Big Quote by Vera Lynn

During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point during the…

— Steven Berkoff

I have been gigging around Glasgow and Edinburgh since I was 12. I played in pubs at that age, even though I obviously was…

— Lewis Capaldi

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the…

— James Stockdale

I was never part of the Bristol scene. My sound was a Knowle West sound. Massive Attack wouldn't come to my area because they…

— Tricky

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

— Alan Rickman

I found myself in Zurich Airport. I'd done a TV show, oddly enough, with Mavis Staples. That's the way they do it in Switzerland.…

— Nick Lowe

Everyone remembers where they were on 7 July 2005 when four deadly bombs ripped through the heart of London.

— Keir Starmer

I grew up in London, a city devastated by the bombing. I am, you might say, a Blitz Baby.

— David Jason

I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it.

— Damir Dokic

I saw the bombs, and, like a kid, I looked back at them. Instantly there was fire everywhere.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

— Kenneth Williams

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put…

— Jerry Reed