Pageant master hopes to start nationwide singalong to mark 80 years since VE Day A pageant master for Queen Elizabeth II is aiming to create a nationwide singalong to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day and help “bring the nation together”.
Mr Peek, who staged the Millennium Beacon project, was made an OBE in 2000 and became a Commander of the Royal Victoria Order (RVO) in 2022, but he said seeing the nation sing together would be his “biggest achievement”.
“I just felt there must be something that can bring people together that doesn’t have any political, religious or any other overtones, that people can sing with a simple heart without feeling they are being pressured to sing it for somebody else.
Bruno Peek, 74, from Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk, masterminded worldwide beacon tributes for the late Queen’s golden, diamond and platinum jubilees, and has now set his sights on commemorating the 80th anniversary since the end of the Second World War in Europe.
“They’re singing it for them (the fallen soldiers) but what they’re doing by singing for them, they’re singing it together.
