I enjoyed music and humour on a Singapore Airlines Flight. The first film I watched was the history of You'll Never Walk Alone.
You'll Never Walk Alone
The song was written by Rogers and Hammerstein for the musical Carousel. Gerry and the Pacemakers, a Liverpool band, recorded it. They sang it at a football match in Liverpool and it was so popular that it became a regular song at Liverpool's matches, home and away, and spread to other football matches worldwide.
The film includes interesting material on the Hillsborough (football stadium) disaster, in which fans tragically died.
According to the film, the Sun newspaper, instead of joining in the local and nationwide mourning, blamed football fans for stealing from the dead. The Liverpudlians were so angry that for years afterwards many refused to buy the newspaper.
In addition to other musical tours of Liverpool (including the Cavern and the statue of the Beatles), you can see statues at the football stadium.
You'll Never Walk Alone summed up the need of the bereaved, feeling alone, without their nearest and dearest, needing to feel the comfort of the crowd.
After all that tragedy, I felt in need of some light relief.
Rowan Atkinson, who I remember most as the hapless Mr Bean, appeared in his new persona as a detective or spy defending the Prime Minister. Lots of absurd slapstick, culminating in a scene at a Scottish castle where Rowan Atkinson's character stumbles about in a suit of armour causing predictable disasters, all the funnier because you smile in anticipation.
After that I went back to music, the highlight of my flight (what a pun!) was the film about Queen and Freddie Mercury.
The promotion for the film points out that he started his career as a baggage handler at Heathrow in London!
The mystery of his having an ex-wife despite being so gay and getting aids, was explained. Simple really. He marries his sweetheart. He goes off on tour. Gets lonely. is propositioned by a male. Gets into drugs, orgies. Anything goes. Everything goes. He gets aids and dies. Meanwhile she has married a nice stable guy - who has the girl 24/7 but cannot compete with the memory of Freddie Mercury who can still summon his ex-wife when he learns he is dying.
What more can Wikipedia add? Usefully, the places where you can see mementoes of Freddie mercury.
Sites To Visit
Statue of Freddie Mercury at Montreux, Switzerland.
Plaque to Queen.
Gerry & The Pacemakers singing You'll Never Walk Alone on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5_LQArLa0
Freddie Mercury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(band)
http://www.queenonline.com/
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
You'll Never Walk Alone
The song was written by Rogers and Hammerstein for the musical Carousel. Gerry and the Pacemakers, a Liverpool band, recorded it. They sang it at a football match in Liverpool and it was so popular that it became a regular song at Liverpool's matches, home and away, and spread to other football matches worldwide.
The film includes interesting material on the Hillsborough (football stadium) disaster, in which fans tragically died.
According to the film, the Sun newspaper, instead of joining in the local and nationwide mourning, blamed football fans for stealing from the dead. The Liverpudlians were so angry that for years afterwards many refused to buy the newspaper.
In addition to other musical tours of Liverpool (including the Cavern and the statue of the Beatles), you can see statues at the football stadium.
You'll Never Walk Alone summed up the need of the bereaved, feeling alone, without their nearest and dearest, needing to feel the comfort of the crowd.
After all that tragedy, I felt in need of some light relief.
Rowan Atkinson, who I remember most as the hapless Mr Bean, appeared in his new persona as a detective or spy defending the Prime Minister. Lots of absurd slapstick, culminating in a scene at a Scottish castle where Rowan Atkinson's character stumbles about in a suit of armour causing predictable disasters, all the funnier because you smile in anticipation.
After that I went back to music, the highlight of my flight (what a pun!) was the film about Queen and Freddie Mercury.
The promotion for the film points out that he started his career as a baggage handler at Heathrow in London!
The mystery of his having an ex-wife despite being so gay and getting aids, was explained. Simple really. He marries his sweetheart. He goes off on tour. Gets lonely. is propositioned by a male. Gets into drugs, orgies. Anything goes. Everything goes. He gets aids and dies. Meanwhile she has married a nice stable guy - who has the girl 24/7 but cannot compete with the memory of Freddie Mercury who can still summon his ex-wife when he learns he is dying.
What more can Wikipedia add? Usefully, the places where you can see mementoes of Freddie mercury.
Sites To Visit
Statue of Freddie Mercury at Montreux, Switzerland.
Plaque to Queen.
Gerry & The Pacemakers singing You'll Never Walk Alone on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5_LQArLa0
Freddie Mercury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(band)
http://www.queenonline.com/
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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