"Perhaps it's fitting that Al Bowlly's death is as well-remembered as his life, or rather, as his voice. After all, his most celebrated appearance in popular culture wasn't physical, but spectral. In Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), when Jack Torrance enters the ballroom and the ballad titled Midnight, the Stars and You (1934) plays, the film reaches one of its most memorable moments."
"The sweet voice of Al Bowlly (1899-1941) the most popular singer in the United Kingdom of the 1930s left as much of an impression on the public as his violent and early death. He was only 41 when he died in London on April 17, 1941. He was killed during the Blitz, the intense bombing raids by Nazi Germany on the U.K. between September 1940 and May 1941."
Al Bowlly was the most popular singer in the United Kingdom during the 1930s, renowned for a sweet voice that left a lasting impression. His recording Midnight, the Stars and You appears in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, creating a ghostly, melancholic-cum-violent atmosphere. Bowlly recorded the political song When That Man Is Dead and Gone in 1941, in which he compared Adolf Hitler to Satan and fantasized about celebrations after Hitler's death. He died at age 41 in London on April 17, 1941, killed during the Blitz. Weeks earlier his colleague Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson also perished in a bombing.
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