previn received many prizes and honours. in the united kingdom he was knighted in 1996. he is particularly remembered in britain for a guest appearance he made on the morecambe and wise christmas show in 1971 where eric morecambe (who called him andrew preview) pretended to play the piano concerto by edvard grieg with previn conducting. when previn told him he was playing all the wrong notes, morecambe grabbed him by his jacket and said that he was playing "all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order".