Elton John wins highest accolade - Queen’s New Year’s Honours list

Elton John has been appointed to the Queen's Order of the Companions of Honour in the New Year Honours list for a remarkable music career and his services to charity. He becomes one of only 65 people apart from the monarch who can hold the honour at any one time. Apart from him, Olivia Newton-John, who became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1979, will be made a dame for “services to charity, cancer research and entertainment”, Snow Patrol singer Gary Lightbody will be made an OBE for his services to music and charity in Northern Ireland, graphic designer Peter Saville, who created album covers for Joy Division, New Order, will receive a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and singer Billy Ocean and the Searchers’ Mike Pender will become Members of the Order of the British Empire. BBC...