A Hard Day's Knight - Sir Ringo

Rabs

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/24/hard-days-knight-arise-sir-ringo-beatle-due-knighted-new-year/

Ringo Starr, the Beatles drummer, will be knighted in the New Year's Honours, it has been claimed.

Starr will join his bandmate Sir Paul McCartney as a knight, 52 years after receiving an MBE.

Sir Paul was knighted in 1997 but, according to the Sun on Sunday, Starr, 77, had given up hope of a further honour until a letter arrived from the Palace several weeks ago.

The knighthood will be awarded for services to music and charity and announced next week along with a full list of official recipients.

A close family friend told the newspaper: "It came as a bolt from the blue. Ringo was totally knocked sideways but is chuffed to bits."

"He'll feel ten feet tall when he goes back. Sadly, two of the Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison, are no longer here to be honoured in a similar way.

"But giving Ringo a knighthood will go some way towards recognising the enormous contribution The Beatles made to popular music. He is a beacon of Beatlemania."

In 1965, all four members of the Beatles were awarded an MBE at Buckingham Palace.

Sir Paul has previously suggested his friend had been robbed of a deserved knighthood, telling NME in 2011 it was "about time".

Asked whether he could put in a word with the Queen, he joked: “The last time I went by she was out. Otherwise I would have popped in and said ‘Look, love, Sir Richard Starkey' [Starr's real name]. 

"Because I do think it’s about time, but she probably was a bit busy with Sir Brucie.” 

Starr's charity work includes donations to causes supporting AIDS awareness, abused children, human rights, poverty around the world and the creative arts. 

He made headlines this year by suggesting he voted Leave in the Brexit referendum, saying afterwards: "The people voted and they have to get on with it."

RandallFlagg

Peace and Love...

https://youtu.be/hV8JFj17AtY

richardhomer

RandallFlagg said:

Peace and Love...

https://youtu.be/hV8JFj17AtY

Shall we send him a few things for signing anyway?

usedtobe

richardhomer said:

RandallFlagg said:

Peace and Love...

https://youtu.be/hV8JFj17AtY

Shall we send him a few things for signing anyway?

While he’s in a good mood, like..?
  

BigBearKris

I could care less...

ICBM

I can't imagine John Lennon ever accepting one. He never wanted the MBE either - he would have turned it down, but Brian Epstein asked him not to.

Jimbro66

Just Pete Best left to knight then.........

JezWynd

scrumhalf

Rabs said:

Sir Paul was knighted in 1997 but, according to the Sun on Sunday, Starr, 77, had given up hope of a further honour until a letter arrived from the Palace several weeks ago.

Well, it don't come it easy, you know it don't come easy.

RandallFlagg

usedtobe said:

richardhomer said:

RandallFlagg said:

Peace and Love...

https://youtu.be/hV8JFj17AtY

Shall we send him a few things for signing anyway?

While he’s in a good mood, like..?
  

Yeah lets do it, I will send him some of my old holey socks that are being replaced by new Christmas ones, I reckon he'll be made up. i might also send him some bubble and squeak as well, it should be fine after a few days in the UPS hub.

midlifecrisis

its really just for thomas the tank engine

Hootsmon

Arise Sir Bongo

proggy

ICBM said:

I can't imagine John Lennon ever accepting one. He never wanted the MBE either - he would have turned it down, but Brian Epstein asked him not to.

Was that pun intended?