Seminal rockers Led Zeppelin have been honoured with a top award for their services to music.
The band scooped the Polar Music Prize from the Royal Academy of Music in Swededn and will collect a £70,000 prize.
Jimmy Page and co. will collect the award from King Carl XVI Gustaf when the formal ceremony is held in Sweden in May next year.
The Academy named the band as winners because they were “one of the great pioneers of rock,” reports the BBC.
Previous winners of the award include Sir Paul McCartney and Quincy Jones.
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