Showtime is giving a free preview week so I was scrolling through the free movies and I came across Mick & Margaret. Its about MICK and Margaret the queen's younger sister hooking up in the early days and remaining friends through the years. She had something to do with him purchasing his Mustique estate. I don't remember hearing about this but it looks like a true story. Did anyone else watch this yet?

Man I missed that I guest my free Showtime is up. I tell you what this show on ESPN about the Bulls is wonderful.

B - It was said - at least semi-seriously - that the regality of the photos of M&M (Michael and Princess Margaret) backstage at Earl's Court in 1976 was what inspired the UK (counter-cultural) punk movement in music.

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4013/4231237856_488f2c2c17_z.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/49/98/a6/4998a696d4a6ec200f9ab58c90d06c5e.jpg

Thanks for the tip - searching Earls Court photos.

Interesting!

https://www.sho.com/titles/3478039/mick-and-margaret

Unfortunately not available outside the US.

This guy playing Mick looks like a losing hand.

They always get loopy buggers to play Mick, even the guy Mick chose himself in the James Brown biopic.

Jesus. I almost didnt recognise Kelly McDonald (Trainspotting, Boardwalk Empire, No Country for Old Men). She looks great.

One of my favourite actresses of recent years. She was recently here in Belfast starting to film the next season of 'Line of Duty' only for production to be halted after a couple of weeks due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

Fuck knows what she's doing in this, though. Sounds horrendous.

Bitch wrote on Apr 21^st, 2020 at 9:26pm:

Thanks for the tip - searching Earls Court photos.

Going by the fact that he's wearing 1976 stage clothes, this might be one of them

see the link :

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f9f924ec42a9701c19256695dc4faf81-c

The younger guy behind her in the dark jacket is her then toy-boy Roddy Llewellyn.  Their relationship was a tabloid sensation at the time as he was about 15-16 years younger than her and she was still officially married

I watched the movie out of curiosity. It didn't suggest a scandal, more of a long lasting friendship. Also the princess had a hand in getting MICK his knighthood. Queen granted Margaret's wish but she didn't attend the ceremony because she wasn't into it. She did it for Margaret who had just died.

Bitch wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2020 at 8:20pm:

I watched the movie out of curiosity. It didn't suggest a scandal, more of a long lasting friendship. Also the princess had a hand in getting MICK his knighthood. Queen granted Margaret's wish but she didn't attend the ceremony because she wasn't into it. She did it for Margaret who had just died.

Almost certainly nonsense but it makes for a good tabloid story. There's no indication she's ever done that with anyone else, so its insane that Mick Jagger of all people would be singled out.

The Queen only gives final approval to honours. The recipients are recommended by the public or government departments and are then selected by the Prime Minister or Secretary of State. You can see in the 'Being Mick' documentary that he seemed almost desperate to get the honour - he's even dropping a none too subtle hint to Prince Charles at one point!  If anyone was responsible for it, it was probably Tony Blair, who had an obsession with making the honours system more 'populist' by rewarding more and more entertainers and sports figures, although I agree that his friendship with Margaret did him no harm. 

He'd have got it eventually anyway. Every major artist eventually gets offered these days. But what maybe went against him for a while is that the honour is usually linked to services to charity.  Elton and Macca for example were knighted for their services to music and charitable causes. Mick had no real track record for that, so as I recall (and I stand to be corrected on this) I think he was the first rock 'knight' to get the honour purely for 'services to music'.

Mick himself postponed the investiture several times because (by his own admission) every date he was given coincided with a period where he was on the road with the Stones on the 'Licks' tour.

By December 2003 (18 months after he was awarded it) when he did receive the knighthood, it had become commonplace for Prince Charles to carry out the ceremony as he had gradually been taking on more of his mother's duties. In recent years, Prince William has done many of them as well.

If I am ever to be knighted in the near future, it would have to be Liz or nobody who does the deed...