Singer Tom Jones, who turned 84 on June 7, gave a moving performance on June 6, 2024 during the D-Day commemorations in Ver-sur-mer, in Calvados, in the presence of King Charles III and President Emmanuel Macron.
The British singer performed a song called I won’t fall apart with you if you fall (I won’t collapse with you if you fall.) This song, with hymn accents, appears on Tom Jones’ album, surrounded by timereleased in April 2021. It is a cover of a song by African American activist Bernice Johnson Reagon. I won’t fall apart with you if you fall appeared on the album Put Your Hands in the Fight: The Evolution of a Freedom Fighter of the activist, in 1975.
Those who never came home
Other artists performed during this ceremony, in the presence of British veterans. We were able to hear the actor Martin Freeman reading the letter of a soldier who participated in the Landings. “I want to pay tribute to those who did not survive, may they rest in peace,” he concluded.
King Charles III also spoke in French and English and paid tribute to the soldiers “who never returned home.” The king, whose mother, Queen Elizabeth, had worked in the war as a mechanic, quoted the words of his grandfather, the then-reigning King George VI.
Source: BFM TV
