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Honours time again
Posted by honestman on 11 June 2010 - 5:22pm.
As with anyone else who works in the news media I've seen the embargoed-until-midnight Queen's birthday honours list.
So, music-wise, look out for two stars who started out in the sixties but had to go to the States to find critical fame, if not fortune, and someone involved with a number one of the 1990s who has since been 'discovered' by television in a totally different field.
One of these gentlemen has, I seem to recall, been featured in a Word from this year.
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My guesses
I guess Graham Nash (but I assume I'm wrong!) and of course prof Brian Cox.
Edit: Blimey! I got them both right!
Peter Noone / Davy Jones...
...crossed *off* list of possibilities. Would Graham Nash accept an honour?
Graham Nash...
...has been a U.S. citizen since the late '60s, so wouldn't be eligible.
Nash needen't have given up
being a "subject". Both sides let you collect a set. One of my passports happens to be of Olde Blightey.
Nash and Cox seem reasonable guesses
Not sure they'd be seen as worthy of anything greater than an OBE/MBE though.
Not
Sir Ozzy Osbourne then?
Arise......
Lord Thompson of Beeswing.
Well, he gets my vote.
Simon Cowell was involved in a 1990s number one wasn't he?
Things can only get better
A totally different field, you say...?
So its John Cale OBE
and his shiny shiny medal. Maybe the miserable sod might crack a smile
Duckworth Lewis Method MBE
It was The Word That Won It.
Fred Dinenage MBE
...How?
I'm sure it's well deserved
Although maybe his daughter had a word with "Dave" http://caroline4gosport.co.uk/.
I must say I'm pleased for Brian Clemens
-well deserved, for sure:
I can't be the only Word reader
who, on seeing the news on the BBC website this morning, spent several minutes scanning down the page looking for the musical recipients. Wade through stuff about Cath Z-J, her from Corrie, video segment of Bonnie Greer, etc etc and then find the single paragraph.
Only to find that even at that late stage, "our two" are relegated:
"Children's TV presenter Fred Dineage and 'Allo 'Allo actress Vicki Michelle are made MBEs, while ex-Velvet Underground musician John Cale and Graham Nash, of Crosby, Stills and Nash, are among the new OBEs."
I'm not complaining, mind, just pointing out ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10294866.stm
It must be irritating
for Nash and Cale, to know that the BBC rank the star of Virgin Witch above them.
Me, I'm pleased that one of my co-workers has been honoured: congrats to the Divine Mrs Gloria Atkinson-Carter, MBE for services to higher education.
Nevermind that
Whatever happened to Lord Hepworth of Cleckhuddersfax and Sir Mark Ellen?
Richly deserved for service to HORAs.
So Vicki Michelle
gets a gong for services to unlikley sex object wartime cafe owners
And Brian Clemens also created 'Thriller' series which can be purchased for a ridiculous price. Great British character actors, early appearances of thesps and some barmy plots
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thriller-Complete-Repackaged-Robert-Powell/dp/B0...
and of course, Bergerac, for locking up Liza Goddard and overseeing the gradual slaughter of everyone in the sleepy village of Midsomer
MBE for Fred Dineage?
How?
(geddit?)
You'd have to get up a lot earlier
to have beaten me to that one, my friend:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/honours-time-again#comment-279232
oh bums
Very sorry BT. How depressing to think that I read your post, went "ha!" and the moments later thought "I know a good joke...".