The Ivors 2015

For the year 2014 The Ivor Novello Awards celebrate, honour and reward excellence in songwriting and composing They are presented and judged by the writing community

Grosvenor House A JW Marriott Hotel Park Lane London

Thursday 21st May 2015 Hosted by Paul Gambaccini

The Ivors are founded in the name of Ivor Novello

For the year 2014 The Ivor Novello Awards celebrate, honour and reward excellence in songwriting and composing They are presented and judged by the writing community

Grosvenor House A JW Marriott Hotel Park Lane London

Thursday 21st May 2015 Hosted by Paul Gambaccini

The Ivors are founded in the name of Ivor Novello

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Cured and smoked Loch Fyne salmon, crème fraiche, Avruga caviar, dill oil

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Cornish lamb crusted with parsley, grain mustard sauce, celeriac and potato gratin, Provencal courgettes, green beans Lemongrass crème brulée, pineapple, passion fruit and coconut sorbet, pistachio biscuit Coffee Petits Fours

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Menu Welcome to The Ivors 2015 The Judges Presentation Order Roll of Honour

The Awards 19 23 25 29 30 31 35 39 43 47 49 53 59 63 67

PRS for Music Most Performed Work Best Television Soundtrack Outstanding Song Collection The Ivors Classical Music Award Album Award Best Song Musically and Lyrically PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution to British Music Best Original Film Score Songwriter of the Year The Ivors Inspiration Award Best Contemporary Song The Ivors Special Anniversary Award Lifetime Achievement PRS for Music Special International Award BASCA Fellowship

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Menu

Contents

Cured and smoked Loch Fyne salmon, crème fraiche, Avruga caviar, dill oil

02 05 - 13 12 15 70

Cornish lamb crusted with parsley, grain mustard sauce, celeriac and potato gratin, Provencal courgettes, green beans Lemongrass crème brulée, pineapple, passion fruit and coconut sorbet, pistachio biscuit Coffee Petits Fours

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Menu Welcome to The Ivors 2015 The Judges Presentation Order Roll of Honour

The Awards 19 23 25 29 30 31 35 39 43 47 49 53 59 63 67

PRS for Music Most Performed Work Best Television Soundtrack Outstanding Song Collection The Ivors Classical Music Award Album Award Best Song Musically and Lyrically PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution to British Music Best Original Film Score Songwriter of the Year The Ivors Inspiration Award Best Contemporary Song The Ivors Special Anniversary Award Lifetime Achievement PRS for Music Special International Award BASCA Fellowship

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BASCA Simon Darlow

BASCA Welcome

TO ALL THE WINNERS AND NOMINEES OF THIS YEAR’S IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS

Welcome to the Ivor Novello Awards.

BASCA is extremely proud that we have presented these awards every year for the last 60 years. They have remained true to their aim, which is to raise the profile of British and Irish songwriters and composers and celebrate the excellence of their creations. It’s what BASCA is here to do – to celebrate, protect, speak up for and support composers and songwriters of all genres.

In this milestone 60th year it’s important to thank a host of people, some of whom have worked with us for a long time, who will ensure today is a success BASCA is indebted to The Ivors Committee Chairman Gary Osborne and all the writers who have given up their time to be judges.

We are grateful to Derek Healey and Capitol House Productions who have created the stage presentation for the last 25 years; Mark Fishlock and Tom Robinson who have given us the script and narration respectively; to our inimitable host Paul Gambaccini who will present today for the 28th consecutive year; the team at the Grosvenor House who have looked after us since 1977; Fran Matthews for organising the awards and everyone else behind the scenes at BASCA who will ensure today is as memorable as ever.

The Ivor Novello Award statuette is a beautiful thing (called Euterpe after the Goddess of music, song and dance) and BASCA is particularly grateful to Mike Wilson, who has cast and hand finished each individual statuette for 40 years.

My final thanks go to our sponsor PRS for Music, who have supported The Ivors since 1974.

I wish everyone a great day and in particular those nominated and those who will collect one of our beautiful statuettes today.

BASCA proudly represents composers and songwriters across all genres

Huge Congratulations!

Simon Darlow BASCA Chairman

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BASCA Simon Darlow

BASCA Welcome

TO ALL THE WINNERS AND NOMINEES OF THIS YEAR’S IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS

Welcome to the Ivor Novello Awards.

BASCA is extremely proud that we have presented these awards every year for the last 60 years. They have remained true to their aim, which is to raise the profile of British and Irish songwriters and composers and celebrate the excellence of their creations. It’s what BASCA is here to do – to celebrate, protect, speak up for and support composers and songwriters of all genres.

In this milestone 60th year it’s important to thank a host of people, some of whom have worked with us for a long time, who will ensure today is a success BASCA is indebted to The Ivors Committee Chairman Gary Osborne and all the writers who have given up their time to be judges.

We are grateful to Derek Healey and Capitol House Productions who have created the stage presentation for the last 25 years; Mark Fishlock and Tom Robinson who have given us the script and narration respectively; to our inimitable host Paul Gambaccini who will present today for the 28th consecutive year; the team at the Grosvenor House who have looked after us since 1977; Fran Matthews for organising the awards and everyone else behind the scenes at BASCA who will ensure today is as memorable as ever.

The Ivor Novello Award statuette is a beautiful thing (called Euterpe after the Goddess of music, song and dance) and BASCA is particularly grateful to Mike Wilson, who has cast and hand finished each individual statuette for 40 years.

My final thanks go to our sponsor PRS for Music, who have supported The Ivors since 1974.

I wish everyone a great day and in particular those nominated and those who will collect one of our beautiful statuettes today.

BASCA proudly represents composers and songwriters across all genres

Huge Congratulations!

Simon Darlow BASCA Chairman

www.basca.org.uk facebook.com/bascauk

BRITISH ACADEMY OF SONGWRITERS, COMPOSERS & AUTHORS

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BASCA

Sixty years ago, in 1955, the Ivor Novello Awards launched.

Organised by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA, which was then called the Songwriters Guild of Great Britain), the idea for the ceremony came from BASCA’s inaugural Chairman, the late Bruce Sievier and his fellow songwriters in order to champion and promote British songwriting. It was named in honour of one of the Guild’s founding members, Welsh composer David Ivor Davies (Ivor Novello), who had tragically died a few years earlier. Novello is largely considered one of the most successful music theatre composers of the 20th century, known for his wartime ballads, as well as hugely popular musicals.

to campaign to receive a fair share of revenue generated from the sale of their music. When radio was first introduced, songwriters were paid no royalties at all, told they should be glad for the ‘advertising’. In the 1980s, the same happened with the rise of MTV and the other new TV channels showing back to back music videos. Today something similar is happening with digital royalties.

Thus the first ceremony took place in 1956, honouring songs released the previous year. Since then, the awards have grown to become one of the most prestigious in the music industry calendar – hosted by, as well as awarded to, the cream of songwriting and composing talent.

So BASCA launched its The Day The Music Died campaign, asking to have more transparency around digital deals, to achieve a fairer share of digital royalty income and advertising revenues linked to our members’ works and to have better protection online both through search engines and the easier removal of infringing websites and apps.

It has sparked a vital debate across the industry and one that will continue.

Harry Hammond/V&A Images/Getty Images

Sixty Years of BASCA and the Ivor Novello Awards

While the music industry has undergone seismic changes during the last 60 years, the original purpose of The Ivors is perhaps more important than ever; promoting excellence in British and Irish songwriting and thus ensuring the creators honoured at The Ivors every year are able to continue creating. Because ever since the dawn of the music business, from radio to vinyl, cassettes to CD, and downloads to streaming, songwriters and composers have had

And those campaigns are only a small slice of the story. We have also introduced a number of successful online initiatives aimed at attracting students and others in the early stages of songwriting and composing careers. We hosted over 36 separate member events throughout 2014 including a songwriting retreat, song critique sessions, contract and legal advice, a ‘shiny floor’ seminar given by our professional TV composers on the

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Lisa Barber

Amongst the 750 British and Irish songwriters and composers celebrated by The Ivors over the years are The Beatles, Sting, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Elton John and Queen. In more recent years, Tinie Tempah, the late Amy Winehouse, Adele, Lily Allen and Dizzee Rascal have all been Ivor Novello Award recipients, as well as Iain Archer (the man behind Snow Patrol’s Run), Mark Hill (aka Artful Dodger, whose stand out classics include ReRewind feat. Craig David) and Cathy Dennis (who wrote Toxic for Britney Spears to name but one on her many hits).

Meanwhile, collaborative work with The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA), PRS for Music, UK Music, higher education providers and a growing number of partner organisations continue to Annunzio Paolo Mantovani and John Dankworth at the 1957 Ivor Novello Awards strengthen BASCA’s voice throughout Europe. Lobbying for change takes a collective of voices and the Media Executive, NLP to overcome writer’s block and even more there are, the harder it is for them to be ignored. wine tasting to keep the creative juices flowing!

