02.15.2020
ELVIS COSTELLO GETS OBE FROM PRINCE CHARLES SAYING HIS MUSICIAN FATHER WHO ONCE PERFORMED AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE STAFF PARTY ‘WOULD’VE LOVED THE IDEA OF ONE OF US COMING THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR’
Daily Mail: Jemma Carr: 14th February 2020
Singer Elvis Costello and Jack Reacher author Lee Child are among the stars honoured by Price Charlesat the Buckingham Palace investitures today.
Mr Costello was made an OBE for services to music after a five decades-long career which has seen him inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and ranked by Rolling Stone as among the 100 greatest artists of all time.
Mr Costello described being honoured as a ‘curious and gracious’ experience, having initially been reluctant to accept the establishment endorsement.
Mr Costello, who was made an OBE for services to music, praised the ‘broad-mindedness’ behind someone like him being included in an honours list and complimented the ‘resilience’ of the Queen
Mr Costello described being honoured in Buckingham Palace as a ‘curious and gracious’ experience, having initially been reluctant to accept the establishment endorsement.
He smiled as he told how he imagined his late father, who he described as a non-violent Irish republican, might have reacted.
Explaining that his father had sang at the palace more than 50 years ago at a Christmas staff ball, he said: ‘I know my dad would’ve loved the idea of one of the family coming through the front door.’