from Classic Rock Magazine, and he also won the award for Event of the Year for the Led Zeppelin concert at the O2 Arena in honour of Ahmet Ertegun. In December 2008 Goldsmith took over the management of Jeff Beck after meeting at the Classic Rock Awards where they were both collecting awards. The National Outdoor Events Association presented Goldsmith with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Outdoor Events Industry in February 2009. The British Music Experience opened at the O2 Arena in March 2009; Goldsmith is chairman of the foundation and of its board. The BME is a registered charity and is the UK's museum of music history, with the purpose to advance the education and appreciation of the art, history and science of music in Britain. It helped over 14,000 students in the last year and administered over £140,000 in education grants for the local community. In September 2009 Goldsmith produced the Tower Festival in the Tower of London which ran for 10 days. Weeks later, Last Night of the Poms starring Dame Edna and Sir Les Patterson went on tour around the UK reviving the hit show from 28 years previous. Before the year was out, Goldsmith produced Andrea Bocelli's UK tour in conjunction with Kilimanjaro, and also produced the first tour by Yusuf, formerly known as Cat Stevens in nearly 30 years. The tour ended with a night at the Royal Albert Hall, which featured a preview section of Yusuf's new musical Moonshadow. 2010 saw the release of Jeff Beck's first studio album in over six years, released on Rhino. In support of this album, entitled Emotion & Commotion, Beck embarked on a tour of Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, the US and Europe. Goldsmith also reassembled legendary rock band Faces to perform a handful of UK dates. In April 2010 Goldsmith was honoured as the International Music Person of the Year for his outstanding contributions to the Music Industry at the Musexpo by the City of West Hollywood. Goldsmith promoted a concert at the beginning of 2011 for the charity Killing Cancer with a lineup of artists including Richard Ashcroft, Bryan Adams, Jeff Beck, Debbie Harry and The Who. In February 2011 Goldsmith produced City Rocks, which was in support of the Lord Mayor's Appeal, attended by the Lord Mayor of London, Alderman Michael Bear and the Lady Mayoress, Barbara Bear. City Rocks was the