BASCA 2015 Spring Party

As you can see BASCA is working to ensure there are Ivor Novello Awards winners for many more years to come. So enjoy the glitz, the glamour, and the huge celebration that The Ivors should rightfully be. But most importantly, thank BASCA, for all the work it does throughout the year to ensure the community survives whatever changes the next 60 years might bring.

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BASCA

Sixty years ago, in 1955, the Ivor Novello Awards launched.

Organised by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA, which was then called the Songwriters Guild of Great Britain), the idea for the ceremony came from BASCA’s inaugural Chairman, the late Bruce Sievier and his fellow songwriters in order to champion and promote British songwriting. It was named in honour of one of the Guild’s founding members, Welsh composer David Ivor Davies (Ivor Novello), who had tragically died a few years earlier. Novello is largely considered one of the most successful music theatre composers of the 20th century, known for his wartime ballads, as well as hugely popular musicals.

to campaign to receive a fair share of revenue generated from the sale of their music. When radio was first introduced, songwriters were paid no royalties at all, told they should be glad for the ‘advertising’. In the 1980s, the same happened with the rise of MTV and the other new TV channels showing back to back music videos. Today something similar is happening with digital royalties.

Thus the first ceremony took place in 1956, honouring songs released the previous year. Since then, the awards have grown to become one of the most prestigious in the music industry calendar – hosted by, as well as awarded to, the cream of songwriting and composing talent.

So BASCA launched its The Day The Music Died campaign, asking to have more transparency around digital deals, to achieve a fairer share of digital royalty income and advertising revenues linked to our members’ works and to have better protection online both through search engines and the easier removal of infringing websites and apps.

It has sparked a vital debate across the industry and one that will continue.

Harry Hammond/V&A Images/Getty Images

Sixty Years of BASCA and the Ivor Novello Awards

While the music industry has undergone seismic changes during the last 60 years, the original purpose of The Ivors is perhaps more important than ever; promoting excellence in British and Irish songwriting and thus ensuring the creators honoured at The Ivors every year are able to continue creating. Because ever since the dawn of the music business, from radio to vinyl, cassettes to CD, and downloads to streaming, songwriters and composers have had

And those campaigns are only a small slice of the story. We have also introduced a number of successful online initiatives aimed at attracting students and others in the early stages of songwriting and composing careers. We hosted over 36 separate member events throughout 2014 including a songwriting retreat, song critique sessions, contract and legal advice, a ‘shiny floor’ seminar given by our professional TV composers on the

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Lisa Barber

Amongst the 750 British and Irish songwriters and composers celebrated by The Ivors over the years are The Beatles, Sting, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Elton John and Queen. In more recent years, Tinie Tempah, the late Amy Winehouse, Adele, Lily Allen and Dizzee Rascal have all been Ivor Novello Award recipients, as well as Iain Archer (the man behind Snow Patrol’s Run), Mark Hill (aka Artful Dodger, whose stand out classics include ReRewind feat. Craig David) and Cathy Dennis (who wrote Toxic for Britney Spears to name but one on her many hits).

Meanwhile, collaborative work with The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA), PRS for Music, UK Music, higher education providers and a growing number of partner organisations continue to Annunzio Paolo Mantovani and John Dankworth at the 1957 Ivor Novello Awards strengthen BASCA’s voice throughout Europe. Lobbying for change takes a collective of voices and the Media Executive, NLP to overcome writer’s block and even more there are, the harder it is for them to be ignored. wine tasting to keep the creative juices flowing!

BASCA 2015 Spring Party

As you can see BASCA is working to ensure there are Ivor Novello Awards winners for many more years to come. So enjoy the glitz, the glamour, and the huge celebration that The Ivors should rightfully be. But most importantly, thank BASCA, for all the work it does throughout the year to ensure the community survives whatever changes the next 60 years might bring.

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PRS for Music Guy Fletcher

Sponsor’s Welcome Congratulations to BASCA for giving us 60 years of these fabulous awards and of course special congratulations to all the nominees and winners we will be seeing today.

Awarded to songwriters, composers and their publishers, Ivor Novello Awards are simply the most prestigious accolade in the world for creators of music, not least because they are given by creators of music for commercial success as well as excellence.

PRS for Music is delighted once again to give sponsorship and support to The Ivors in this important anniversary year.

By coincidence, it’s an anniversary for me too. It is 50 years since I joined PRS and over this half-century I have seen The Ivors from every angle. As a nominee, a winner, as BASCA Chairman for many years and now as Chairman of PRS. I feel very honoured indeed to have made this long journey and still be able to make it on to the stage!

I have never lost the sense of awe I feel when sitting down with so many extraordinary talents. I thank them from the bottom of my heart for doing what they do and for the inspiration they give to all of us.

Have a fabulous day.

Guy Fletcher OBE PRS Chairman

Together we're stronger We’re honoured to have worked for songwriters, composers and publishers for more than 100 years, ensuring your voice is heard.

Proud sponsor of The Ivors prsformusic.com m-magazine.co.uk

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PRS for Music Guy Fletcher

Sponsor’s Welcome Congratulations to BASCA for giving us 60 years of these fabulous awards and of course special congratulations to all the nominees and winners we will be seeing today.

Awarded to songwriters, composers and their publishers, Ivor Novello Awards are simply the most prestigious accolade in the world for creators of music, not least because they are given by creators of music for commercial success as well as excellence.

PRS for Music is delighted once again to give sponsorship and support to The Ivors in this important anniversary year.

By coincidence, it’s an anniversary for me too. It is 50 years since I joined PRS and over this half-century I have seen The Ivors from every angle. As a nominee, a winner, as BASCA Chairman for many years and now as Chairman of PRS. I feel very honoured indeed to have made this long journey and still be able to make it on to the stage!

I have never lost the sense of awe I feel when sitting down with so many extraordinary talents. I thank them from the bottom of my heart for doing what they do and for the inspiration they give to all of us.

Have a fabulous day.

Guy Fletcher OBE PRS Chairman

Together we're stronger We’re honoured to have worked for songwriters, composers and publishers for more than 100 years, ensuring your voice is heard.

Proud sponsor of The Ivors prsformusic.com m-magazine.co.uk

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PRS for Music Robert Ashcroft

PRS for Music Welcome to the 60th Ivor Novello Awards, presented by BASCA in association with PRS for Music.

Last year PRS for Music celebrated 100 years of service to the music industry and this year sees us entering a fifth decade of sponsorship of The Ivors.

Today we honour those members of our organisation and of our sister societies around the world whose music has been judged by their peers to have achieved particular distinction.

We celebrate not only the continued success of British music in a year when it again dominated the charts at home, in Europe and in the United States but also the life work of a great American songwriter and tireless champion of creators’ rights.

Our organisation is proud to have made one of the highest royalty distributions in its history, with £565.6m distributed to members in 2014.

The royalties we collect on your behalf make it possible for you to create more of the globally successful music we hear today. Our commitment to supporting the value of your music, both now and in the future, remains as firm as ever.

Congratulations to all The Ivors nominees and winners. Enjoy your day.

Robert Ashcroft Chief Executive, PRS for Music

Future focused The way we all enjoy music has changed. We’re here to help our songwriter, composer and publisher members take advantage of new digital opportunities.

Proud sponsor of The Ivors prsformusic.com m-magazine.co.uk

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PRS for Music Robert Ashcroft

PRS for Music Welcome to the 60th Ivor Novello Awards, presented by BASCA in association with PRS for Music.

Last year PRS for Music celebrated 100 years of service to the music industry and this year sees us entering a fifth decade of sponsorship of The Ivors.

Today we honour those members of our organisation and of our sister societies around the world whose music has been judged by their peers to have achieved particular distinction.

We celebrate not only the continued success of British music in a year when it again dominated the charts at home, in Europe and in the United States but also the life work of a great American songwriter and tireless champion of creators’ rights.

Our organisation is proud to have made one of the highest royalty distributions in its history, with £565.6m distributed to members in 2014.

The royalties we collect on your behalf make it possible for you to create more of the globally successful music we hear today. Our commitment to supporting the value of your music, both now and in the future, remains as firm as ever.

Congratulations to all The Ivors nominees and winners. Enjoy your day.

Robert Ashcroft Chief Executive, PRS for Music

Future focused The way we all enjoy music has changed. We’re here to help our songwriter, composer and publisher members take advantage of new digital opportunities.

