{"id":82360,"date":"2023-03-14T20:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T20:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/14\/queens-brian-may-knighted-by-king-charles-at-buckingham-palace\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T20:22:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T20:22:03","slug":"queens-brian-may-knighted-by-king-charles-at-buckingham-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/14\/queens-brian-may-knighted-by-king-charles-at-buckingham-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s Brian May knighted by King Charles at Buckingham Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_95\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/queen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen<\/a> guitarist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/brian-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian May<\/a> was knighted by King Charles at Buckingham Palace as we speak (March 14).<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/brian-may-queen-in-3d-2083058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Queen days\u2019: Brian May displays on his rock \u2018n\u2019 roll journey<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>May was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/queen-brian-may-and-the-lionesses-included-in-2023-new-year-honours-list-3372720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">included within the 2023 New Year\u2019s Honours listing<\/a> alongside the Lionesses and extra, each for his work in music and his historical past as an animal rights activist.<\/p>\n<p>The first Honours listing from the brand new King additionally options nationwide treasures together with Stephen Graham (OBE for providers to drama) and Frank Skinner (MBE for providers to leisure), the latter of whom stated he kept away from telling his household of the honour on account of believing it was \u201csome sort of administrative error\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>England captain Leah Williamson is made an OBE. MBEs have been awarded to teammates Lucy Bronze, Beth Mead and Ellen White.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing a photograph of himself being knighted, May merely wrote: \u201cNo words! Bri\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>See the second beneath.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CpxNrkwsKED\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"FI7Y0qIlQl0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Queen guitarist Brian May knighted for services to music and charity | 5 News\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FI7Y0qIlQl0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the honour, May informed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-64125449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>BBC News<\/em><\/a>: \u201cThis is a kind of licence, a kind of commission to carry on doing what I\u2019m doing, and it gives me a bit more power to my elbow. So I\u2019m very happy about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, May lately stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/brian-may-says-queen-used-to-get-irritated-when-audiences-sang-along-to-songs-3392173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen\u00a0used to get \u201cirritated\u201d by crowds singing each line to their songs<\/a> throughout their earliest days as a band.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/news\/brian-may-queen-led-zeppelin-jimmy-page-influence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Total Guitar\u00a0<\/em><\/a>journal, May stated initially, they only needed followers to take heed to the lyrics they\u2019d spent hours arising with.<\/p>\n<p>He defined: \u201cBecause we thought: \u2018People, just listen. We\u2019re working really hard, so bloody well listen!\u2019 But they were unstoppable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/queen-launch-50-week-youtube-series-celebrating-live-legacy-3384654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen\u00a0launched a 50-week Youtube sequence known as\u00a0<em>Queen: The Greatest Live<\/em>, which is about to supply followers an perception into their reside on the highway.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '2300206660218433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Queen guitarist Brian May was knighted by King Charles at Buckingham Palace as we speak (March 14). READ MORE:\u00a0\u2018Queen days\u2019: Brian May displays on his rock \u2018n\u2019 roll journey May was included within the 2023 New Year\u2019s Honours listing alongside the Lionesses and extra, each for his work in music and his historical past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}