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  • visualnickmos
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 3609

    #16
    Scrap the whole silly damn thing.

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      #17
      Originally posted by Bryn View Post
      Presumably that as a recording producer for Universal.


      Mind you - what happened to them after he left!


      SkyBBC, anyone?
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Don Petter

        #18
        Originally posted by visualnickmos View Post
        Scrap the whole silly damn thing.
        Or at least make it more egalitarian. Just have one reward - 'The Grand Order of the Hippopotamus'?

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        • Keraulophone
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 1945

          #19
          Originally posted by Bryn View Post
          Presumably that as a recording producer for Universal.
          Did you mean Vice President, Artists and Repertoire at DG?

          I can't find any recordings for which he was actually the producer.

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          • Suffolkcoastal
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 3290

            #20
            I presume that RW's 'honour' is for 'dis-service to music and being economical with the truth about it'. I wonder if after he's wrecked Aldeburgh, he'll turn to politics?

            Peter Holman was my personal tutor for a while at Colchester many years ago. Really nice, modest guy, got on very well with him as I was one of the few students that took an interest in the early music he was presenting and enlightening us on.

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            • rauschwerk
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 1480

              #21
              Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
              I wonder if after he's wrecked Aldeburgh, he'll turn to politics?
              Why should he 'wreck' Aldeburgh? The environment there is surely quite different from the BBC and so, I imagine, is the funding situation.

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              • Tony Halstead
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 1717

                #22
                Originally posted by visualnickmos View Post
                Scrap the whole silly damn thing.


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                • Don Petter

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Tony View Post


                  Thank you. That looks like a perfect design for medal and ribbon of The Grand Order of the Hippopotamus.

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    #24
                    Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                    Thank you. That looks like a perfect design for medal and ribbon of The Grand Order of the Hippopotamus.


                    If these awards had any real value, then Tony would certainly deserve one for his lifelong and ongoing services to Music.

                    (The Order of the HIPPopotomus, mayhap? )
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                    • MrGongGong
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 18357

                      #25
                      So how about a list of suitable candidates then?

                      I'm always struck with how much this nonsense is an establishment fest, endless military "honours" with a few crumbs chucked out to the rest

                      So who would get the "services to music" award this year from you folks?

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                      • Black Swan

                        #26
                        I lost faith in the New Years Honors when they gave Bruce Forsythe a Knighthood. I at one time thought they went to outstanding people. But not anymore.

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                        • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                          Late member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 9173

                          #27
                          he is quite tall though i believe
                          According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37595

                            #28
                            Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
                            he is quite tall though i believe
                            Too subtle, Calum.

                            Happy New Year, btw.

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                            • Tony Halstead
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 1717

                              #29
                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post


                              If these awards had any real value, then Tony would certainly deserve one for his lifelong and ongoing services to Music.

                              (The Order of the HIPPopotomus, mayhap? )

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                              • french frank
                                Administrator/Moderator
                                • Feb 2007
                                • 30249

                                #30
                                Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
                                he is quite tall though i believe
                                5ft 11? I'd say RW certainly was outstanding enough to have been given a knighthood then. My impression would be that Alan Davey was more of an MBE - but he may grow into the job!
                                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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