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30
December 2006
Rod
Stewart Is Made A
CBE
Singer
Rod
Stewart
and percussionist Evelyn
Glennie lead arts and
showbiz stars in the New
Year Honours
list.
Rod
Stewart, 61, is made a
CBE after 35 years at
the top of the music
industry.
Glennie
becomes Dame Evelyn in
recognition of her
remarkable career.
Profoundly deaf, she
experiences music by
absorbing
vibrations.
Jazz
pianist George Shearing
is knighted at the age
of 87, while actors
Penelope Keith, Hugh
Laurie and Johnny Briggs
are also
honoured.
Born
blind, Shearing became a
star in the UK in the
1940s and moved to the
US after World War II.
He has collaborated with
the likes of Nat King
Cole, Peggy Lee and Mel
Torme.
There
is also a knighthood for
biographer Michael
Holroyd, whose four-part
work on the life of
George Bernard Shaw was
published between 1988
and 1992.
Actress
Penelope Keith, best
known for her roles in
sitcoms The Good Life
and To the Manor Born,
becomes a CBE, as does
the author of the No 1
Ladies' Detective Agency
books, Alexander McCall
Smith.
Director
Peter Greenaway, whose
work includes Prospero's
Books and The Cook, the
Thief, His Wife &
Her Lover, also becomes
a CBE.
Actor
and comedian Hugh Laurie
is made an OBE after
hitting success in the
US with TV series House,
while fellow actor
Johnny Briggs becomes an
MBE after leaving
Coronation Street, where
he played Mike Baldwin
for 30 years.
Presenter
June Sarpong is made an
MBE for services to
broadcasting and
charity. The 29-year-old
is best known for
hosting Channel 4's T4
strand of youth-oriented
morning programmes, for
which she interviewed
Tony Blair last
year.
Elsewhere
in broadcasting, tennis
commentator John Barrett
is made an MBE, as is
BBC correspondent Brian
Barron and entertainer
Owen Money, a presenter
with BBC Radio Wales for
nearly 20 years. Former
Ofcom boss Stephen
Carter becomes a
CBE.
In
classical music, pianist
Imogen Cooper is made a
CBE, along with composer
and conductor John
Rutter. Fellow composer
Guy Woolfenden becomes
an OBE.
Christopher
Logue - who won the
Whitbread poetry award
in 2005 with Cold Calls
- becomes a CBE, as does
biographer Hilary
Spurling, who won the
overall Whitbread prize
earlier this year for
her two-volume biography
of Matisse.
In
the world of theatre,
London's Old Vic theatre
chief executive Sally
Greene becomes a OBE, as
does director Steven
Pimlott.
Two
stars of folk music are
also honoured. Scottish
singer and broadcaster
Archie Fisher is made an
MBE, along with English
writer and singer
Shirley
Collins.
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