Queen, Phil Collins and Van Morrison have been added to the Songwriters Hall of Fame with Patti LaBelle, Tony Bennett and label chief Clive Davis at the Awards last Thursday.
Brian May said: "I do think that maybe now people are looking more deeply at what we did. Yes, we were pretty flashy and we were pretty loud and at moments we seemed very outrageous, but there was a lot of honest craftsmanship that went on behind that."