WHETHER TO RECEIVE THE MBE, Britain's highesthonor, from Queen Elizabeth II was a serious conflict for several popularacts of the age: the Beatles at first accepted the high royal award butthen, reckoning with their cooptation by the very establishment theirmusic claimed to tweak--if not in some way rebel against--returned it;the Stones were similarly ambivalent

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