowing how long the war would continue for and if the people involved would meet again in person, or in the ever after.

    Her other well-known one is The White Cliffs of Dover, recorded in 1942 about the Battle of Britain. RIP VEra, lovely lady.


  • #26
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Her other well-known one is The White Cliffs of Dover, recorded in 1942 about the Battle of Britain. RIP VEra, lovely lady.

    There’ll be bluebirds over , the white cliffs of dover... such a poignant song especially when you consider many of the troops who would never return would have aeen them as they left the shores forever. RIP to an inspiring and much loved lady and iconic artist.


  • #27
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    we'll meet again was one of the saddest songs ever written


  • #28
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    RIP

    What a lady; dame even. Stayed well clear above any nonsense.

    She was the one who went to some of the worst s**tholes to entertain the troops.


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