Proud sponsor of The Ivors prsformusic.com m-magazine.co.uk

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The Judges and The Ivors Committee

The Ivors Committee Gary Osborne

The Judges

The Ivors Committee The wonderful thing about music is that it helps us wear our emotions a little closer to the surface of our skin. Songs can help us to laugh, cry, celebrate, mourn, dance and fall in love (although ideally not all at the same time) but can a song make a difference?

The Ivor Novello Awards are presented by the writing community and BASCA would like to thank all who sat on this year’s award panels and the members of The Ivors Committee: Kim Appleby Gary Barlow Martin Brammer Guy Chambers James Chapman Cathy Dennis Sam Duckworth Skye Edwards Paul Farrer Martin Fry Gabrielle Paul Gambaccini Graham Gouldman Christopher Gunning Christian Henson Jonathan Higgs Mark Hill Richard Jacques Tandis Jenhudson Nik Kershaw Mick Leeson Shaznay Lewis

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Helienne Lindvall Brian Lock Omar Lye-Fook Rob Manning Simon May Jennie Muskett Gary Osborne Justin Parker Andy Price Tim Rice-Oxley Tom Robinson Laura Rossi Nitin Sawhney Ilona Sekacz Francis Shaw Sharleen Spiteri Mima Stilwell Sway Shirley Thompson Sheridan Tongue Judie Tzuke Isobel Waller-Bridge

Ivor Novello’s Keep The Home Fires Burning helped us win a war, We Shall Overcome became an anthem for the oppressed, Tom Robinson’s Glad To Be Gay made us think a little more deeply about issues of sexuality, Ebony And Ivory set a template for racial harmony and Candle In The Wind (Goodbye England’s Rose) captured the mood of a nation in mourning. So yes, I do believe that a song can make a difference.

Among the many great songs we honour today is the one that made the biggest difference of all ... a song that actually saved lives. If I live to be a hundred I’ll never write a song that important and even if I did I couldn’t promise to give away all the royalties.

So I guess I’ll just console myself with something Carole King said to her mother in Beautiful, the show about her life ...

“When you hear a song you love ... It’s like somebody understands you” If even one of my songs has ever made anyone feel that way .. that’s enough for me.

Have a great day!

Gary Osborne The Ivors Committee Chairman

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The Judges and The Ivors Committee

The Ivors Committee Gary Osborne

The Judges

The Ivors Committee The wonderful thing about music is that it helps us wear our emotions a little closer to the surface of our skin. Songs can help us to laugh, cry, celebrate, mourn, dance and fall in love (although ideally not all at the same time) but can a song make a difference?

The Ivor Novello Awards are presented by the writing community and BASCA would like to thank all who sat on this year’s award panels and the members of The Ivors Committee: Kim Appleby Gary Barlow Martin Brammer Guy Chambers James Chapman Cathy Dennis Sam Duckworth Skye Edwards Paul Farrer Martin Fry Gabrielle Paul Gambaccini Graham Gouldman Christopher Gunning Christian Henson Jonathan Higgs Mark Hill Richard Jacques Tandis Jenhudson Nik Kershaw Mick Leeson Shaznay Lewis

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Helienne Lindvall Brian Lock Omar Lye-Fook Rob Manning Simon May Jennie Muskett Gary Osborne Justin Parker Andy Price Tim Rice-Oxley Tom Robinson Laura Rossi Nitin Sawhney Ilona Sekacz Francis Shaw Sharleen Spiteri Mima Stilwell Sway Shirley Thompson Sheridan Tongue Judie Tzuke Isobel Waller-Bridge

Ivor Novello’s Keep The Home Fires Burning helped us win a war, We Shall Overcome became an anthem for the oppressed, Tom Robinson’s Glad To Be Gay made us think a little more deeply about issues of sexuality, Ebony And Ivory set a template for racial harmony and Candle In The Wind (Goodbye England’s Rose) captured the mood of a nation in mourning. So yes, I do believe that a song can make a difference.

Among the many great songs we honour today is the one that made the biggest difference of all ... a song that actually saved lives. If I live to be a hundred I’ll never write a song that important and even if I did I couldn’t promise to give away all the royalties.

So I guess I’ll just console myself with something Carole King said to her mother in Beautiful, the show about her life ...

“When you hear a song you love ... It’s like somebody understands you” If even one of my songs has ever made anyone feel that way .. that’s enough for me.

Have a great day!

Gary Osborne The Ivors Committee Chairman

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Presentation Order

Presentation Order PRS for Music Most Performed Work Best Television Soundtrack Outstanding Song Collection The Ivors Classical Music Award Album Award Best Song Musically and Lyrically PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution to British Music Best Original Film Score Songwriter of the Year

The Ivor Novello Awards ceremony provides a wonderful opportunity for a new generation of music lovers to become aware of this legendary composer who died in 1951.

The directors of The Ivor Novello Trust are very grateful to BASCA for keeping his name and work in the public eye. The four theatrical charities listed here are the beneficiaries of the legacy of Ivor’s wonderful music.

THE ACTORS’ BENEVOLENT FUND provides help to actors and their dependants because of illness, injury or old age.

THE ACTORS’ CHILDREN’S TRUST helps the children of professional actors.

THE KING GEORGE V FUND pays regular grants to actors who have rendered such service to the profession as to merit recognition.

The Ivors Inspiration Award Best Contemporary Song The Ivors Special Anniversary Award Lifetime Achievement PRS for Music Special International Award BASCA Fellowship

THE ROYAL THEATRICAL FUND is the only fund that can assist every branch of the entertainment industry.

On behalf of all of them, we wish the day a resounding success.

Simon Williams, Chairman of The Ivor Novello Trust.

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Presentation Order

Presentation Order PRS for Music Most Performed Work Best Television Soundtrack Outstanding Song Collection The Ivors Classical Music Award Album Award Best Song Musically and Lyrically PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution to British Music Best Original Film Score Songwriter of the Year

The Ivor Novello Awards ceremony provides a wonderful opportunity for a new generation of music lovers to become aware of this legendary composer who died in 1951.

The directors of The Ivor Novello Trust are very grateful to BASCA for keeping his name and work in the public eye. The four theatrical charities listed here are the beneficiaries of the legacy of Ivor’s wonderful music.

THE ACTORS’ BENEVOLENT FUND provides help to actors and their dependants because of illness, injury or old age.

THE ACTORS’ CHILDREN’S TRUST helps the children of professional actors.

THE KING GEORGE V FUND pays regular grants to actors who have rendered such service to the profession as to merit recognition.

The Ivors Inspiration Award Best Contemporary Song The Ivors Special Anniversary Award Lifetime Achievement PRS for Music Special International Award BASCA Fellowship

THE ROYAL THEATRICAL FUND is the only fund that can assist every branch of the entertainment industry.

On behalf of all of them, we wish the day a resounding success.

Simon Williams, Chairman of The Ivor Novello Trust.

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GE O R G E E Z R A

B OY G E O RG E

WINNER

PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution to British Music

NOMINEE

PRS for Music Most Performed Work – “Budapest”

FK A TW I G S

BMG CHRYSALIS CONGRATULATES ITS WINNERS AND NOMINEES AT THE 2015 IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS

NOMINEE

Best Contemporary Song – “Two Weeks”

PAU L W I LLI AM S

J O E L P OT T

WINNER

PRS for Music Special International Award

NOMINEE

PRS for Music Most Performed Work – “Budapest”

GE O R G E E Z R A

B OY G E O RG E

WINNER

PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution to British Music

NOMINEE

PRS for Music Most Performed Work – “Budapest”

FK A TW I G S

BMG CHRYSALIS CONGRATULATES ITS WINNERS AND NOMINEES AT THE 2015 IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS

NOMINEE

Best Contemporary Song – “Two Weeks”

PAU L W I LLI AM S

J O E L P OT T

WINNER

PRS for Music Special International Award

NOMINEE

PRS for Music Most Performed Work – “Budapest”

Awards PRS for Music Most Performed Work

This award is based upon broadcast, online and general performance data for 2014 compiled by our sponsor, PRS for Music.

PRS for Music Most Performed Work The Nominees Budapest Written by: George Ezra Barnett and Joel Pott Performed by: George Ezra UK Publisher: BMG Chrysalis

Rather Be Written by: James Napier and Jack Patterson Performed by: Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne UK Publisher: Universal Music Publishing – Salli Isaak Songs / Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Stay With Me

Songwriting celebration Congratulations to all nominees and winners at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards.

We are proud to support you, your music and The Ivors.

Proud sponsor of The Ivors prsformusic.com m-magazine.co.uk

Written by: James Napier, William Phillips and Sam Smith Performed by: Sam Smith UK Publisher: Universal Music Publishing – Salli Isaak Songs – Method Paperwork / Naughty Words Ltd – Stellar Songs Ltd – Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Last year’s winner Let Her Go Written by Mike Rosenberg

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Awards PRS for Music Most Performed Work

This award is based upon broadcast, online and general performance data for 2014 compiled by our sponsor, PRS for Music.

