{"id":1287,"date":"2025-02-08T20:24:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T19:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2025-02-08T20:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T19:32:01","slug":"phil-gets-the-obe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/phil-gets-the-obe\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil gets the OBE."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>I\u2019m both surprised and honoured to be awarded the OBE in today\u2019s King\u2019s Birthday Honours: \u2018Musician and Producer. For Services to Music.\u2019&nbsp; This has a poignancy for me and my family because in 1966 my dad, Duncan Targett-Adams was also awarded the OBE but sadly he died before his investiture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Roxy Music lead guitarist Phil Manzanera, 73, was formally made an OBE by the Princess Royal for his services to music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussing the honour, Manzanera told the PA news agency: \u201cIt\u2019s very moving and humbling to be amongst all these people who do absolutely incredible things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut, obviously, I am very happy to get it for services to music and music production, because I think music helps us all in our lives in terms of improving the fabric of our lives, and it\u2019s a great support for so many people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The musician said he discussed his upbringing in South America and central America with Anne, having grown up in Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said his upbringing was central to his musicianship, adding: \u201cIt\u2019s in my DNA, the rhythms of South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd the musicians that we\u2019ve all come to know through the Buena Vista Social Club were the kind of music that I started playing guitar with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t Bert Weedon\u2019s Play in a Day for me, it was the music of Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Phil-Manzanera-OBE-1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Phil-Manzanera-OBE-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Phil-Manzanera-OBE-1.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Phil-Manzanera-OBE-1-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m both surprised and honoured to be awarded the OBE in today\u2019s King\u2019s Birthday Honours: \u2018Musician and Producer. For Services to Music.\u2019&nbsp; This has a poignancy for me and my family because in 1966 my dad, Duncan Targett-Adams was also awarded the OBE but sadly he died before his investiture. Roxy Music lead guitarist Phil [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manzanera.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}