Whatever you think of the honours system in general, his dodgy political views, his voice or his trout farming enterprises, one has to admit he has done sterling work for the Teenage Cancer Trust for decades.
Steve Winwood and Graham Goldman also picked up MBEs.
Steve Winwood should have been a knighthood, surely?
and what about Steve Hillage – a Gong for Gong?
Huzzah! Have an up!
The campaign starts here!
What has Winwood done for charity?
He’s contributed to a few charity concerts for ARMS, Children’s Society, Christian Aid, Open Door, and Teenage Cancer Trust.
But his MBE is for services to music.
In particular, the gorgeous keyboard sound on Spanish Dancer, I imagine.
Thanks
Fair play to the three of them… I’d take it, free lunch, free booze, medal, invite to loads of garden parties / gallery openings when you get back home. Triffic!
But these awards are a bit like Charity / Community Shield winners… famous for sure (Arsenal / Paul McCartney)… but it’s the thing that fans least know about them!
I mean, is Ray Davies a Sir? I really can’t remember, but I could name the Kinks first two 45s.
It’s all for readers of the Daily Mail isn’t it?
Ray is a sir. A friend of mine who’s daughter (an Olympic champion) was getting an award met him in the palace
Didn’t you mean Traffic?
🙂
No incorrect… Triffic, you know, famous for ‘Piper Sun’.
Well Steve W is a Brummie
As indeed is Steve T
Rogers Not a headline though I had to sift through the stories
More interesting is who’s refused them. David Bowie is one. Was Keith Richard’s ever offered one? I recall him saying something like Mick only wanted one cos everyone else had one. Or summat like that…
Remember Keef writing in his autobiography of the “cold hard rage” he felt when he learned Mick had been offered – and accepted – his K
“A damn knighthood? I wouldn’t let that family near me with a sharp stick never mind a sword!”
Sir Gary Oldman but not, as far as I’m aware, Sir Gary Numan.
Nor Sir Gary me. Not that I’d accept. “Bog off, you inbred!” I’d petulantly remark. Unless there was a cash prize involved.
I think you get a year’s supply of Duchy Original biccies and a free visit to Poundland (sorry, Poundbury).
We visited Poundbury last summer.
Crikey – what a weird place.
Like Stepford?
Visiting Poundbury was a surreal experience. The place didn’t look real. It looked like a movie set, a grand experiment. You felt as if you’d just wandered in to the Truman Show. According to Wikipedia, Poundbury has a population of 6,000. But where were they all? There were very few people about. The whole place was eerily quiet.
I had a great aunt who used to live in Bridport and when our family drove down to that part of the world (Moonacre Manor in Narnia), we sometimes drove through Poundbury. Classical buildings just like Charles would have liked, but in the middle of open farmland – very eerie.