PRS for Music Most Performed Work The Nominees Budapest Written by: George Ezra Barnett and Joel Pott Performed by: George Ezra UK Publisher: BMG Chrysalis

Rather Be Written by: James Napier and Jack Patterson Performed by: Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne UK Publisher: Universal Music Publishing – Salli Isaak Songs / Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Stay With Me

Songwriting celebration Congratulations to all nominees and winners at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards.

We are proud to support you, your music and The Ivors.

Proud sponsor of The Ivors prsformusic.com m-magazine.co.uk

Written by: James Napier, William Phillips and Sam Smith Performed by: Sam Smith UK Publisher: Universal Music Publishing – Salli Isaak Songs – Method Paperwork / Naughty Words Ltd – Stellar Songs Ltd – Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Last year’s winner Let Her Go Written by Mike Rosenberg

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CONGRATULATIONS TO

GEORGE

EZRA

BMI CONGRATULATES OUR 2015 IVOR NOVELLO NOMINEES AND HONOREES

Sam Smith

Ed Sheeran

Songwriter of the Year

Hozier (BMI/IMRO)

NOMINATED FOR PRS FOR MUSIC MOST PERFORMED WORK

BUDAPEST

Boy George

PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution to British Music

FKA Twigs

FROM EVERYONE AT COLUMBIA RECORDS AND SONY MUSIC

Jack Patterson

Wild Beasts

David Holmes (BMI)

Andrew Davie

George Ezra

Joel Pott

We join BASCA in saluting all of today’s nominees and honorees Jack Steadman

WE ARE PROUD TO REPRESENT YOUR PERFORMING RIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES

All writers via PRS for Music, unless noted.

SIMON ALDRIDGE

Senior Executive, Writer-Publisher Relations, Europe

BRANDON BAKSHI

Executive Director, Writer-Publisher Relations, Europe & Asia

TINA HART

Executive, Writer-Publisher Relations, Europe

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CONGRATULATIONS TO

GEORGE

EZRA

BMI CONGRATULATES OUR 2015 IVOR NOVELLO NOMINEES AND HONOREES

Sam Smith

Ed Sheeran

Songwriter of the Year

Hozier (BMI/IMRO)

NOMINATED FOR PRS FOR MUSIC MOST PERFORMED WORK

BUDAPEST

Boy George

PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution to British Music

FKA Twigs

FROM EVERYONE AT COLUMBIA RECORDS AND SONY MUSIC

Jack Patterson

Wild Beasts

David Holmes (BMI)

Andrew Davie

George Ezra

Joel Pott

We join BASCA in saluting all of today’s nominees and honorees Jack Steadman

WE ARE PROUD TO REPRESENT YOUR PERFORMING RIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES

All writers via PRS for Music, unless noted.

SIMON ALDRIDGE

Senior Executive, Writer-Publisher Relations, Europe

BRANDON BAKSHI

Executive Director, Writer-Publisher Relations, Europe & Asia

TINA HART

Executive, Writer-Publisher Relations, Europe

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Best Television Soundtrack recognises outstanding composition for a television programme and in particular how well the music enhances the visual content.

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We’re an independent, professional, not-for-profit association driven to ensure that our members’ needs are always taken into account when it really matters.

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ISSUE 40:

Best Television Soundtrack The Nominees The Honourable Woman Composed by: Natalie Holt and Martin Phipps UK Publisher: Imagem FTV and Du Vinage Publishing

2 : : 2014

40

TH

MS MAC IS BACK Christine McVie

ACORN - THE MILL 2 - DVD SLEEVE

EDITION

ISSUE 42:

e of BASCA

PLUS:

ZINE OF BASC

2 : : 2014

London Grammar Roxanna Panufnik Ruby Turner Simon Napier-Bell Eddie McGuire Alastair King

The Mill - Series 2

4 : : 2014 Based on powerful true stories, The Mill continues its tale of workers at the time of the industrial revolution – a revolution that would build an empire for the bosses, and a new world of unionised labour and the vote for the workers.

But first, there is much to be done.

Young Esther Price, a girl not afraid to stand up for her rights almost loses her job, but instead finds herself negotiating her freedom. As she prepares to move into a place of her own, life at the Mill faces new challenges.

Migrant labourers have arrived in the form of the Howlett family from down South and the father, John soon rises to the role of new overseer. Paid by the piece his attempts to improve output, and his wages, may lead to disaster. Another newcomer, Peter, is a black apprentice brought over from the Greg Plantation in the West Indies to speak in favour of the abolition of slavery. All around is change and striving, with workers rallying for their rights and the Greg Family struggling to maintain the status quo.

Regardless, the future awaits them kicking and screaming like a newborn baby with all that is both good and bad still to come.

THE MAGA

THE MAGAZINE OF BASCA

THE IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS 2014 A special report

The magazin

Composed by: Samuel Sim UK Publisher: Du Vinage Publishing / Sony/ATV Music Publishing

A 4 : : 2014

starring SOPE DIRISU, MARK FROST, CIARAN GRIFFITHS, KERRIE HAYES, HOLLY LUCAS, LAURA MAIN, BARBARA MARTEN, KATHERINE ROSE MORLEY, MATTHEW MCNULTY, ANDREW LEE-POTTS, SACHA PARKINSON, JUSTIN SALINGER, MARK STREPAN co-creator, writer and associate producer JOHN FAY produced by JOHNATHAN YOUNG directed by SUE TULLY and BILL ANDERSON writers JOHN FAY, DEBBIE OATES and IAN KERSHAW, ALICE NUTTER, STEPHEN FAY and TONY GREEN executive producer EMILY DALTON a DARLOW SMITHSON PRODUCTION for CHANNEL 4 This drama is based on the people and history of Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire England. Filmed on location at Quarry Bank Museum.

A DSP Production for Channel 4. © Darlow Smithson Productions Limited MMXIII

SPECIAL FEATURES

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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – Beyond the Pale

In the early days of criminal investigation, before guilt and innocence were determined by forensic science, there was a detective, “a man of mystery”, with an uncanny ability to read the human character and an unswerving instinct for the truth. In Victorian England, justice depended on The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.

Beyond the Pale

Composed by: Edmund Butt UK Publisher: Bucks Music Group and Imagem FTV

Whicher is hired by his one-time political master, the former Home Secretary, Sir Edward Shore, to investigate violent threats made against his son, who has recently returned from India with his young family. Sir Edward is desperate to avoid a damaging scandal and, even after a murder, refuses to let Whicher involve his former colleagues in the Metropolitan Police. Whicher’s quest for justice, takes him into the most dangerous corners of London’s docks and to the exposure of a terrible crime and brings him into contact with a woman who touches his heart. starring

PaDDY COnsiDinE, nanCY CarrOLL, JOHn HEFFErnan, KatE FaHY, LaUra FranCEs-MOrgan, niCHOLas JOnEs, ELLOra tOrCHia anD tiM PigOtt-sMitH writtEn bY HELEn EDMUnDsOn DirECtED bY DaViD bLair PrODUCED bY DaViD bOULtEr ExECUtiVE PrODUCEr MarK rEDHEaD

tHE sUsPiCiOns OF Mr wHiCHEr bEYOnD tHE PaLE © Hat triCK (wHiCHEr) LiMitED 2014 ViDEO © Hat triCK PrODUCtiOns LtD. 2014

The Ties That Bind

Commissioned by a wealthy west-country landowner, Sir Henry Coverley, private inquiry agent, Jack Whicher reluctantly takes on a divorce case, following Sir Henry’s young wife as she meets her lover for a romantic assignation in London. But one of the key witnesses mysteriously fails to attend the divorce court and an apparently simple case of adultery spirals into something darker, which leads Whicher into the heart of the English countryside and to the uncovering of the most disturbing and destructive of secrets.

ry on comApndrew osition PLU

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Mike Batt Paul Crick Jessica Curry

“Extraordinary authEnticity” - d “a Strong EnSEMblE caSt” - t t

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Warning: This Digital Versatile Disc is protected by copyright. Any unauthorised broadcast, public performance, copying or hiring is strictly prohibited.

Classicainl Mu sic

3 : : 2014

• The Real Mill Part One & Two • Picture Gallery • Subtitles

Colour PAL• Length 283 mins. approx. on two discs • Aspect Ratio 16:9 letterbox

starring

PADDY CONSIDINE, HELEN BRADBURY, NANCY CARROLL, RISTEARD COOPER, JOANNA HORTON, JAMES NORTHCOTE anD LUKE THOMPSON writtEn bY HELEN EDMUNDSON DirECtED bY GEOFFREY SAX PrODUCED bY DAVID BOULTER ExECUtiVE PrODUCEr MARK REDHEAD

THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER THE TIES THAT BIND © HAT TRICK (WHICHER) LIMITED 2014 VIDEO © HAT TRICK PRODUCTIONS LTD. 2014

Inspired by the bestselling book by Kate Summerscale. www.bloomsbury.com

SPECIAL FEATURES • Picture Galleries • Subtitles

Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over.

