Dame Vera hits out at pop stars
DAME Vera Lynn has bemoaned the lack of singers backing troops in Afghanistan.
The 92-year-old We'll Meet Again singer – who travelled as far as Burma, Egypt and India to entertain the troops during the Second World War – questioned why modern pop stars were not going to the same lengths.
She said: "It's strange that there aren't any special songs for Afghanistan. I don't know what songwriters are doing these days. Nowadays a lot of them can't sing unless they've got all their equipment, and it's not easy carting that stuff around in the jungle."
Email to a friend
Print this page- Family mourn death of Glasgow ‘fight’ schoolboy
- Rangers takeover: Duff & Phelps threaten legal action against BBC
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- Rangers administration: Fans fear Duff & Phelps claims could scare off Green
- Rangers takeover: triple penalty punishment enough, says Johnston
- Alistair Darling leads ‘No to independence’ fight over tea and biscuits
- Scottish independence: SNP flip-flops over Nato
- Scottish Independence: SNP ‘won’t be Yes campaign’s only voice’
- Today’s youth not fit to be employed, says car firm Arnold Clark
- Scottish independence: ‘People here are best qualified to run Scotland’
Looking for...
Featured advertisers
Jobs
Search for a job
Motors
Search for a car
Property
Search for a house
Weather for Edinburgh
Saturday 26 May 2012
Today
Sunny
Temperature: 8 C to 20 C
Wind Speed: 16 mph
Wind direction: North east
Tomorrow
Sunny
Temperature: 11 C to 21 C
Wind Speed: 10 mph
Wind direction: North east
