The 7th Orange Amplification Classic Rock n’ Roll of Honor, or Classic Rock Awards, brought together the best and most legendary rock performers and artists of all time last night, November 9, at the Roundhouse in Camden. It continues to distinguish itself as the most prestigious music event in the industry with only the best in the business handing out citations and lifetime achievements to their fellow artists who are of the same esteemed stature.

The event featured rock music icons Jeff Beck, Roger Waters and Lemmy as the night’s biggest winners. Master guitarist Jeff Beck went home with this year’s Living Legend Award. Past recipients of the award are Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop and Rush. Beck received a standing ovation as he shared the stage with another rock icon, Queen’s Roger Taylor who presented the award to him. Roger Waters’ critically acclaimed and sold-out ‘The Wall Live’ tour was named Event of the Year, while Lemmy’s eponymous film bagged the Film/DVD Award.

Famed guitarist Steve Winwood, iconic rock act Queen, Foo Fighters, The Who and Manic Street Preachers were also among the night’s winners. While Joss Stone and Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders performed alongside Jeff Beck.

The event was hosted by Kiss front man and reality TV star Gene Simmons, who was almost at a loss for words when asked for his reaction on hosting the major gig.
“A privilege and an honor wouldn’t cover it.,” he said. “For me this will be a memory of a lifetime. Signed by the God Of Thunder.”

The 2011 Classic Rock Awards was co-presented by currencies.co.uk.

After a successful run in 2010 and 2011, Roger Waters’ ‘The Wall Live’ tour will return to the US and Canada in 2012 on what shapes to be the tour’s last leg. The 36-city trek will now include larger venues such as stadiums and arenas to accommodate the show’s lavish set designs, intricate effects and humongous props.

In September, Waters talked to Rolling Stone about his plans for the tour’s new and probably, more spectacular leg. “We’re going to be projecting over 140 yards. So now it’s going to be 1,500 pixels wide. We’ve done light tests at Fenway Park and Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium just to see what the ambient light is like. And it’s fine. It works.”

The North American leg will kick off in Houston, TX on May 1st, 2012 and wrapping up on July 14th in Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park. Other stops included in the itinerary are San Francisco’s AT&T Park on May 11, the BC Place in Vancouver on May 26, Chicago’s Wrigley Field on June 8, and the Rogers Center in Toronto on June 23. The complete itinerary, which will be announced in detail later, will also include other cities from previous legs where the supposed shows were either canceled or postponed.

Joining the iconic Pink Floyd front man for this leg of the tour are guitarists GE Smith, Snowy White and Dave Kilminster, keyboardists Joe Carin and Harry Waters, drummer Graham Broad, and second and backing vocalists Robbie Wyckoff, Jon Joyce, Pat Lennon, Mark Lennon and Kipp Lennon.

‘The Wall’ is Pink Floyd’s critically acclaimed concept album which was released in 1979. The double album has been performed by Roger Waters and the rest of the band for only 29 times, with Waters performing the concept record as a solo gig in Berlin in 1990, in commemoration of the historic tearing down of the Berlin Wall.

The rock opera was conceived by Waters as his very own back story, chronicling the circumstances that shaped his personality, outlook and life as a whole, which included his father’s passing. The re-imagination and re-launch of the concept production in the form of an extensive world tour, where he plays the entirety of the records at every stop, was his way to include listeners who shared the same story and point of view in the record’s vision, message and universality.