Q inspired in AARP awards coverage
Coverage of AARP the Magazine’s Inspire Awards, held Monday (December 8 ) in Washington, D.C., continues to roll in, with Quincy plugging his push for a secretary of the arts at every opportunity.
Washington Post Reliable Source columnists Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts caught Quincy at the event still enthused about the Kennedy Center Honors, which were held on Sunday (December 7). “So many friends who were there last night. . . . Peter Townshend, I knew him when he had hair,” Quincy quipped to the columnists. “A lot of hair. Roger [Daltrey] still has his hair.”
You can read the complete column here.
Quincy and Townshend, the legendary songwriter and guitarist of The Who, are following some of the same paths. Townshend and his Who band mate, singer Roger Daltrey, picked up Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday. Quincy was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor in 2001. But that’s not all. Townshed was the keynote speaker at the South By Southwest Music Conference in 2007. Quincy will handle the honor in 2009.
Like the Post, the Examiner’s Yeas & Nays columnists Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin caught Quincy joking around with his longtime friend Colin Powell, whose wife, Alma, was also honored with an Inspire Award for her work as an advocate for children. When the joking stopped, Colin Powell referred to Quincy as “my brother,” and Q once again put in a plug for the secretary of the arts post.
You can read the whole column here.
At the Inspire Awards, Quincy was honored along with nine other “extraordinary people age 50 and over who have made the world a better place through their innovative thinking, passion, and perseverance,” according to AARP. Q was singled out as a “global poverty fighter.”
One hair one SYMBOLIZES HUMAN NATURE it. were pulled hair and gave it. For poverty.