Which astute Freeper will be the first to point out the irony?
Posted on 06/08/2002 7:30:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
Mick Jagger is to receive a knighthood for services to music in the Queen's Birthday Honours next weekend, according to newspaper reports.
Earlier this year, the Rolling Stones singer claimed Prince Charles was shocked he had not even received an MBE while Paul McCartney, Elton John, Cliff Richard and Bob Geldof had already been knighted.
But the 58-year-old was put forward for the honour by Tony Blair, says the News of the World.
The prime minister covered the Stones' Honky Tonk Woman and Brown Sugar with his group the Ugly Rumours as a student at Oxford.
Jagger, an old friend of Princess Margaret, was asked to play at last weekend's Buckingham Palace Jubilee concert but refused because of tour commitments.
A 12-month Stones world tour starts in September this year and will consist of 32 dates in the United States and Canada, before heading to Europe, Australia, Mexico and the Far East in 2003.
The band, who last toured in 1999, are also hoping to play their first ever concert in China.
A retrospective CD of their greatest hits from 1963 to the present day will be released to coincide with the tour.
The name of the tour will be revealed with the name of the new album.
Tour promoter Michael Cohl has said the shows will be "a spectacular music event" and described the tour as "the most ambitious undertaking the Stones have ever taken upon themselves".
What particular "service" is he being rewarded for? A foul mouth? Drug consumption? Fathering numerous children by a variety of different women? Inciting violence? All of the above?
What a joke the English monarchy and Honors system has become.
Perhaps by David Bowie?
knighthood has lost all honor. Celebrity has replaced honor with discrace.
Which astute Freeper will be the first to point out the irony?
If anyone deserves the title, Sir Benny Hill does.
Agreed!!!! Speaks volumes about the degradation and decay of a once great Culture and Civilization.
Posted on 6/2/02 11:18 AM Pacific by Glutton
Sunday, 2 June, 2002, 17:59 GMT 18:59 UK
Fire at Buckingham Palace
The smoke is rising over London
Part of Buckingham Palace is on fire, sending a thick column of smoke into the sky. The scale of the incident is not clear and it is not known if the Queen is inside. The area is being evacuated, including dozens of workers preparing for Monday's Jubilee concert. Emergency vehicles are racing to the scene.
More soon.
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