The Few The Few The Few were the airmen of the Royal Air Force (RAF) who fought the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. The term comes from Winston Churchill's phrase "Never, in the field of human conflict, was so much owed by so many to so few." It also alludes to Shakespeare's famous speech in his play, "Henry V": "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers..." Nearly 3,000 men were awarded the "Battle of Britain" clasp. As of July 2018, only eight survivors of The Few are still living. By one tally, British RAF aircrew numbered 2,353
The Gracious Few (album) The Gracious Few (album) The Gracious Few is the debut studio album by rock supergroup The Gracious Few. Drummer Chad Gracey explained the album's sound, "We knew we wanted to be a little harder than what Live had been doing and even what Candlebox had been doing. Chad Taylor comes up with a lot of the riffs that we start the songs from and he was just playing this real sort of heavy, bluesy stuff. Once we heard that we were like, 'Wow, this is kind of a Led Zeppelin, throwback feel' and it just sort of happened. We didn't