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Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces Sweetheart by Lis Seddon 4 Sept 2009
Vera Lynn20 March 1917 12 noon London51N30' 00W10'
Vera Lynn has just become the oldest person to have an album at the top of the charts. Her ' We'll meet again' reached no 1 over the week-end, overtaking the Beatles' new release.
Vera Lynn was born in London on 20 March 1917, time not known. I am not surprised to see so many planets ( five ) in Pisces and all of them making a trine aspect to Saturn in Cancer. These planets indicate the artistic inclination and her ability to manifest it and make it her 'work'. This is further helped by the trine aspect from Mars and the Sun to Neptune. This aspect shows that she has a sympathetic understanding of peoples' suffering and will feel inspired to do something about it. This is also indicated by the inclusion of Chiron in that Pisces stellium. I expect that the Jupiter square to Neptune will have created some difficulties for her at times, around confusion and un-groundedness. Particularly as she has no planets in earth at all. Not having her time of birth I don't know if this is offset by an earth ascendant or houses. It may be that this apparent vulnerability led to her being so loved.
She toured Burma & gave outdoor concerts for soldiers. In 1942 she recorded the Ross Parker/Hughie Charles song "We'll Meet Again" while making the film of the same name. The nostalgic lyrics ("We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day") had a great appeal to the many people separated from loved ones during the war, & it became one of the emblematic songs of the wartime period. After the war, her "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" became the first record by a British artist to top the US charts, doing so for nine weeks. "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart", along with "The Homing Waltz" & "Forget-Me-Not" gave Lynn a remarkable three entries on the first UK Singles Chart. Vera was appointed an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1969 & a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1975. In 1976 a charity dedicated to funding breast cancer research was founded, Lynn being its chair and later its president. She sang outside Buckingham Palace in 1995 in a ceremony marking the golden jubilee of VE Day. Lynn, then 78, decided to go out on a high as this is her last known public performance. In 2002 at the age of 85 she became the president of the cerebral palsy charity SOS & hosted a celebrity concert on their behalf at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Vera Lynn, born Birth name Vera Margaret Welch, is a British singer whose career flourished during World War II, when she was nicknamed "The Forces' Sweetheart". She is best known for the popular songs "We'll Meet Again", written by Ross Parker & Hughie Charles, and "The White Cliffs of Dover", words by Nat Burton, music by Walter Kent. She is one of the last surviving major entertainers of the war years. Lynn was born Vera Margaret Welch on March 20, 1917 in East Ham, London. Later she adopted her grandmother's maiden name Lynn as her stage name. She began singing at the age of seven. Her first radio broadcast, with the Joe Loss Orchestra, was made in 1935. At this point she was being featured on records released by dance bands including Loss's and Charlie Kunz's. In 1936 she made her first solo record on the Crown label:- "Up the Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire". This label was soon swallowed up by Decca. After a short stint with Lossshe stayed with Kunz for a few years during which she waxed several standards. She later moved to the aristocrat of British dance bands, Bert Ambrose.Lynn married clarinettist and saxophonist Harry Lewis in 1939, the year World War II broke out. In 1940 she began her own radio series, "Sincerely Yours", sending messages to British troops stationed abroad. In this radio show she & a quartet performed the songs most requested to her by soldiers stationed abroad. She also went into hospitals to interview new mothers & send messages to their husbands overseas.
P.S. Dame Vera Lynn's Lifetime Achievement Award by Lis Seddon 13th October 2009 Dame Vera Lynn was honoured last night with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her commitment and ongoing voluntary involvement to her many charities. She was the nation's sweetheart and travelled all over the world to support our forces during Worl War II. Since then she has been a dedicated supporter of many charitable organisations and shows no signs of giving up even at her great age of 92. I heard her being interviewed this morning and she still sounds as bright as ever. A very well deserved award indeed!Last night, when Dame Vera received the award, transiting Venus was coming up to an exact conjunction to Saturn at 28 degrees Virgo (service to others). Her natal Sun/Chiron conjunction is at 27-29 Pisces, in exact opposition to the Venus-Saturn. This to me illustrates the award perfectly. The honour bestowed for her hard work and dedication (Saturn) that she expressed (Sun) through her music (Venus) to those who were victims of war etc. (Sun/Chiron in Pisces
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