Dame Vera Lynn set to knock Monkeys off the top of the tree
Everyone is meeting Vera Lynn again! 

This week her newly released album ‘We’ll Meet Again – The Very Best of Vera Lynn’ has shot up the charts, overtaking the likes of Tinchy Stryder, Beyonce, Black Eyed Peas, Calvin Harris and Florence & The Machine. Dame Vera looks set, at 92, to top the charts again, as she did in 1952, with her new Decca album – almost unbelievably knocking the Arctic Monkeys from the No.1 spot.

Reports from Tesco show that more Vera Lynn albums have been sold this week than Arctic Monkeys; a strong indication that she will have the No.1 position – truly a historic moment, coinciding as it does with the anniversary of WWII.

Not only was it seventy years ago that war was declared, it is also seventy years to the month since the 22-year-old Vera visited the Decca studios and first recorded ‘We’ll Meet Again’ (28th September 1939).

This new collection, bringing together 24 of the recordings from her golden years, has enjoyed an instant and phenomenal success, showing that her wartime songs of hope and bittersweet nostalgia have well and truly stood the test of time. They have just as much relevance today as they did back then, when mankind plunged into the madness of WWII. The Vera Lynn spirit has an optimistic and heartening message for all today.

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