British World War II-era vocalist Vera Lynn died this morning. She was 103.
Lynn was name-checked in Roger Waters‘s “Vera,” which appeared on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” (1979).
The song opens with the lyric, “Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?” The song also references one of her most famous songs: “We’ll Meet Again.”
Her recording of “The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot” plays during the opening of the film “Pink Floyd The Wall” (1982).
I wish the band could have arranged for Vera to have gone on tour in 79 and let her sing her war ballads giving the band a break and reminding the rest of us there was a time when the world came together and united in a common cause of freedom and survival.