Winners Snort Their Daddies

We knew he was crazier than a crap house rat, but here is the proof.

The nominations for this year's Classic Rock awards have been revealed, and whilst Jimmy Page is set to receive the Living Legend Award, Keith Richards is nominated for his father snorting antics.

The magazine's third annual awards - which are due to be held at London's Landmark Hotel on November 5 - will see Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page honoured as the Living Legend on the Roll Of Honour.

But it is the Event Of The Year category - awarded to the greatest tour, reunion or 'dropped-me-bacon-sandwich-moment' of the past 12 months - which will be raising the most eyebrows.
Undoubtedly fitting into the 'bacon' category, Keith Richards has been nominated for his headline grabbing claim that he snorted his own father's ashes when interviewed earlier this year.

Despite what seemed to be an initial retraction of his comment Richards later told the NME that he did indeed snort his father's remains, but that he certainly didn't (heaven forbid) mix them with cocaine first. That's alright then.

Scott Rowley, Classic Rock editor in chief commented, "We came up with the Event Of The Year category after Pink Floyd closed the show at Live 8 in 2005 to cover those sort of dropped-me-bacon-sandwich moments. Keith Richards confessing to snorting his dad's ashes is more of a dropped-me-bacon-sandwich, trod on the cat and ate the carpet moment.

"Keith snorting his dad has totally upped the ante for bad boy rock star behaviour - and from a 64 year old, that's quite impressive. I'm sure that Ozzy Osbourne's sitting stewing in a corner right now, wondering how he can top it."

Here are the nominations, and I will pick my winners in italics.

Album Of The Year
Buckcherry '15'
Ian Hunter 'Shrunken Heads'
Porcupine Tree 'Fear Of A Black Planet'
Rush 'Snakes & Arrows'
Velvet Revolver 'Libertad'
The Who 'Endless Wire'

Band Of The Year
Aerosmith
Heaven & Hell
Muse
Rush
Velvet Revolver

Best Reissue
Def Leppard 'Hysteria Deluxe Edition'
Kiss 'Alive! 1975-2000'
Whitesnake '1987 20th Anniversary Edition'
Manic Street Preachers 'Everything Must Go 10th Anniversary Edition'
The Pretenders 'The Pretenders'
The Travelling Wilbury’s 'Deluxe Collector’s Edition'

DVD Of The Year
Bob Dylan 'Don’t Look Back'
Free 'Forever'
Metallica 'The Videos 1989-2004'
Man of the World 'The Peter Green Story'
The Police 'Everybody Stares'

Event Of The Year
Aerosmith at Hyde Park
Genesis reform
The Police reform
Lou Reed Berlin concert
Keith Richards snorts his Dad- There is no way he will lose!!
Saxon on Harvey Goldsmith

Best New Band
Black Stone Cherry
Damone
Priestess
Rose Hill Drive
The Trews

Living Legend Award
Jimmy Page