MCPS

www.acorndvd.com

Colour PAL• Length 178 mins. approx. on two discs • Aspect Ratio 16:9 Letterbox Packaging Design © RLJE International Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Distributed by RLJE International Ltd. Dolby and d symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.

Warning: This Digital Versatile Disc is protected by copyright. Any unauthorised broadcast, public performance, copying or hiring is strictly prohibited.

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Awards Best Television Soundtrack

Best Television Soundtrack recognises outstanding composition for a television programme and in particular how well the music enhances the visual content.

BASCA is a single, powerful voice for all songwriters and composers, across all genres.

We’re an independent, professional, not-for-profit association driven to ensure that our members’ needs are always taken into account when it really matters.

JOIN US

We work for fair copyright law, the best possible royalty returns and as proud owners of the Ivor Novello Awards for wider recognition of the priceless contribution that music makes to our culture and society.

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The magazine of BASCA

ISSUE 40:

Best Television Soundtrack The Nominees The Honourable Woman Composed by: Natalie Holt and Martin Phipps UK Publisher: Imagem FTV and Du Vinage Publishing

2 : : 2014

40

TH

MS MAC IS BACK Christine McVie

ACORN - THE MILL 2 - DVD SLEEVE

EDITION

ISSUE 42:

e of BASCA

PLUS:

ZINE OF BASC

2 : : 2014

London Grammar Roxanna Panufnik Ruby Turner Simon Napier-Bell Eddie McGuire Alastair King

The Mill - Series 2

4 : : 2014 Based on powerful true stories, The Mill continues its tale of workers at the time of the industrial revolution – a revolution that would build an empire for the bosses, and a new world of unionised labour and the vote for the workers.

But first, there is much to be done.

Young Esther Price, a girl not afraid to stand up for her rights almost loses her job, but instead finds herself negotiating her freedom. As she prepares to move into a place of her own, life at the Mill faces new challenges.

Migrant labourers have arrived in the form of the Howlett family from down South and the father, John soon rises to the role of new overseer. Paid by the piece his attempts to improve output, and his wages, may lead to disaster. Another newcomer, Peter, is a black apprentice brought over from the Greg Plantation in the West Indies to speak in favour of the abolition of slavery. All around is change and striving, with workers rallying for their rights and the Greg Family struggling to maintain the status quo.

Regardless, the future awaits them kicking and screaming like a newborn baby with all that is both good and bad still to come.

THE MAGA

THE MAGAZINE OF BASCA

THE IVOR NOVELLO AWARDS 2014 A special report

The magazin

Composed by: Samuel Sim UK Publisher: Du Vinage Publishing / Sony/ATV Music Publishing

A 4 : : 2014

starring SOPE DIRISU, MARK FROST, CIARAN GRIFFITHS, KERRIE HAYES, HOLLY LUCAS, LAURA MAIN, BARBARA MARTEN, KATHERINE ROSE MORLEY, MATTHEW MCNULTY, ANDREW LEE-POTTS, SACHA PARKINSON, JUSTIN SALINGER, MARK STREPAN co-creator, writer and associate producer JOHN FAY produced by JOHNATHAN YOUNG directed by SUE TULLY and BILL ANDERSON writers JOHN FAY, DEBBIE OATES and IAN KERSHAW, ALICE NUTTER, STEPHEN FAY and TONY GREEN executive producer EMILY DALTON a DARLOW SMITHSON PRODUCTION for CHANNEL 4 This drama is based on the people and history of Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire England. Filmed on location at Quarry Bank Museum.

A DSP Production for Channel 4. © Darlow Smithson Productions Limited MMXIII

SPECIAL FEATURES

moderate violence, sex references, moderate bad language

MCPS

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e of BASCA

The magazin

ISSUE 43

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:

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Victoria Hor n John McLeod Sara Mohr-P ietsch

AZINE OF BASCA 1 : : 2015

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3 : : 2014

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OPERATOR

DVD - SLEEVE

THE MILL 2

AV3172

05/08/14

Rob

YELLOW

Mail

iMES

2 disc set

BLACK

1 : : 2015

British Acad emy of Composers Songwriters, & Authors

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher – Beyond the Pale

In the early days of criminal investigation, before guilt and innocence were determined by forensic science, there was a detective, “a man of mystery”, with an uncanny ability to read the human character and an unswerving instinct for the truth. In Victorian England, justice depended on The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.

Beyond the Pale

Composed by: Edmund Butt UK Publisher: Bucks Music Group and Imagem FTV

Whicher is hired by his one-time political master, the former Home Secretary, Sir Edward Shore, to investigate violent threats made against his son, who has recently returned from India with his young family. Sir Edward is desperate to avoid a damaging scandal and, even after a murder, refuses to let Whicher involve his former colleagues in the Metropolitan Police. Whicher’s quest for justice, takes him into the most dangerous corners of London’s docks and to the exposure of a terrible crime and brings him into contact with a woman who touches his heart. starring

PaDDY COnsiDinE, nanCY CarrOLL, JOHn HEFFErnan, KatE FaHY, LaUra FranCEs-MOrgan, niCHOLas JOnEs, ELLOra tOrCHia anD tiM PigOtt-sMitH writtEn bY HELEn EDMUnDsOn DirECtED bY DaViD bLair PrODUCED bY DaViD bOULtEr ExECUtiVE PrODUCEr MarK rEDHEaD

tHE sUsPiCiOns OF Mr wHiCHEr bEYOnD tHE PaLE © Hat triCK (wHiCHEr) LiMitED 2014 ViDEO © Hat triCK PrODUCtiOns LtD. 2014

The Ties That Bind

Commissioned by a wealthy west-country landowner, Sir Henry Coverley, private inquiry agent, Jack Whicher reluctantly takes on a divorce case, following Sir Henry’s young wife as she meets her lover for a romantic assignation in London. But one of the key witnesses mysteriously fails to attend the divorce court and an apparently simple case of adultery spirals into something darker, which leads Whicher into the heart of the English countryside and to the uncovering of the most disturbing and destructive of secrets.

ry on comApndrew osition PLU

SHAW KYM BRAD MULHERN DANIEL ETT NN BE FIONA

aily

hE

AV3172

ACORN - MR WHICHER PARTS 3 & 4 - DVD SLEEVE

My life 20 14 - A SP in muDSsic EC IA L RE PO RT In conver sation with David Arn old Ker

GO LD BA DG E AWAR

THE MAG

ER SCHERR ALK DOMINIK FOR A W TAKES US R STREET RIPPE DOWN

PLUS:

Mike Batt Paul Crick Jessica Curry

“Extraordinary authEnticity” - d “a Strong EnSEMblE caSt” - t t

www.acorndvd.com

Packaging Design © RLJE International Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Distributed by RLJE International Ltd. Dolby and d symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.

Warning: This Digital Versatile Disc is protected by copyright. Any unauthorised broadcast, public performance, copying or hiring is strictly prohibited.

Classicainl Mu sic

3 : : 2014

• The Real Mill Part One & Two • Picture Gallery • Subtitles

Colour PAL• Length 283 mins. approx. on two discs • Aspect Ratio 16:9 letterbox

starring

PADDY CONSIDINE, HELEN BRADBURY, NANCY CARROLL, RISTEARD COOPER, JOANNA HORTON, JAMES NORTHCOTE anD LUKE THOMPSON writtEn bY HELEN EDMUNDSON DirECtED bY GEOFFREY SAX PrODUCED bY DAVID BOULTER ExECUtiVE PrODUCEr MARK REDHEAD

THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER THE TIES THAT BIND © HAT TRICK (WHICHER) LIMITED 2014 VIDEO © HAT TRICK PRODUCTIONS LTD. 2014

Inspired by the bestselling book by Kate Summerscale. www.bloomsbury.com

SPECIAL FEATURES • Picture Galleries • Subtitles

Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over.

MCPS

www.acorndvd.com

Colour PAL• Length 178 mins. approx. on two discs • Aspect Ratio 16:9 Letterbox Packaging Design © RLJE International Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Distributed by RLJE International Ltd. Dolby and d symbol are trademarks of Dolby Laboratories.

Warning: This Digital Versatile Disc is protected by copyright. Any unauthorised broadcast, public performance, copying or hiring is strictly prohibited.

CUTTER

272x183mm CYAN

TERRITORY

UK MAGENTA

AV3183

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TITLE

AV NO.

