The Queen to Jimmy Page: "Are you a guitarist too?"

[LynneSin]

Queen hosts pop star bash at Buckingham Palace

Queen Elizabeth II had a crash course in rock and pop music when she hosted a reception at Buckingham Palace for hundreds of stars from Eric Clapton to Geri Halliwell.

Introduced to four guitar masters -- Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Brian May -- at the reception for Britain's music industry her majesty asked: "And what do you do?"

May, from the rock band Queen, reminded the queen that he had played the National Anthem on the palace roof to start a concert marking her 2002 Golden Jubilee.

"Oh! That was you was it?" Elizabeth II 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 her hand, introduced himself by name.

"Have you been playing a long time?" the queen asked.

"It must be 45 years now," replied Clapton, 59

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. hee, hee

Cute!

[Crankie Avalon]

2. I'm almost as out of it with regard to those people as she is...

...(wish I had a blusing smilie, but guess I gotta make do with the angel) O8)

[DS1]

3. Hey, look on the bright side, if it had been Bush

he'd have whipped out a banjo and started a duelin'

/Deliverance

[LynneSin]

4. Damn you, take that back!!!

Now I have this horrible visual in my head of George Bush & Jimmy Page doing "Dualing Banjos"

:grr:

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5. Brian May to the Queen...

"I'm a musician, at least it's an occupation". "What do you do for a living"?

I'd like to know why Johnny Rotton or any of the other Sex Pistols weren't invited?