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Reception at Buckingham Palace
on 2005/3/2 19:20:00 (4419 reads)

The Queen has met four of Britain's guitar greats - Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Brian May - at Buckingham Palace.Her Majesty asked the four: "And what do you do?"The four rockers were among 500 celebrities invited to a reception at Buckingham Palace to honour the British music industry.



Queen's Brian May reminded Her Majesty that he played the National Anthem on the roof of the Palace to start the 2002 Golden Jubilee rock concert.
"Oh! That was you was it?" the Queen exclaimed.
Moving on to Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, the Queen inquired: "Are you a guitarist too?"
>Guitar god Eric Clapton took no chances and, firmly shaking the Queen's hand, introduced himself by name.
"Have you been playing a long time?" the Queen asked. "It must be 45 years now," replied Clapton, 59.

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