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[LennonStarrFan]

Hopeful of winning Corby for the Conservatives at the General Election, Louise Bagshawe already has a bone to pick with the future culture secretary.

The best-selling author claims that "snobbishness" has left popular culture under-represented by the honours system.

"It has always struck me that it is pretty easy for the conductor of some regional orchestra to get himself a knighthood and yet we've got a situation where Ringo Starr and Jimmy Page aren't even knights," she complained at a Romantic Novelists' Association event.

"Popular music is almost routinely ignored. As a nation, there is a certain deference that one style of art is inherently better than another. That's a tremendous shame."


Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/7528947/Felicity-Kendal-Clever-women-cant-be-beautiful.html