OFF: Sir Ian Kilminster?

[Doug Pearson]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:32:14 +0100, M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> wrote:
>"From the BBC website":
>
>Prime Minister Tony Blair, suffering his worst drop in popularity since
>the 1997 election of New Labour, has decided to emulate previous Labour
>Prime Minister Harold Wilson's granting of Knighthoods to The Beatles...
>
>The Prime Minister should however note that while Harold Wilson's move
>did improve his image with Britain's youth, it produced anger amongst
>some of the older generation, some of whom returned their medals to
>Downing Street in protest...

I believe it was the Kinks (or maybe the Who), who on their first US tour,
explained to the apparently-credulous interviewer that they had turned down
MBE medals on the grounds that those should not be given to bankers,
matrons and generals, but should rather be given EXCLUSIVELY to pop stars.
Only under those circumstances would they accept the title ...

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com