Entertainment: UK Honours - UK honours list includes Sting and beckham
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SHOTLIST
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1. David Beckham
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2.Roger Moore - knighthood
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3.Helen Mirren - dame
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4.Gordon Sumner (Sting) - CBE
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5.Billy Connolly - CBE
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6.Dave Gilmour - CBE
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7.Alexander McQueen - CBE
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8.Anish Kapoor - CBE
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9 Kristin Scott Thomas - OBE
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10.Jools Holland - OBE
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11.Jamie Oliver - OBE
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12.Errol Brown - MBE
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13. SIMON RUSSEL BEALE
ROGER MOORE, DAVID BECKHAM AND HELEN MIRREN AMONG CELEBS HONOURED BY QUEEN.
The name's Moore. Roger Moore. And from today, SIR Roger Moore
Roger Moore, the suave actor who played the British master spy James Bond, heads another glittering roll call of showbusiness stars and sporting icons in the Queen's Birthday Honours published today (13JUN03).
Comic Billy Connolly, actress Helen Mirren, Sting, Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour and Naked Chef Jamie Oliver are also honoured.
Roger Moore, who played the hero in seven James Bond films, gets a knighthood in the Diplomatic List for charitable services, especially to Unicef and Kiwanis International, another children's charity. Moore was also famous as The Saint in the hit TV series.
Helen Mirren, who was born Ilynea Lydia Mironoff and is a descendant of the White Russian nobility, become a British dame. She came to fame with for roles which involve disrobing and has had major roles in blockbuster films like The Madness of King George. Mirren became a household name with her portrayal of Jane Tennison, and the hard-boiled detective in the TV hit series Prime Suspect.
Actress Kristin Scott Thomas, Oscar-nominated for her role in The English Patient, gets an OBE in the Diplomatic List. She is a fluent French speaker and dubbed herself in French in the hit film Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Troubled England soccer captain David Beckham, as widely leaked, receives an OBE. But his former Spice Girl wife Victoria might well be miffed that she's been left out and is unable to call herself Lady Posh.
British fasion designer Alexander McQueen receives a CBE as does sculptor Anish Kapoor, who's enormous work currently graces the entrance to London's Tate Modern gallery.
STING
Rock star Sting said he was "surprised and flattered" to be awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. The singer, 51, who first found fame with The Police, was rewarded for his services to the music industry.
"I'm surprised and flattered to receive this honour," he said. "If my mum and dad were still here they would be made up."
Married to actress Trudie Styler, the father of six and devoted Yoga practitioner was a milkman's son from Wallsend, Tyneside. A teacher, soccer coach and ditch digger in an earlier incarnation, Sting pursued his love of music through a jazz rock outfit Last Exit. But he teamed up with drummer Stewart Copeland to form The Police in 1977, with Andy Summers joining shortly afterwards. Their sparse sound eventually won a mainstream fan base and with Message In A Bottle the three musicians began a run of five number one singles. Over time they adapted their sound, culminating with their final chart-topper Every Breath You Take. Internal friction was taking it's toll 1984 but it was not until 1986 that they played their last show.
Since then Sting has returned to the jazz of his pre-Police days and went on to have successful solo career
Throughout his career, Sting has been recognised for his influence and inventiveness as a musical artist.
In 2002 he received a Grammy, a Golden Globe Award, an Emmy, three BMI Awards, the Ivor Novello award for international achievement, the 2002 Brit Award for outstanding contribution to British music and was inducted into the songwriters hall of fame. Dalliances with acting - notably in low budget box office hit Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - have also punctuated his career. And his fund-raising for rainforests and human rights has also been a major part of his life.
DAVE GILMOUR
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour emerged from the psychedelic underground to become one of the world's best-selling musicians and among the most respected guitarists of his generation.
Along with his band, the unassuming Cambridge-born star notched up the biggest selling album of all time with Dark Side of the Moon. The CBE awarded to him in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to music will be a welcome recognition of his lengthy and successful career.
