World snooker champion John Higgins is made an MBE for services to the game, as is Ian Anderson, frontman of veteran rock band Jethro Tull.

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He went on to engineer albums by the likes of Jethro Tull and Mott the Hoople, with producing credits including Free's Highway and Television's critically-acclaimed Marquee Moon.

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They told the hearing Hammerton had been involved in the attempted sale of a host of other star names, including Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, Paul and Linda McCartney and Jethro Tull.

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Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, who enters his 45th year in the music industry in 2008, is made an MBE, as is Martin Mills, founder of the Beggars Group of independent labels.

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"Peter was in Yes when they were formulating what would become their classic sound and they were as much a figurehead of progressive rock in its classic era as the likes of Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson and Jethro Tull, " he said.

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