Complex sentence: Thomas Brooman co-founded Real World Records with Peter Gabriel in 1987, and was appointed a CBE in 2008; he was named in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to music and to charity.
Split into simpler sentences: Thomas Brooman co-founded Real World Records with Peter Gabriel in 1987. In 2008 he was appointed a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to music and to charity.