"I don't think Sir Allen is the answer because I don't honestly believe that he is interested in West Indies cricket more than his own interests, " he said.
Sir Michael didn't come from a musical family and, when he was at school, music wasn't taken seriously as a subject on the curriculum of England's schools.
Gates was given honorary knighthood in March, but don't call him Sir William: the title is only good for citizens of the Commonwealth.
Adelaide officials deny this and say delegates got only a cricket bat signed by Australian great Sir Donald Bradman, boomerangs, T-shirts and keyrings.
"I knew there wasn't a lot left in Sir Rembrandt and that Bindaree could gallop home, " said Llewellyn.
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"We've got one group particularly interested in it but whether that will come to anything, I don't know, " said Sir Peter.
By the way, Sir Mervyn made clear he hasn't got a huge amount of confidence that eurozone ministers have yet come up with a plan to cure the disease that underlies all of this, the excessive amounts that the Greek government has borrowed.
Wednesday's team announcement did lay to rest a few worries which had come to the surface when Jeremy Guscott was spotted in the Brewery bar with a mobile phone glued to his ear - although there was some scepticism, the possibility that Guscott was being called up to replace BOD couldn't entirely be discounted given Sir Clive's somewhat erratic selection policy.
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"The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers really didn't like patents, " says Sir George White, keeper of the Clockmakers ' Museum collections.
Newly-knighted MP Liberal Democrat Sir Bob Russell told MPs he didn't want his constituency of Colchester to become part of "clone town Britain".
What do you make of the fact, sir, that the American people don't seem to be outraged that not all the ballots have been counted?
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And if George Osborne agrees with Sir Mervyn that RBS and Lloyds aren't lending enough, then the remedy remains the one it has always been and the one he loathes: he could exercise his rights as their biggest shareholder and order them to increase their appetite for risk.
Paul Carey, a spokesman for Sir Elton in London, said he couldn't comment because he didn't know anything about it.
"Sir John meets many people, but we don't give a running commentary on any of these private meetings, " the spokesman said.
Sir Muir was asked by MPs why he didn't ask specifically if e-mails had been deleted, something that could contravene Freedom of Information laws.
Dame Gillian's fuchsia jacket and Sir John's pinstripe suit - there couldn't have been a more visible changing of the guard at the top of the Welsh civil service.
In fact, T he Independent Commission on Banking, led Sir John Vickers, released its final report last month on how the UK should restructure its banking sector to prevent another financial meltdown.
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She is among five other artists selected this year: Sir Paul McCartney, Merle Haggard, choreographer and dancer Bill T.
He remains the majority shareholder, but as both Sir David and Whyte discovered at Ibrox, that doesn't guarantee control.
Virgin Mobile, a 50-50 joint venture between Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Germany's T-Mobile, parent of the One2One network, claimed year-on-year customer growth of 34%.
"I'm sure they all stood and saluted and said 'Yes sir' and marched out smartly, but I don't think they're all 100% behind it, " he said.
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"I don't think he'll start, " United manager Sir Alex Ferguson told radio station Key103.
That wasn't enough to justify the expense, NICE chief executive Sir Andrew Dillon said.
The way Sir Mervyn tells it, the big disappointment since then hasn't been monetary policy or fiscal policy, but the external environment.
But Sir Peter once told me how he had seen bobbies among the T-shirted crowds of a summer community fete looking more like Robocop than Dixon of Dock Green.
And Britain's trade numbers get revised so often, and so dramatically, that Sir Mervyn King, for one, has said he doesn't take them seriously until they are at least a year old.
What Sir Philip and his chief executive, Stephen Hester, can't control is what happens to RBS's share price - which will have a big bearing on whether the Chancellor, George Osborne, wants to start the privatisation.
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