Rock veterans Status Quo are to be honoured with a lifetime achievement prize at the Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards this summer.

Quo have been amassing chart hits for more than 40 years and are still on the road.

Quo frontmen Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt visited Buckingham Palace last year to collect OBEs.

Others to be honoured at the event at the London Hilton on July 1 are Annie Lennox, Tinie Tempah and Alfie Boe.