If most of the committees engaged with the Birthday Honours List were searching for Covid Heroes, at least some seem to have been browsing in old vinyl shops.
There are gongs for Lulu, Englebert Humperdinck, Alison Moyet, Rick Wakeman, Skin (from Skunk Anansie), Alan Parsons (of The Alan Parsons Project), British blues singer and actor Ram John Holder, and Alan Hawkshaw.
Alan, formally styled Professor William Alan Hawkshaw, Hammond organ specialist, who has played with Emile Ford and The Checkmates, The Hollies, David Bowie, and The Shadows. In 1982 he wrote the 30 second Countdown chimes theme, (stilling paying royalties each weekday) and in 1984, he wrote Best Endeavours, better known as the Channel 4 News Theme (as previously).
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