B.E.F.

“It is perhaps fortunate that the B.E.F. is so good at retreating,” wrote Harold Nicolson in his diary, “since that is what it mostly has to do.”

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News came through at midday that the Command of the B.E.F. passed from G.H.Q. to 1st Corps at 1800 hours on May 31st.

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While I have no immediate proof for or against, it would be interesting to see if the B.E.F. issued or at least condoned shotguns as part of unit tables of equipment.

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I'd sing solitaire for the B.E.F. But who wants to be with them, anyway?

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I'd sing "Solitaire" for the B.E.F. But who wants to be with them, anyway?

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He served as a medical officer in the First World War with the B.E.F. His graduate training in surgery was at Peter Brent Brigham Hospital in Boston and later he went through the entire residency program at Washington University.

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By early April, adding in "Let's Stay Together" and "1984," the Bowie song from the B.E.F. sessions (and, for Europe only, the Crusaders 'version of "Help"), Davies had an album's worth of tracks.

I Tina Turner, Tina 1952

EMI got excited -- B.E.F., in its alternate incarnation as Heaven 17, was one of the hottest new groups in the country.

I Tina Turner, Tina 1952

He called EMI in London, to which Tina was still signed for the British market, and pitched the possibility of working with B.E.F. again.

I Tina Turner, Tina 1952

Slotted in among the other one-off tracks on the B.E.F. album, Music of Quality and Distinction, Tina's performance of "Ball of Confusion" blew away memories of the old Revue days and repositioned her as an up-to-the-minute artist before an adventurous young audience that revered black R & B but loved all the new musical technology as well.

I Tina Turner, Tina 1952