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received the title Knight Bachelor in the New Year’s honours list for services to music and charity, Sir Brian May, as he is now known, suggests it’s high time people started acting accordingly. ‘People aren’t bowing enough really, and I haven’t got my Round Table yet, but we’re working on it,’ jokes the 75-year-old Queen guitarist, who is married to former EastEnders actress Anita Dobson, 73.