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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/brenda-joins-chelsea-pensioners.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Chelsea Pensioners have picked Brenda Sokell, 62, to join the race for the Christmas number one" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-brenda-joins-chelsea-pensioners.jpg" alt="The Chelsea Pensioners have picked Brenda Sokell, 62, to join the race for the Christmas number one"/></a></p>
<p>The world&#8217;s oldest boy band &#8211; the Chelsea Pensioners, with a combined age of 550 years &#8211; have found the person they want to sing with them as part of their race for the Christmas number one.</p>
<p>Brenda Sokell, a 62-year-old former publishing rep from Northumberland, has been named as their &#8220;Singing Pensioner&#8221;.</p>
<p>They will now go straight into the studio to record White Christmas, taking on the X Factor for the race to the top of the charts.</p>
<p>The competition has been running on ITV1&#8217;s The Alan Titchmarsh Show, which culminated when viewers chose Brenda for the job.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all very well for the kids going on X Factor, good luck to them, it&#8217;s fantastic for them,&#8221; says Chelsea Pensioner Michael Allen.</p>
<p>&#8220;But we wanted to give the opportunity to an older person to live their dream. It can be difficult being our generation in the UK. </p>
<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re in civilian clothes, you get pushed off the pavement. When we wear our uniform, people stand up on buses and give you their seat. Wearing the Scarlet changes you as a person, put the Scarlet on, you become somebody. We wanted to show the country that the older generation have talent. They are worth idolising too.&#8221;</p>
<p>Brenda said: &#8220;It&#8217;s an amazing feeling. We can take on the X Factor, I think we&#8217;ll just have to beat Wagner the way people are voting for him! There&#8217;s so much goodwill for the Chelsea Pensioners that Christmas Number 1 is a real possibility.</p>
<p>&#8220;I started singing at 40 when the kids had grown up and have spent a long time getting my confidence. It doesn&#8217;t matter when you start, you can get your opportunity. This is like a new beginning for me. My hero is Tony Bennett, he&#8217;s in his 80s and sounds better than ever, it really shows what you can achieve at any age.&#8221;</p>
<p>The seven-strong Chelsea Pensioners released their album, Men In Scarlet, at the beginning of November. Their aim is to raise money for the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, where they live.</p>
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