My hero Hubert Gregg died on Monday at 89. His best-remembered song is probably Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, but he may not thank me for revelaing he also wote the rude words to Colonel Bogey, which I'm sure made a big contribution to the war effort in WWII.

Here's the BBC's obit, and theres a lot more on the 'Net if you Google for his name.

I've just learned the whole of I'm going to get lit up when the lights go up in London, so it will make a decent tribute. It anticipated a night of drunkenness in the capital - provoking a protest in the Commons. Lady Astor (a US ex-pat), asked if this was "the disgraceful way Britons were going to behave" and Prime Minister Winston Churchill replied he was confident "we shall celebrate a victorious peace in a way worthy of the British nation." Another kind of fitting tribute!

Steve