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Knighthood...(extremely regal)

? Would that be Jagger?

Well I found the answer
Seems Elton John was too.
Anyone else from our generation of entertainers?

I assume you know about Paul McCartney.

And Sean Connery.

Mick but not Keef?

Give him Pauls! He is too busy rewriting the history of the Beatles to be a proper knight. Not to denegrate his influence, but John and George were in the band too you know!

Still congrats to Mick

I had heard grummbles about "only Paul?"
The same goes for Keef ,where would Mick be without him?

I did not know about Connery.
I would not consider a man that admits he hits women very knight- like.I like him as an actor. I like Woody Allen as a filmaker but neither seems above the norm with admirable behavior.

Is their art the main consideration then?
It's a mystery to me - this thing about knights.

I think, abbi, that both their artistic contribution as well as their representation of The Empire are taken into consideration. I mean, you certainly associate The Beatles with England & Sean Connery with Scotland (& of course his James Bond character was in the British Secret Service.)

Well, Sir Michael Jagger...that does not sound very much like a rolling stone rock´n´roll rebel, does it...

Let´s hope that Keef never gets in question for a knighthood, and if he does, that he turns it down.

Sir Keef has a good ring to it, better than sir Mick!

I say let the addled have equal rights!

Yeah!
*carries banner and bullhorn*
"let the addled have equal rights"

Well Izzybelle, tonemonkey (you haven't met - Izzybelle, tonemonkey's in The U.K., tonemonkey, Izzybelle's in Sweden-we've known each other, so to speak, for...about 8 or 9 months (?)

I think Keef has essentially refused, or at least made it quite clear some time ago, that he wouldn't accept a Knighthood if it were ever offered. In fact, a quote from Keef in the local paper(part of the article about Jagger) states "I thought it was ludicrous to take one of those gongs (awards) from the establishment when they did their very best to throw us in jail," - referring to his & Mick's '67 drug conviction which was overturned.

Oh, & actually I don't think you've met abbi either Izzybelle (or vice versa)-abbi's in the U.S. (& I think you'll find her quite like-minded)Izzybelle, & abbi, Izzybelle's a Mom of 2 teenagers, as I said in Sweden.

*waves*
Nice to meet you Izzybelle

Hi abbi , how're you doing?

Sore & Tired from Christmas shopping but glad most of it is done.
So pretty good really!

How about you?

about the delay! Was sorting through some ...settled on a CD by a couple musicians I met from NYC. I'm fine abbi, although I've got a bit of shopping to do yet.

Hello everybody, old and new friends.

Iam pleased to hear that Keef has some kind of feeling of what is apropriate, I mean to go from "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Jumping Jack Flash" to Sir Michael...
"Let me introduce myself..." Sir Mick

Hello all! Yes, Izzybelle I have to agree with you...there is an oddness about it, in that sense ...but life is like that sometimes. I doubt the "Street Fighting Man" of the '60's was aspiring to anything other than keeping his head above the water.

*aspiring to keep head above the water*

Kind of funny -
I have seen folks I think deserve some kind of medal for succeeding in doing just that!

Here's to keeping your head above water!