| 27th August 2007 01:27 PM |
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| mrhipfl |
The nominations for this year's Classic Rock awards have been revealed, and whilst Jimmy Page is set to receive the Living Legend Award, Keith Richards is nominated for his father snorting antics.
The magazine's third annual awards - which are due to be held at London's Landmark Hotel on November 5 - will see Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page honoured as the Living Legend on the Roll Of Honour.
Elsewhere, Velvet Revolver, Rush and The Who are amongst those nominated for Album Of The Year for their records 'Libertad', 'Snakes & Arrows' and 'Endless Wire' respectively.
Velvet Revolver will also stand up against Aerosmith, Muse, Rush and Heaven & Hell to scoop the coveted gong for Band Of The Year.
But it is the Event Of The Year category - awarded to the greatest tour, reunion or 'dropped-me-bacon-sandwich-moment' of the past 12 months - which will be raising the most eyebrows.
Undoubtedly fitting into the 'bacon' category, Keith Richards has been nominated for his headline grabbing claim that he snorted his own father's ashes when interviewed earlier this year.
Despite what seemed to be an initial retraction of his comment Richards later told the NME that he did indeed snort his father's remains, but that he certainly didn't (heaven forbid) mix them with cocaine first. That's alright then.
Scott Rowley, Classic Rock editor in chief commented, "We came up with the Event Of The Year category after Pink Floyd closed the show at Live 8 in 2005 to cover those sort of dropped-me-bacon-sandwich moments. Keith Richards confessing to snorting his dad's ashes is more of a dropped-me-bacon-sandwich, trod on the cat and ate the carpet moment.
"Keith snorting his dad has totally upped the ante for bad boy rock star behaviour - and from a 64 year old, that's quite impressive. I'm sure that Ozzy Osbourne's sitting stewing in a corner right now, wondering how he can top it. Pete Doherty's dad should definitely be worried."
Also nominated in the same category are Aerosmith at Hyde Park, the reformations of The Police and Genesis, Lou Reed's Berlin concert, and Saxon on Harvey Goldsmith.
The full list of nominations is as follows:
Album Of The Year
# Buckcherry '15'
# Ian Hunter 'Shrunken Heads'
# Porcupine Tree 'Fear Of A Black Planet'
# Rush 'Snakes & Arrows'
# Velvet Revolver 'Libertad'
# The Who 'Endless Wire'
Band Of The Year
# Aerosmith
# Heaven & Hell
# Muse
# Rush
# Velvet Revolver
Best Reissue
# Def Leppard 'Hysteria Deluxe Edition'
# Kiss 'Alive! 1975-2000'
# Whitesnake '1987 20th Anniversary Edition'
# Manic Street Preachers 'Everything Must Go 10th Anniversary Edition'
# The Pretenders 'The Pretenders'
# The Travelling Wilbury’s 'Deluxe Collector’s Edition'
DVD Of The Year
# Bob Dylan 'Don’t Look Back'
# Free 'Forever'
# Metallica 'The Videos 1989-2004'
# Man of the World 'The Peter Green Story'
# The Police 'Everybody Stares'
Event Of The Year
# Aerosmith at Hyde Park
# Genesis reform
# The Police reform
# Lou Reed Berlin concert
# Keith Richards snorts his Dad
# Saxon on Harvey Goldsmith
Best New Band
# Black Stone Cherry
# Damone
# Priestess
# Rose Hill Drive
# The Trews
Living Legend Award
# Jimmy Page
what a dumb thing to get an award for...how about completing the most successful tour ever? And the biggest bang shoulda been nominated too. |
| 27th August 2007 02:01 PM |
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| gimmekeef |
Only such a lame ass award group would include an "event" that happened a few years ago....Why not the fall from the tree or bush..or weed...whatever it was?
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| 27th August 2007 02:02 PM |
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| Joey |
Album Of The Year
# The Who 'Endless Wire'
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| 27th August 2007 02:05 PM |
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| oldkr |
quote:
gimmekeef wrote:
Why not the fall from the tree or bush..or weed...whatever it was?
i believe bar-stool is the phrase you are looking for
OLDKR |
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