DATE

OPERATOR

DVD - SLEEVE

MR WHICHER PARTS 3 & 4

AV3183

02/09/14

Graham

YELLOW

2 disc set

BLACK

ers,

writ emy of Song British Acad rs & Authors Compose

12 WAYS

TO GET

D: ALL SIC HEAR HÉLIÈNNE LINDV YOUR MU N BY GETTING LIST’S ATTENTIO

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Last year’s winner Ripper Street Composed by Dominik Scherrer

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Mitchell Giebels

Awards Outstanding Song Collection

To pen a single outstanding song is an achievement in and of itself, but to pen a body of enduring and exceptional songs is something extraordinary.

This Ivor Novello Award acknowledges outstanding talent, and the body of work that this extraordinary talent has produced.

Outstanding Song Collection One of his most celebrated songs famously asked for “one moment in time”, but in fact Albert Hammond has provided dozens of such moments over a career that has produced hits across the last six decades.

And what moments they have been. Since writing his first chart smash – Little Arrows, a Number Two for Leapy Lee in 1968 – Hammond has enjoyed success as a recording artist and a producer while, as a songwriter, the hits have just kept coming.

And it’s the sheer range of his work that sets Hammond apart. He has scored hits on pop, country, R&B and Latin charts. His songs have been recorded by everyone from Elton John to Tina Turner, Julio Iglesias to Johnny Cash, Whitney Houston to The Carpenters. He has co-written with talents as diverse as Diane Warren and Hal David, Mike Hazlewood and John Bettis. And his songs have driven worldwide record sales of over 300 million.

His work will need no introduction to The Ivors audience, but even a casual music fan would be familiar with this most outstanding of song collections. From his own hits such as It Never Rains In Southern California and The Free Electric Band to enduring favourites such as The Air That I Breathe (Number Two for The Hollies in 1974) and When I Need You (Number One for Leo Sayer in 1977), Hammond pretty much owned the 1970s. But while some songwriters dip in and out of fashion, Hammond’s ageless craft has always managed to move with the times and changing tastes.

So he and Warren co-wrote 1987’s rock powerhouse Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now for Starship, nominated for an Oscar. He and Bettis penned the pop-soul belter and 1988 Olympic theme One Moment In Time for Whitney Houston and won an Emmy. And he and David came up with 1984’s To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before for Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson, crossing Latin and Country genre boundaries. In the Nineties, he wrote for Diana Ross; in the Noughties, he worked with Duffy. One of his finest songs, Don’t Turn Around, was recorded by artists as varied as Tina Turner, Aswad and Ace Of Bass.

In recent years, he has reclaimed such gems for himself, re-recording some of his best-known songs for his Legend albums (where he also sang a duet with his son, Albert Hammond Jr of The Strokes) and taking the catalogue back on the road. But really, his is a legacy that will endure through the ages, not so much moments in time as timeless moments.

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Mitchell Giebels

Awards Outstanding Song Collection

To pen a single outstanding song is an achievement in and of itself, but to pen a body of enduring and exceptional songs is something extraordinary.

This Ivor Novello Award acknowledges outstanding talent, and the body of work that this extraordinary talent has produced.

Outstanding Song Collection One of his most celebrated songs famously asked for “one moment in time”, but in fact Albert Hammond has provided dozens of such moments over a career that has produced hits across the last six decades.

And what moments they have been. Since writing his first chart smash – Little Arrows, a Number Two for Leapy Lee in 1968 – Hammond has enjoyed success as a recording artist and a producer while, as a songwriter, the hits have just kept coming.

And it’s the sheer range of his work that sets Hammond apart. He has scored hits on pop, country, R&B and Latin charts. His songs have been recorded by everyone from Elton John to Tina Turner, Julio Iglesias to Johnny Cash, Whitney Houston to The Carpenters. He has co-written with talents as diverse as Diane Warren and Hal David, Mike Hazlewood and John Bettis. And his songs have driven worldwide record sales of over 300 million.

His work will need no introduction to The Ivors audience, but even a casual music fan would be familiar with this most outstanding of song collections. From his own hits such as It Never Rains In Southern California and The Free Electric Band to enduring favourites such as The Air That I Breathe (Number Two for The Hollies in 1974) and When I Need You (Number One for Leo Sayer in 1977), Hammond pretty much owned the 1970s. But while some songwriters dip in and out of fashion, Hammond’s ageless craft has always managed to move with the times and changing tastes.

So he and Warren co-wrote 1987’s rock powerhouse Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now for Starship, nominated for an Oscar. He and Bettis penned the pop-soul belter and 1988 Olympic theme One Moment In Time for Whitney Houston and won an Emmy. And he and David came up with 1984’s To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before for Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson, crossing Latin and Country genre boundaries. In the Nineties, he wrote for Diana Ross; in the Noughties, he worked with Duffy. One of his finest songs, Don’t Turn Around, was recorded by artists as varied as Tina Turner, Aswad and Ace Of Bass.

In recent years, he has reclaimed such gems for himself, re-recording some of his best-known songs for his Legend albums (where he also sang a duet with his son, Albert Hammond Jr of The Strokes) and taking the catalogue back on the road. But really, his is a legacy that will endure through the ages, not so much moments in time as timeless moments.

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Congratulations Albert

From Stuart, Janie, ZoĂŤ and everyone at Hornall Brothers Music.

Hornall Brothers Music Limited 18 Kinnaird Avenue, Bromley, Kent, BR1 4HG.

Congratulations Albert

From Stuart, Janie, ZoĂŤ and everyone at Hornall Brothers Music.

Hornall Brothers Music Limited 18 Kinnaird Avenue, Bromley, Kent, BR1 4HG.

Benjamin Ealovega

Awards The Ivors Classical Music Award

This Ivor Novello Award recognises an outstanding body of work in the classical genre. It is an opportunity for the classical community to acknowledge the excellence and diversity of the recipient’s achievements as a composer.

The Ivors Classical Music Award “There’s no requirement to be normal,” Judith Weir once said. She was talking about why she loves opera, although she could also have been speaking about her own remarkable career.

As a public figure, Weir is a ground-breaker, becoming the first female Master of the Queen’s Music last year. And as a composer, she’s a one-off. It’s been clear that she possesses great talent ever since she starred as a teenage oboist with the National Youth Orchestra, but she also has a rare gift for communication that has seen her reach far beyond the usual classical enclaves with her work.

And what a body of work she has built up. Her compositions range from children’s songs to full-blown operas, via piano concertos and chamber music, but everything she does displays the same lightness of touch and musical clarity. Critics have hailed the elegant simplicity and accessibility of her work, although she’s never afraid to challenge. So, in her operatic work alone, she has written mini-operas such as 1985’s The Black Spider, the full-length likes of 1990’s The Vanishing Bridegroom and 1994’s Blond Eckbert and 2005’s pioneering Armida, an opera composed for Channel 4 television.

She also cares passionately about music education and has held many significant roles within the classical sector, including Artistic Director of the Spitalfields Festival. And the recipient of The Ivors Classical Music Award this year is no stranger to picking up prizes, having scooped the 2001 South Bank Show music award and the 1997 Lincoln Centre’s Stoeger Prize. Nor is she new to royal circles; she was awarded a CBE in 2005 for services to music and the Queen’s medal for music in 2007.

So it’s no surprise that, when she was appointed to her latest royal role last year – shattering a glass ceiling that has existed since the post was created by Charles I – the classical world was delighted. Weir is a confident champion of contemporary music and a great advertisement for its continued relevance. On her appointment, she declared her intention to travel the country investigating music education and to challenge her contemporaries to create music that is accessible to all.

“They said it’s absolutely up to the person who does it to make it their own,” she told The Guardian on her appointment and it seems nailed on that this most individual of classical figures will do precisely that. With Judith Weir at the helm, the Queen’s Music is in the safest of hands.

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Benjamin Ealovega

Awards The Ivors Classical Music Award

This Ivor Novello Award recognises an outstanding body of work in the classical genre. It is an opportunity for the classical community to acknowledge the excellence and diversity of the recipient’s achievements as a composer.

The Ivors Classical Music Award “There’s no requirement to be normal,” Judith Weir once said. She was talking about why she loves opera, although she could also have been speaking about her own remarkable career.

As a public figure, Weir is a ground-breaker, becoming the first female Master of the Queen’s Music last year. And as a composer, she’s a one-off. It’s been clear that she possesses great talent ever since she starred as a teenage oboist with the National Youth Orchestra, but she also has a rare gift for communication that has seen her reach far beyond the usual classical enclaves with her work.

