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Vera Lynn, voice of hope in wartime Britain, dies at 103
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canoe.com“EVERYONE PULLED TOGETHER”Ironically, Lynn’s biggest hit had a German title and came after the war. “Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart,” backed by a soldiers’ chorus, sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and made Lynn the first British performer to top the U.S.
hit parade.The song made her a star in the United States in the 1950s. But the noisy advent of rock and roll eventually elbowed aside her more sedate brand of nostalgia.In 1975 – amid a chorus of press disapproval that it had taken so long – Vera Lynn was given the title of Dame of the British Empire.Always modest about her contribution to Britain’s wartime effort, she told an interviewer in 1984: “Everyone pulled together and tried to live their lives as normally as possible.”Lynn.
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