But he has recently become noted for his philanthropy, donating #3.6 million from the sale of his mansion to a project providing housing for the homeless. Gilmour - whose parents were lecturers - joined Pink Floyd in 1968 to ease the pressure on frontman Syd Barrett, who was in a fragile mental state.
The band - with whom he had been pals for years - had already scored chart hits with Arnold Layne and See Emily Play. Floyd continued after Barrett's departure the following year, increasing their live reputation and expanding the fan base for their aural experimentation.
By 1973, the release of Dark Side, Gilmour had perfected his trademark guitar sound that would pack stadiums for years to come. Two years of touring were followed by further success with the albums Wish You Were Here and Animals. But the music took a darker turn with 1979's The Wall, a concept album dealing with alienation and mental collapse. Gilmour's influence came to the fore when he took the role of frontman after 1983's The Final Cut following the departure of bass player Roger Waters, who had guided the band's direction until that point.
Although critics claimed the band had been weakened lyrically, Gilmour steered Floyd onwards with the albums A Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell, and further spectacular live shows.
With the band dormant since the mid-90s Gilmour has kept his hand in with session work, notably appearing with Sir Paul McCartney on his Run Devil Run album. Last year Gilmour, now 57, won acclaim for his solo shows at London's Royal
Festival Hall. A father of eight, he lives with his second wife, Polly Samson.
BILLY CONNOLLY
Comedian Billy Connolly, awarded a CBE for his services to entertainment, rose from a tough background to become one of the nation's favourite funnymen.
He was brought up in a Glasgow tenement by his aunts following his parents' split when he was four years old.
After an unhappy childhood he left school at 15 and took a job as a welder in the shipyards.
He formed folk group The Humblebums with future music star Gerry Rafferty and became a minor star, appearing in a Royal Command Performance and releasing two albums.
Then in the early 1970s he launched his solo stand-up career and was soon a regular fixture on British TV.
His stage shows were as well-known for Connolly's prodigious swearing as they were for his jokes. In later years Connolly has also forged a career as a serious actor, most notably in the 1997 film Mrs Brown which earned him a Bafta nomination.
Connolly split from first wife Iris Pressagh, with whom he had two children, in 1985 after 16 years of marriage. Four years later he married comedian turned psychologist Pamela Stephenson and they went on to have three daughters. Stephenson's biography of Connolly, called simply Billy, has sold more than 1.6 million copies and contained revelations about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child.
OTHERS
A "pukka" MBE goes to Jamie Oliver, TV's so-called Naked Chef and restaurateur, for services to the hospitality industry. He has been described as the hottest young star of TV cookery. His books have been translated into many different languages and are sold around the world.
There is a CBE for Richard Briers, who is as at home playing bumbling husbands in TV sitcoms like Ever Decreasing Circles and The Good Life, as he is on the Shakespearean stage.
Jim Dale, the man who made the Harry Potter audio books famous in the United States, gets an MBE in the Diplomatic List. Dale, who became the Toast of Broadway when he created the flamboyant title role in the musical Barnum, has recorded readings of the first four Harry Potter books.
A CBE also goes to actor Simon Russell Beale, who is regarded as one of the finest Shakespearean actors of his generation. He gave his first theatre performance in Othello at Clifton College at the age of 14.
Jools Holland gets an OBE. He is renowned as a multi-talented keyboard player and hosts late-night TV shows often giving new musicians the chance to show their worth.
And Gerry Marsden, famous in the 1960s for his group, Gerry and the Pacemakers and in particular their song Ferry Cross the Mersey, gets an MBE some 40 years on. He also recorded You'll Never Walk Alone, Liverpool FC's official song. The award is for services to charity on Merseyside.
Bill Oddie, a member of the 1970s comedy act The Goodies and now an energetic environmental campaigner, gets an OBE.
Gary Brooker, who formed Procol Harum in 1967, receives an MBE.
There is an MBE for Errol Brown, lead singer with the 1970s band Hot Chocolate.