In October 1997 King received a Music Industry Trusts Award at a dinner held in his honour at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. A video tribute to him featured Guy Mitchell, Ozzy Osbourne, The Moody Blues and Hanson. The following year he devised "The Record of the Year", produced by his "Tip Sheet" and London Weekend Television, a show in which the public voted for the year's best single. In 2000 Nigel Lythgoe, executive producer of the new "Popstars" talent show, considered hiring King as anchor of its judging panel, but he turned it down. Lythgoe took the position himself.