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Ivor Novello Awards

The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the Cardiff

Cardiff

Cardiff is the Capital , largest city and most populous Unitary authority#Wales in Wales. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for many national cultural and sport institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of Welsh Assembly Government ....
born entertainer Ivor Novello

Ivor Novello

David Ivor Davies , better known as Ivor Novello, was a Wales composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the early 20th century....
, are award

Award

An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signified...
s for songwriting and composing. The "Ivors" are presented annually in London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, and were first introduced in 1955.

The Awards, nicknamed "The Ivors", take place each May and are sponsored by the Performing Right Society

Performing Right Society

PRS for Music, , founded in 1914, is the collecting society for United Kingdom songwriters, composers and Music publisher s. Formed as The MCPS-PRS Alliance in 1997 with the PRS for Music brand adopted in 2009, the organisation brings together two royalty collection societies; MCPS and PRS.....
. They are respected worldwide as the major platform for recognising and rewarding Britain's songwriting and composing talents.

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The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the Cardiff

Cardiff

Ivor Novello

David Ivor Davies , better known as Ivor Novello, was a Wales composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the early 20th century....
, are award

Award

London

Performing Right Society

Euterpe

In Greek mythology, Euterpe was one of the Muses, the daughters of Mnemosyne, fathered by Zeus. Called the "Giver of delight", when later poets assigned roles to each of the Muses, she was the muse of music....
- the muse of lyric poetry. Over 1000 statuettes have been awarded since 1955.

Past recipients include Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
, Neil Innes

Neil Innes

Neil James Innes is an England writer and performer of comic songs, best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python, and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles....
, Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band is led by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris ....
, Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse

Amy Jade Winehouse is an England singer and songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including soul music, jazz, rock & roll, ska and rhythm and blues....
, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam , best known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a Great Britain musician of Greek Cypriot and Sweden ancestry. He is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and prominent Religious conversion to Islam....
), Spice Girls

Spice Girls

The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994. They consist of Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell....
,The Darkness

The Darkness

The Darkness were a multi-BRIT Awards-winning United Kingdom hard rock/glam rock band. Their highly retro style of music was influenced by rock music bands like Queen , Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, M?tley Cr?e, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Sparks , Van Halen, T....
, The Feeling

The Feeling

The Feeling are a five-piece 2007 BRIT Awards-nominated United Kingdom Band from Sussex and London. The band categorise their music as "pop music"....
, Blur, Dido

Dido (singer)

Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong professionally known as Dido is an Dido #Awards England Singer-songwriter....
, Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
, Jeff Lynne

Jeff Lynne

Jeffrey Lynne is a two-time Ivor Novello Awards recipient and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, guitarist and record producer who gained fame as the leader of Electric Light Orchestra and was a co-founder and member of The Traveling Wilburys....
, Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury , was a United Kingdom singer-songwriter, pianist, guitarist and co-founder of the Rock music Musical ensemble Queen . As a performer, he was known for his vocal prowess and flamboyant performances....
(with Queen

Queen (band)

Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
and solo), Brian May, Richard Thompson, Mike Scott, David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
, Ray Davies

Ray Davies

Ray Davies, Order of the British Empire is an English Rock music musician, best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave Davies....
, Martin Gore

Martin Gore

Martin Gore is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist and keyboardist. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode. His work now spans three decades, but he is best known as the composer of chart-topper such as "Personal Jesus" and "Enjoy the Silence"....
, Kate Bush

Kate Bush

Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
, Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
, The Shadows

The Shadows

Nick-named: the Shads, The Shadows are the most successful United Kingdom instrumental and vocal group from the 1950s to the 2000s with an aggregate total of at least 64 UK hit singles....
, Sir John Dankworth

John Dankworth

Sir John Phillip William Dankworth, Order of the British Empire , often known as Johnny Dankworth, is an England jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinetist....
, Cathy Dennis

Cathy Dennis

Cathy Dennis is a Grammy Awards award-winning dance-pop singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. After a moderately successful international solo career, Dennis has latterly achieved great success as a writer of pop songs, scoring seven UK number 1s and winning five Ivor Novello Awards....
, John Lennon

John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
, Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox is a British musician, vocalist and Academy Award-winning songwriter. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the musical duo Eurythmics, hailed as "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by members of the rock industry on the VH1 show 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll in 1999....
, Scott Matthews

Scott Matthews

Scott Matthews , is a singer/songwriter from Wolverhampton, England.His first album Passing Stranger was released on March 13, 2006. Janice Long was the first of the BBC DJs to play his music....
, Sir Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
, Madness

Madness (band)

Madness are an English Pop music/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976. As of 2008, the band have continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although their lineup has varied slightly over the years....
, Duran Duran

Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English music group from Birmingham, United Kingdom. They were one of the most commercially successful of the 1980s bands and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States....
, George Michael

George Michael

Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou , best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, England singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul music-influenced, solo Pop music musician....
, Benny Andersson

Benny Andersson

G?ran Bror Benny Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musical theaters Chess , Kristina fr?n Duvem?la, and Mamma Mia!....
, Björn Ulvaeus

Björn Ulvaeus

Bj?rn Kristian Ulvaeus, , is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musical theaters Chess , Kristina fr?n Duvem?la, and Mamma Mia!....
, Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English people electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main Singing, Keyboard instruments and occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals....
, Fran Healy

Fran Healy

Fran Healy may refer to:*Francis Healy, the lead singer and songwriter of the band Travis*Francis Healy , former baseball player*Fran Healy , former baseball player and former television announcer for the New York Mets....
, Dave Stewart

David A. Stewart

David Allan Stewart, often known as Dave Stewart is an England born British musician and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics....
, Sting, Mike Stock

Mike Stock

Mike Stock is a English people songwriter and record producer best known for being a member of the songwriting and record production trio Stock Aitken Waterman....
, Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams is a Grammy Award-nominated and ten time BRIT Awards-winning England singer-songwriter. His career started as a member of the pop band Take That in 1990, which he left in 1995 to begin his solo career....
, Gary Barlow

Gary Barlow

Gary Barlow is an English singer-songwriter, pianist and Record producer. He is a member of the pop group Take That and was one of the most successful songwriters of the 1990s, penning no fewer than 16 hit singles during the decade....
, Iain Archer

Iain Archer

Iain Archer is a singer/songwriter from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, who was once a secondary lyricist within the indie band Snow Patrol....
, Sir John Tavener

John Tavener

Sir John Tavener is a United Kingdom composer,British honours systemed in 2000 for his services to music....
, David Gilmour

David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour Order of the British Empire , is an England musician, best known as the guitarist, lead singer, and one of the main songwriters in the band Pink Floyd....
(with Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
& solo), Phil Collins

Phil Collins

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
(with Genesis

Genesis (band)

Genesis are an English rock music band formed in 1967. With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are among the top 30 List of best-selling music artists....
& solo), Roger Hodgson

Roger Hodgson

Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson, born 21 March 1950, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England is a United Kingdom vocalist and musician, and he was one of the founding members of the progressive rock group Supertramp....
(with Supertramp

Supertramp

Supertramp were a United Kingdom progressive rock band that released a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and early 1980s.Their early music included ambitious concept albums, but they are best known for their later hits including "Bloody Well Right", "Dreamer ", "Goodbye Stranger", "Give a Little Bit" and "The Logical Song"....
), Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, Order of the British Empire, , is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987....
, Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai are an England acid jazz/funk/Soul music/disco band. Jamiroquai was initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito , the Brand New Heavies, Galliano , and Corduroy ....
and Radiohead

Radiohead

Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway ....
amongst others.

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