And what a body of work she has built up. Her compositions range from children’s songs to full-blown operas, via piano concertos and chamber music, but everything she does displays the same lightness of touch and musical clarity. Critics have hailed the elegant simplicity and accessibility of her work, although she’s never afraid to challenge. So, in her operatic work alone, she has written mini-operas such as 1985’s The Black Spider, the full-length likes of 1990’s The Vanishing Bridegroom and 1994’s Blond Eckbert and 2005’s pioneering Armida, an opera composed for Channel 4 television.

She also cares passionately about music education and has held many significant roles within the classical sector, including Artistic Director of the Spitalfields Festival. And the recipient of The Ivors Classical Music Award this year is no stranger to picking up prizes, having scooped the 2001 South Bank Show music award and the 1997 Lincoln Centre’s Stoeger Prize. Nor is she new to royal circles; she was awarded a CBE in 2005 for services to music and the Queen’s medal for music in 2007.

So it’s no surprise that, when she was appointed to her latest royal role last year – shattering a glass ceiling that has existed since the post was created by Charles I – the classical world was delighted. Weir is a confident champion of contemporary music and a great advertisement for its continued relevance. On her appointment, she declared her intention to travel the country investigating music education and to challenge her contemporaries to create music that is accessible to all.

“They said it’s absolutely up to the person who does it to make it their own,” she told The Guardian on her appointment and it seems nailed on that this most individual of classical figures will do precisely that. With Judith Weir at the helm, the Queen’s Music is in the safest of hands.

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Awards Album Award

This award acknowledges the album as a body of work. The category credits consistently exceptional songwriting across an entire album.

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Awards Best Song Musically and Lyrically

Album Award

First presented at The Ivors in 1957 this category recognises excellence in the craft of songwriting with particular reference to melody, lyrics, harmony and structure.

Best Song Musically and Lyrically

The Nominees

The Nominees

Present Tense

Above The Clouds Of Pompeii

Written by: Thomas Fleming, Ben Little, Christopher Talbot and Hayden Thorpe Performed by: Wild Beasts UK Publisher: Domino Publishing Company

Written by: Andrew Davie Performed by: Bear’s Den UK Publisher: Communion Publishing

Royal Blood

I Forget Where We Were

Written by: Michael Kerr and Ben Thatcher Performed by: Royal Blood UK Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd

Written and Performed by: Ben Howard UK Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd

So Long, See You Tomorrow

Take Me To Church

Written by: Jack Steadman Performed by: Bombay Bicycle Club UK Publisher: Imagem Music

Written by: Andrew Hozier-Byrne Performed by: Hozier UK Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing – The Evolving Music Company

Last year’s winner

Last year’s winner

Push the Sky Away Written by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

Strong Written by Dominic Major, Hannah Reid and Daniel Rothman

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Awards Album Award

This award acknowledges the album as a body of work. The category credits consistently exceptional songwriting across an entire album.

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Awards Best Song Musically and Lyrically

Album Award

First presented at The Ivors in 1957 this category recognises excellence in the craft of songwriting with particular reference to melody, lyrics, harmony and structure.

Best Song Musically and Lyrically

The Nominees

The Nominees

Present Tense

Above The Clouds Of Pompeii

Written by: Thomas Fleming, Ben Little, Christopher Talbot and Hayden Thorpe Performed by: Wild Beasts UK Publisher: Domino Publishing Company

Written by: Andrew Davie Performed by: Bear’s Den UK Publisher: Communion Publishing

Royal Blood

I Forget Where We Were

Written by: Michael Kerr and Ben Thatcher Performed by: Royal Blood UK Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd

Written and Performed by: Ben Howard UK Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd

So Long, See You Tomorrow

Take Me To Church

Written by: Jack Steadman Performed by: Bombay Bicycle Club UK Publisher: Imagem Music

Written by: Andrew Hozier-Byrne Performed by: Hozier UK Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing – The Evolving Music Company

Last year’s winner

Last year’s winner

Push the Sky Away Written by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

Strong Written by Dominic Major, Hannah Reid and Daniel Rothman

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BASCA has acknowledged the outstanding services of a British songwriter or composer since the first Ivor Novello Awards in 1956.

Today, the award is title sponsored by our ceremony sponsor PRS for Music, and continues to celebrate exceptional songwriters and composers who have shaped British cultural life and excelled in their field.

Awards PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution to British Music

PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution To British Music The word “icon” may have become over-used in popular culture but, in the case of George Alan O’Dowd, no other epithet will do.

Ever since he exploded into the British cultural consciousness in 1982 as Do You Really Want To Hurt Me became an enormous hit for his band Culture Club – his androgynous image prompting endless playground discussion and tabloid debate, his irresistible songwriting prompting millions of record sales – Boy George has been a maverick presence at large in the mainstream. He’s endured his share of tough times personally, but he’s always bounced back and his music has always been at the heart of each recovery.

The Culture Club years were studded with hit after international hit as great songs such as Church Of The Poison Mind, Karma Chameleon, Victims and Move Away flowed from the studio. Over the course of four successful albums, George became a huge star at home and abroad, guaranteed to enliven any chat show or chart show. And when the band broke up in 1986 he embarked on a solo career that has always produced sparkling music, whether recording under his own name (as with hits such as The Crying Game, Sold, No Clause 28 and To Be Reborn), his dance music persona Jesus Loves You or other electronic pseudonyms.

Interest in Culture Club has remained strong around the world, with the original line-up back together for a new album and live dates this year.

But George is now a member of more than one Club. Over the years, he’s also become a renowned DJ, starred in musicals, run a clothing line, presented radio shows and even once appeared as himself in an episode of The A-Team – the 1980s TV action show famous for the catchphrase, “I love it when a plan comes together.” And, while George’s career may have been too unconventional for there to have been too much of a plan behind it, there’s no doubting his status as a brilliant songwriter and a national treasure. That’s why, today, The Ivors will come together to hail his Outstanding Contribution To British Music and his iconic presence. All hail King George.

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BASCA has acknowledged the outstanding services of a British songwriter or composer since the first Ivor Novello Awards in 1956.

Today, the award is title sponsored by our ceremony sponsor PRS for Music, and continues to celebrate exceptional songwriters and composers who have shaped British cultural life and excelled in their field.

Awards PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution to British Music

PRS for Music Outstanding Contribution To British Music The word “icon” may have become over-used in popular culture but, in the case of George Alan O’Dowd, no other epithet will do.

Ever since he exploded into the British cultural consciousness in 1982 as Do You Really Want To Hurt Me became an enormous hit for his band Culture Club – his androgynous image prompting endless playground discussion and tabloid debate, his irresistible songwriting prompting millions of record sales – Boy George has been a maverick presence at large in the mainstream. He’s endured his share of tough times personally, but he’s always bounced back and his music has always been at the heart of each recovery.

The Culture Club years were studded with hit after international hit as great songs such as Church Of The Poison Mind, Karma Chameleon, Victims and Move Away flowed from the studio. Over the course of four successful albums, George became a huge star at home and abroad, guaranteed to enliven any chat show or chart show. And when the band broke up in 1986 he embarked on a solo career that has always produced sparkling music, whether recording under his own name (as with hits such as The Crying Game, Sold, No Clause 28 and To Be Reborn), his dance music persona Jesus Loves You or other electronic pseudonyms.

Interest in Culture Club has remained strong around the world, with the original line-up back together for a new album and live dates this year.

But George is now a member of more than one Club. Over the years, he’s also become a renowned DJ, starred in musicals, run a clothing line, presented radio shows and even once appeared as himself in an episode of The A-Team – the 1980s TV action show famous for the catchphrase, “I love it when a plan comes together.” And, while George’s career may have been too unconventional for there to have been too much of a plan behind it, there’s no doubting his status as a brilliant songwriter and a national treasure. That’s why, today, The Ivors will come together to hail his Outstanding Contribution To British Music and his iconic presence. All hail King George.

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Best of British Congratulations to all our members for their overseas success. We’re proud to help ensure your hard work and creativity is recognised all over the world.

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Best of British Congratulations to all our members for their overseas success. We’re proud to help ensure your hard work and creativity is recognised all over the world.

Proud sponsor of The Ivors prsformusic.com m-magazine.co.uk

Awards Best Original Film Score

This award recognises outstanding composition for a feature film and how well the score enhances the visual content.

Best Original Film Score The Nominees ‘71 Composed by: David Holmes UK Publisher: Universal Music Publishing

Mr. Turner Composed by: Gary Yershon UK Publisher: Universal Music Publishing

The Boxtrolls Composed by: Dario Marianelli UK Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd

Last year’s winner The Epic of Everest Composed by Simon Fisher Turner

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Awards Best Original Film Score

This award recognises outstanding composition for a feature film and how well the score enhances the visual content.

