Bill Ash escaping activities. He ended the war as a flight lieutenant. In August 2015, the BBC reported: "When Ash died aged 96 last year his obituaries noted that he was said to have been the model for Virgil Hilts, the lean, leather-jacketed airman played by Steve McQueen in the 1963 film "The Great Escape"". The character Hilts, nicknamed "The Cooler King" because of the time he spends in the prison camp's punishment block (which the prisoners call the "cooler") for his persistent escape attempts, steals a motorbike and tries to escape to Switzerland but is caught while using it to jump
The Great Escape (Blur album) examines the costs of "trusting in stasis". "Select" named the record the 34th best of the 1990s, while "Pitchfork" placed it 70th. It was ranked by BuzzFeed as the sixth-best LP of the Britpop era. "The Great Escape" also placed at #725 in the 2000 edition of the book, "All Time Top 1000 Albums". 4:21 into "Yuko and Hiro" is a minute long instrumental reprise of "Ernold Same". Although officially untitled, it is sometimes erroneously referred to as "A World of Difference" because these words appear in a separate box below the track list in the booklet. The Great Escape