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."
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