Today the Queen has announced who is making the New Year’s honour’s list and once again there are a few figures from music who have made the cut.
No doubt bolstered by Led Zeppelin’s one-off reunion show in December 2007 and his solo success alongside Alison Krauss, Robert Plant has rightfully been awarded a CBE (or a Commander of the British Empire in full). Although in my humble opinion the legendary singer deserved a full knighthood. Alongside him, jazz musician Courtney Pine has also received a CBE.
Now I’m no royalist - far from it in fact. The moment when the Queen blathered on about the credit crunch and the “difficult times” we are going through from the comfort of Buckingham Palace during her annual speech made my stomach turn for one.
But if Paul McCartney, Bob Geldof, Elton John and ****ing Cliff Richard have all become Sirs there must be many more rock stars out there who also deserve the honour.
Assuming that the Queen and her team know **** all about music compared to Gigwise, here I present a host of rock stars who surely should be known as Sir (whether they like it or not, ahem, David Bowie!)…
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- Brian May should be added in there. And Freddie Mercury even though he's dead.
- Ray Davies should be knighted. He is already CBE but stands out above all of the people mentioned in this article as a consistently brilliant songwriter.
- all this worry about knighthoods!!Sir Paul Mcartney,Sir Elton John...............Come on! I am a Yank in Kentucky for all ****s sake! I KNOW who deserves the queens honor... people like Ray Davies (first because he NEVER EVER sold out of being ENGLISH) and what a ****in' talent,Eh?? Second would be Roger&David from Floyd,then Pete and Roger, then all the GREAT NEW STUFF like Blur
- AHAHAHA
morrissey
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i think the queen is dead pissed on any chance of a knighthood
- I think Johnny Rotten should be knighted, he should accept it and do a scandal at the ceremony.
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