Oi! Get back to singing, you pretentious git!

Irish rock star and global humanitarian Bono became a knight of the British empire Thursdayâ€"just don’t call him `sir.’

"You have permission to call me anything you wantâ€"except sir, all right? Lord of lords, your demigodness, that’ll do," Bono, 46, told reporters after he was crowned a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in a jokey, informal ceremony in the Dublin home of British Ambassador David Reddaway.

Reddaway paid ...