Robert Plant Awarded CBE

added 31 December 2008 at 11.54

Led Zeppelin man is given the gong in the New Year's Honours List...

Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant is to be made a CBE as part of The Queen's New Year's Honours List. The 60-year-old singer, whose on-off commitment to the Led Zep reunion has been one of 2008's most enduring stories, will become a Commander Of The British Empire following a visit to Buckingham Palace in the New Year. It caps a great 2008 for Plant, which has also include a Mercury Music Prize nomination for his album with Alison Krauss, 'Raising Sand'.

Also honoured in the list are fantasy author Terry Pratchett (who gets a knighthood for services to literature), jazz musician Courtney Pine, actor Michael "Tony Blair" Sheen and actress Liz "Nana Royle" Smith.

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