12A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, March 13, 1997 NATION/WORLD Ex-Beatle McCartney attains knighthood LONDON (AP) -- From backbeat to bended , The queen made McCartney a knight, for his ser- knee: Paul McCartney, teen idol of the hippie era, vice to music, in her New Year Honors List. She went to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday to receive officially bestowed the honor at Tuesday's ceremo- that ultimate symbol of respectability - a knight- ny. hood from Queen Elizabeth II. Being a knight means he has the title "Sir" and Togged out in tails, he showed how much he has his wife the title "Lady." Linda McCartney, who is changed since he first met recovering from breast cancer the queen in 1965 - he and treatment, stayed home, but the other Beatles, sporting My mum and Sir Paul said she was doing then-fashionablc narrow well. lapels and skinny ties, dad would have Although the honor carries prepped for that encounter by nothing beyond the title, it is sharing a joint. been Xi6$ $ still a coveted emblem of "My mum and dad would , approval and standing in pub- have been extremely proud proud lic life. - and perhaps they are,' said In 1965, McCartney and the the ex-Beatle bassist, garbed - Paul MCCartney rest of the Fab Four were in aber, traditional tailcoat, Pop star and British knight dubbed Members of the Order his silver-streaked hair skim- of the British Empire - one with albums including "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "The Beatles." Battling stagefright before meeting the queen, the group took refuge in palace restrooms just prior to getting their awards - and calmed down by smoking marijuana. Some other members of the Order of the British Empire sent their honors back to the queen to protest what they called the system's devaluation. For McCartney, the days of marijuana arrests and psychedelic drugs in 1960s London are but a mem- ory. He has settled down as a family man, an envi- ronmentalist and animal rights supporter. One of the most successful pop stars of all time, McCartney also is a generous supporter of chari- ties. He has put some of his millions to good works, founding the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts - officially opened by the queen this year. The Beatles broke up in 1970, and the fourth Beatle, John Lennon, was killed in New York in 1980. Sir Paul said Tuesday that the other surviving members of the Fab Four, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, make fun of his knighthood. "They call me 'Your Holiness,"' he said. mina his shoulders. Keeping with tradition, McCartney bent down before the queen on one knee, and she dubbed him knight, laying a sword on each of his shoulders. Hundreds of fans, some wearing "Arise Sir Paul" T- shifts, cheered his arrival and waited outside the palace until he emerged. step below knighthood. A lot hz ; changed since then. It was the height of Beatlemania, when the mop- haired rockers put Swinging London on the cultur- al map and attracted screaming hordes of fans everywhere they went. They dominated pop music with standards such as "She Loves You" and "Yesterday"; they would go on to change it forever A PrOT Former Beatle Paul McCartney shows off a medal he received from Queen Elizabeth 11 in Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. *1 OAlcohoI & Other Drugs *body Imae Healthy & isordered Ea Becomea UHS Peer Educator fall-winter 1997-98 Census Bureau plans new methods for count ln 2000 I @Safer inn From you: 0 two semest.,r carrit erit For you: " Ict ) of training & experit~lce " E; c r r~c credJit (no money) " i ens cof ti;, a