They knight you for the income to the Crown. John left the UK, and the other two never made as much money after the Beatles as Paul. As goofy as a lot of Wings albums are, he made a lot of them and they had hits. Mull this one: Sir Bob Geldof. He's Irish! (Republic, not Northern.) They knighted him for the revenue of Live Aid.
Being from small town, USA, I admit my ignorance regarding such manners. I always presumed that knighthood had something to with social stature, dedication to the arts, bravery or positive contributions to society maybe. As with LiveAid, I thought it was due to the charitable nature of the thing. Learning that it is simply a matter recognizing someone's generation of revenue & less noble than I thought is disappointing. It seems so...American? to me, somehow.
Im not sure that it sounds so "American." When have any of us been celebrated for the taxes we pay the IRS? I didn't realize that knighthood was tied to the money one brought to the crown either. Thanks pseydtonne
I meant that knighthood being less noble and more about the cash seems, in my mind, like something we might have come up with, being that our whole culture seems so to revolve around the dollar. I was referencing my mistaken ideas about the knighthood -vs- the reality that knights service isn't some high-minded noble position, so much as a recognition of raking in alot of cash.