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Awards
Music people get letters off The Queen
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 13 June 2011
So, to celebrate it not being her birthday this weekend, the Queen trooped up some colour and then handed out a bucket full of letters to the great, the good, the tedious, the overpaid and at least one homophobic bus driver.
She also ‘honoured’ some music people, such as Roxy Music man Bryan Ferry, and jazz lady Claire Martin, and Scottish fiddler James Alexander. Behind the scenes BPI chief and former EMI UK boss Tony Wadsworth got an CBE, while former Sony PR man and legendary publicist Gary Farrow was given an OBE for both his services to the music industry and for his charity work.
On the peripheries of the music business, in radio land Emma Freud and the legend that is Bob Harris were both on the honours list, while Sam Taylor Wood, who we are counting as music because she directed a film about John Lennon, got an OBE.
