LONDON - He's 60, still singing, and now he's Sir Mick. That pouting, posturing icon of rock rebelliousness Mick Jagger officially joined the British establishment upon accepting a knighthood Friday — and hardly anyone objected.
Rolling Stone Keith Richards was a rare dissenter as Jagger — the group's raffish, womanizing front man — received the honor from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. Richards said Jagger's accepting the title was a disgrace, a comment Jagger laughed off.
"I think he would probably like to get the same honor himself," Jagger told reporters.
"It's like being given an ice cream — one gets one and they all want one. It's nothing new. Keith likes to make a fuss."
Times have changed since 1965, when some outraged dignitaries returned their gold medals in protest after The Beatles were made Members of the Order of the British Empire, or MBE.
Since then, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney Beatles' producer George Martin, Elton John and Cliff Richard have become rock knights.
Two other senior rockers — Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Gary Brooker of Procol Harum — were at the palace Thursday to collect MBEs for their charity work.
Other than the profanity-laced criticism from Richards, the announcement last year of Jagger's honor brought only a couple of angry letters to The Daily Telegraph. A Canadian woman whose husband, mother and grandfather received honors wrote: "By giving a knighthood to a rogue like Mick Jagger, the prime minister has denigrated all the worthy recipients of honors from Her Majesty the Queen."
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