Status Quo get New Year OBEs
After rockin' all over the world for more than 40 years, the two remaining original members of Status Quo are recognised in the New Year Honours List today.
Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi are awarded OBEs for their hugely successful musical career, including more than 118 million record sales worldwide and a record-breaking 64 British hit singles.
Honours also go to 2009 Formula One world champion Jenson Button and the man who made his victory possible, Brawn GP team owner Ross Brawn.
Knighthoods are awarded to Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart and Scottish rugby international-turned-Lions coach Ian McGeechan.
Elsewhere in the sporting world, Beth Tweddle, Britain's most successful gymnast, receives an MBE and former England football captain Jimmy Armfield is given a CBE for his community work in Lancashire.
MBEs go to Claire Taylor, the first woman to be named one of Wisden's cricketers of the year, and Blackburn Rovers and former West Bromwich Albion striker Jason Roberts.
Dr Claire Bertschinger, whose appearance in Michael Buerk's famous 1984 reports on the Ethiopian famine inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, is made a dame for services to nursing and to international humanitarian aid.
In drama, National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner is knighted and Phyllida Lloyd, director of the hit film Mamma Mia!, receives a CBE.
OBEs are awarded to children's author Dick King-Smith, who wrote the book that became the 1995 film Babe, and health writer and broadcaster Dr Miriam Stoppard.
TV wildlife presenter and cameraman Simon King, who appears on the BBC's Springwatch and Autumnwatch series, also gets an OBE.
The co-founders and chefs of the Michelin-starred River Cafe restaurant in west London, Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, receive MBEs for services to the hospitality industry.
