Vera Lynn - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Both Lynn and "We'll Meet Again" are featured in Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall. They are directly cited in the track "Vera". In the live version of The Wall, Is There Anybody Out There: The Wall Live 1980–1981, "We'll Meet Again" opens the concert before the show starts. It serves as a link between band member Roger Waters and his father, who was killed during World War II. The film The Wall begins with Lynn singing "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot".
• Lynn and the words "We'll meet again some day" are mentioned in The Kinks' song "Mr. Churchill Says" on their 1969 album "Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)".
• The final scene of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove features "We'll Meet Again" playing as many nuclear explosions are set off.
• One of the episodes of the TV documentary series The World at War is named after one of Lynn's songs "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow", which dealt with the Burma Campaign. Ms. Lynn herself reminisced visiting the British troops in Burma, and a snippet of the song is included amidst the struggles of the British Forces in dealing with the mud and the monsoon.
• In Gary Numan's song "War Songs", there is a line that reads "Old men love war songs, love Vera Lynn. Old men love war songs, now I'm Vera Lynn."
• In the British campaign of Call of Duty 3, there are two SAS Jeeps. One is named "Vera", and the other is named "Lynn".
• Scottish band Travis have a song called "U16 Girls" with the following line: "I met a girl in Paris, she talked like Vera Lynn."
• During a Street Talk segment on The AFL Footy Show in 2009, an elderly Englishman claiming to be Vera Lynn's brother appeared before Sam Newman on the streets of St Kilda. Although there was no way to prove his claim, it was expected to be true because of his striking physical resemblance as well as his knowledge of her songs.
• The DC Comics character Vera Lynn Black is named after her.
• In the movie Hellboy, during Professor Broom's confrontation with Rasputin, a recording of Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" plays in the background (according to the closed-captioning).
• The name Vera Lynn is cockney rhyming slang for "skin", a cigarette paper used for roll-ups. This was immortalised in the song "Ebeneezer Goode" by the Shamen with the line "Anyone got any Veras? Lovely!" It is also slang for "bin".
• The punk band the Sex Pistols are noted for coming onstage to the Lynn version of the song "There'll Always Be an England". It is also the name of their only live DVD.
• English rock band The Libertines used Lynn's song "We'll Meet Again" as their walk-on music during their 2010 reunion concerts.
• Lynn is the subject of "The Yip! Song" by Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians.
• Lynn is mentioned among several memories of the Second World War in the graphic novel When the Wind Blows and the animated film adaptation.
• In an episode of 'Allo 'Allo, Herr Flick bugs General von Klinkerhoffen's golf bag. When trying to pick up what the General is saying, Lynn's "White Cliffs of Dover" is heard, leaving Herr Flick to remark, That damn woman, she gets everywhere. In an earlier episode, Herr Flick finds in his collection of Gestapo records, while looking for an English course, "There will be big bombers over the white cliffs of Dover tomorrow, JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE!", sung by Goering.
• "We'll Meet Again" is played at the close of The Singing Detective.
• The character of Lynn Minmay in the anime series Super Dimension Fortress Macross is based on Vera Lynn.
• In the Futurama episode "A Big Piece of Garbage" Lynn's song "We'll Meet Again" is sung over the closing credits.
• In the 1984 film The Hit, "We'll Meet Again" is sung by the gangsters on trial to witness Terence Stamp as he leaves the courtroom. It serves as a way of telling Stamp's character that he is a marked man for testifying against his friends.