The duo of Rupert Lyddon and Lawrence Rudd started as members of a Police and Queen cover band, and those influences rear their head here.

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Rock band Queen have been honoured with a music heritage award at the venue where they performed their first concert in 1970.

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Queen received the global icon award, with band members Brian May and Roger Taylor picking up their honour on the night.

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The need for totality that brings pages about playing the guitar, about drinking tea, about wearing his Doc Martens and listening to his Walkman, about how his brother, Yngve, has always thought the music of Queen unfairly underestimated, about the name of the band that he later formed with his brother (named, rather wonderfully, Kafkatrakterne), also brings superb, lingering, celestial passages, like the one in which Knausgaard cannot sleep, and paces his apartment.

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The band played one gig as guests of British compatriots, Queen, that was broadcast live across the continent winning them new fans, many of whom have stayed loyal over the years.

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Welcomed by about 1, 000 well-wishers, a military band and tri-service guard of honour, the Queen was given a porcelain model of the Brandenburg Gate and the duke a wristwatch by President Kohler and his wife, Eva Luise.

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They know her as Bee the homecoming queen, the rugby captain, the girl who played drums and trumpet in the band.

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