Classic Rock monthly music magazine has just published its Roll of Honour Awards as voted for by readers.

Band of the Year, as voted by readers, is Queen + Paul Rodgers. Other winners are listed below...



Winners
Innaugural Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards:

Album of the Year:
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Band of the Year
Queen + Paul Rodgers


Best Reissue
Jeff Beck - Truth

Classic Rock Collection
Deep Purple - the Platinum Collection

DVD of the Year
AC/DC - Family Jewels

Classic Rock Event of the Year
Pink Floyd re-forming for Live 8

Best New Band
The Answer

Comeback of the Year
Billy Idol

Showman Award
Arthur Brown

Classic Songwriter
Ian Hunter

Metal Guru
Judas Priest

VIP Award
Neil Warnock (The Agency)

Classic Rock Inspiration
Tommy Vance

Classic Album
Deep Purple In Rock

Living Legend
Lemmy Kilminster

Source:

http://www.queenworld.com/artman/publish/article_279.shtml

Freddie Mercury, former lead singer of Queen, died exactly 14 years ago.

I like Queen

Hell yes!

That's cool that Queen won band of the year. Queen has always kicked ass, but I haven't heard them performing with Paul Rogers. Is he even close to Freddy?

Pink Floyd is one of my favourite bands too

But Queen is my favourite band #1 (Note avatar and signiture )

Paul Rodgers, in my opinion, doesn't sound a thing like Freddie (not Freddy! ).

He's good, great singer really, but different than Freddie

I just watch ALL (around 2 hrs) of the new Return of the Champions DVD concert with Paul Rodgers.

ROGER TAYLOR HAS GREY HAIR!!!



I hope Queen has a concert in Chicago in 2006. It's already officialy that they will be touring in the U.S. Seatle and Portland are going to be the first 2 cities.

Ian Hunter getting the classic songwriter award? Seems a bit odd considering David Bowie wrote Mott the Hoople's biggest hit. Mind you, did he write "Roll Away the Stone"? I guess that's pretty good.

I for sure dig the Judas Priest, metal guru thing hehe! And yeah, Lemmy of motorhead is a legend :-)

What does John Deacon do now?

That Live 8 Pink Floyd preformance was awsome! Good to see it on there!

I literally cried when Pink Floyd played Live 8. Tears of pure joy, then later on I was crying because the stupid MTV VJs interupted their performance. I did eventually dled the whole performance and it ROCKS!!!

ohhhh deep purple is on there twice

"All the young dudes...carry the news..."

I appreciate Queen for thei talent and really awesome live performances, but they are not really my bag.

oooooh, i like Deep Purple, especially SMOKE ON THE WATER!

Brian May rules.

gawd

Brian May and Anita Dobson only have one wig between them. Ever see then them together? Exactly.

John Deacon is retired I hope he surprisespeople by comin' on stage at the 2006 U.S. tours!



Ya.

The Pink Floyd preformance was great!

Smoke On The Water is a great song So is Child In Time

Freddie Mercury was a great front man, and Queen kicked booty!!!!!
So many singles, many soundtracks....so much unique and timeless work was produced by those guys.
I'm thrilled to hear they're touring agian.
But as much as I like Paul Rodgers, he just can't fill Freddie's shoes. Or his skin-tgiht spandex pants either!!!!

I'm gonna see Queen (most likely) in Chicago March 23rd, '06!