“Someday I will kill the man who wrote keep the home fires burning—they play it in the hottest weather, too.”
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Siegfried Sassoon in a letter to musicologist Edward Dent, 1915
Remember when I blogged this? So I just found out who wrote “Keep the Homes Fires Burning.”
Ivor Novello.
With whom Sassoon had an affair in 1924. (via larazontally)
I’d say Sassoon clearly can’t hold a grudge, but the first time he met Ivor Novello he DID flat-out ignore him in petty spite because he hated that song so much. Clearly he got over it though. (via outoflullabies)
#I have never read ‘you wrote that one ear worm I really hate but oops now we’re doing it’ as a meetcute#and I really want to
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