{"id":40928,"count":1,"description":"\"Vera\" is a song by Pink Floyd which appears on their 1979 album, The Wall. The title is a reference to Vera Lynn, a British singer who came to prominence during World War II with her popular song \"We'll Meet Again\". The reference is ironic, as Roger Waters (and his fictional character \"Pink\") would not meet his father, lost in the war. The lyric \"Vera, what has become of you?\" suggests that Vera Lynn herself, like her promise, vanished.\nThe opening dialogue (\"Where the hell are you, Simon?\") and the sound effects are from the 1969 film The Battle of Britain.\nThe film version of Pink Floyd The Wall opens with a snippet of Vera Lynn singing \"The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot\", a song about a boy \u2014 like Roger Waters \u2014 without a father. In addition, in The Wall Live, the first track opens with Lynn's \"We'll Meet Again\" instead of the snippet of \"Outside the Wall\" that plays on the album.\nRoger Waters performed the song as an encore on his 2006 and 2007 Dark Side of the Moon Live...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/vera\/","name":"Vera","slug":"vera","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/40928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=40928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}