Poor Britain! Still hobbling along with an outdated feudal system of social class distinction. Keith was right to tell Mick that a Rolling Stone shouldn't be a knight!
Ringo doesn't need to be one either.
Why doesn't Britain scrap the whole monarchy while they're at it? It's pathetic.
Reminds me what one British poet had to say way back in 1819--although the spring's still muddy:
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,--
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,--mud from a muddy spring,--
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,--
A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,--
An army, which liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield,--
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless--a book sealed;
A Senate,--Time's worst statute, unrepealed,--
Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.