Best Original Film Score The Nominees ‘71 Composed by: David Holmes UK Publisher: Universal Music Publishing

Mr. Turner Composed by: Gary Yershon UK Publisher: Universal Music Publishing

The Boxtrolls Composed by: Dario Marianelli UK Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Ltd

Last year’s winner The Epic of Everest Composed by Simon Fisher Turner

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Awards Songwriter of the Year

The Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year acknowledges a songwriter that has written an outstanding body of work released during the award year. It has been presented annually since 1969.

Songwriter of the Year Later this summer, this year’s recipient of the prestigious Songwriter of the Year will headline three nights at Wembley Stadium. Ed Sheeran has already announced his intention to play the 80,000-capacity shows the way he usually does; just him and his guitar. But then he knows he doesn’t need gimmicks to fill even that cavernous stadium. What will fill Wembley three times over is the thing that has filled Sheeran’s gigs since he first started playing as a teenager back in 2005: his songs.

And throughout 2014, Sheeran’s second album X proved the enduring power of a great song collection. From the moment irresistible lead single Sing (co-written with Pharrell Williams) shot to Number One in April, giving him his first UK chart-topper, X has proved to be a blockbuster of epic proportions.

In an era of generally shrinking album sales, X’s statistics are remarkable. Despite only being released in late June, it sold 1.7 million UK copies in 2014, the first album to sell more than a million copies in a calendar year since Emeli Sandé’s Our Version Of Events in 2012, and the biggest total for an artist album since Adele’s 21 in 2011. It spent 12 weeks at Number One and never left the Top Six during 2014.

The album also became an international phenomenon. Sheeran became Spotify’s most streamed global artist of the year and X its most-streamed album, while the album also hit Number One in the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

None of which, of course, would mean too much if the songs weren’t up to scratch. But X proves that Sheeran brings much more to the party than his own self-deprecating reference to “Singing about love/And where it goes wrong” (on album-opener One) suggests. Because X is an album that contains both the salacious groove of Don’t and the sensitive Alzheimer’s Disease exposition of Afire Love. An album that’s equally at home with the rap flow of Take It Back as with the classic balladry of Thinking Out Loud (the second UK Number One single from the album). And an album by an artist who, somehow, also found time to co-write excellent songs for the likes of One Direction, Jessie Ware and Rixton.

Ben Watts

It’s that versatility that means X is an album that has already made millions of people dance, cry and think. And it’s that consistency that means that Sheeran is a songwriter likely to fill stadiums for decades to come.

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Awards Songwriter of the Year

The Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year acknowledges a songwriter that has written an outstanding body of work released during the award year. It has been presented annually since 1969.

Songwriter of the Year Later this summer, this year’s recipient of the prestigious Songwriter of the Year will headline three nights at Wembley Stadium. Ed Sheeran has already announced his intention to play the 80,000-capacity shows the way he usually does; just him and his guitar. But then he knows he doesn’t need gimmicks to fill even that cavernous stadium. What will fill Wembley three times over is the thing that has filled Sheeran’s gigs since he first started playing as a teenager back in 2005: his songs.

And throughout 2014, Sheeran’s second album X proved the enduring power of a great song collection. From the moment irresistible lead single Sing (co-written with Pharrell Williams) shot to Number One in April, giving him his first UK chart-topper, X has proved to be a blockbuster of epic proportions.

In an era of generally shrinking album sales, X’s statistics are remarkable. Despite only being released in late June, it sold 1.7 million UK copies in 2014, the first album to sell more than a million copies in a calendar year since Emeli Sandé’s Our Version Of Events in 2012, and the biggest total for an artist album since Adele’s 21 in 2011. It spent 12 weeks at Number One and never left the Top Six during 2014.

The album also became an international phenomenon. Sheeran became Spotify’s most streamed global artist of the year and X its most-streamed album, while the album also hit Number One in the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

None of which, of course, would mean too much if the songs weren’t up to scratch. But X proves that Sheeran brings much more to the party than his own self-deprecating reference to “Singing about love/And where it goes wrong” (on album-opener One) suggests. Because X is an album that contains both the salacious groove of Don’t and the sensitive Alzheimer’s Disease exposition of Afire Love. An album that’s equally at home with the rap flow of Take It Back as with the classic balladry of Thinking Out Loud (the second UK Number One single from the album). And an album by an artist who, somehow, also found time to co-write excellent songs for the likes of One Direction, Jessie Ware and Rixton.

Ben Watts

It’s that versatility that means X is an album that has already made millions of people dance, cry and think. And it’s that consistency that means that Sheeran is a songwriter likely to fill stadiums for decades to come.

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Awards The Ivors Inspiration Award

This Ivor Novello Award acknowledges not just the quality of the songwriters’ catalogue, but also their achievements in inspiring others.

It represents the appreciation of all those who have been inspired to emulate their talent and originality.

The Ivors Inspiration Award As a band, the Manic Street Preachers have always worn their own inspirations on their sleeve.

Even, occasionally, on their album sleeves. So it’s perhaps not surprising that the band that voraciously hoovered up the greatest music, art and literature available to them and channelled it into their own glorious music have, over the course of an almost 30-year career, become a huge source of inspiration themselves.

Because over those years the Manics – singer/guitarist James Dean Bradfield, bassist Nicky Wire and drummer Sean Moore, not forgetting guitarist Richey Edwards, who went missing 20 years ago – have stood for everything that’s vital about rock music. Fiercely intelligent lyrically and always progressive musically, they have crammed more into their career than 100 other bands put together.

And, indeed, they have essentially managed to be several different bands during that career. Who else could have pulled off both the provocative posturing of 1992 debut Generation Terrorists and the statesmanlike sensitivity of 1996’s megahit Everything Must Go? The harrowing despair and dissent of 1994’s The Holy Bible and the elegant reflections of 2013’s Rewind The Film? The glossy arena rock of 1993’s Gold Against The Soul and the electronic Euro-futurism of last year’s Futurology?

But, while the Manics have never been afraid to be different, their core values have always remained the same. So the fans have followed them through every stage of their development, while each era of this most cherishable of bands has made its influence felt.

So you can spot their musical influence in bands as successful as the Stereophonics and Muse, and the significance of their breakthrough in the rise and rise of the Welsh music scene. But the real power of the Manics has been to inspire bands to do things their own way. Their lyrics – usually written by Wire and, in the early days, Edwards – have made their mark on any band with something to say, whether political (A Design For Life, If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next, Revol) or personal (From Despair To Where, Faster, Your Love Alone Is Not Enough).

And any band with a strong visual aesthetic owes a debt to the Manics’ insistence that artwork and image are hugely important components of any band that truly matters.

Alex Lake

And it’s that attention to detail that’s the key to the Manic Street Preachers’ enduring success.

They’ve never stood still, never stopped trying to make sense of the world, never stopped being inspired. And that’s why they’ll never stop being inspirational either.

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Awards The Ivors Inspiration Award

This Ivor Novello Award acknowledges not just the quality of the songwriters’ catalogue, but also their achievements in inspiring others.

It represents the appreciation of all those who have been inspired to emulate their talent and originality.

The Ivors Inspiration Award As a band, the Manic Street Preachers have always worn their own inspirations on their sleeve.

Even, occasionally, on their album sleeves. So it’s perhaps not surprising that the band that voraciously hoovered up the greatest music, art and literature available to them and channelled it into their own glorious music have, over the course of an almost 30-year career, become a huge source of inspiration themselves.

Because over those years the Manics – singer/guitarist James Dean Bradfield, bassist Nicky Wire and drummer Sean Moore, not forgetting guitarist Richey Edwards, who went missing 20 years ago – have stood for everything that’s vital about rock music. Fiercely intelligent lyrically and always progressive musically, they have crammed more into their career than 100 other bands put together.

And, indeed, they have essentially managed to be several different bands during that career. Who else could have pulled off both the provocative posturing of 1992 debut Generation Terrorists and the statesmanlike sensitivity of 1996’s megahit Everything Must Go? The harrowing despair and dissent of 1994’s The Holy Bible and the elegant reflections of 2013’s Rewind The Film? The glossy arena rock of 1993’s Gold Against The Soul and the electronic Euro-futurism of last year’s Futurology?

But, while the Manics have never been afraid to be different, their core values have always remained the same. So the fans have followed them through every stage of their development, while each era of this most cherishable of bands has made its influence felt.

So you can spot their musical influence in bands as successful as the Stereophonics and Muse, and the significance of their breakthrough in the rise and rise of the Welsh music scene. But the real power of the Manics has been to inspire bands to do things their own way. Their lyrics – usually written by Wire and, in the early days, Edwards – have made their mark on any band with something to say, whether political (A Design For Life, If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next, Revol) or personal (From Despair To Where, Faster, Your Love Alone Is Not Enough).

And any band with a strong visual aesthetic owes a debt to the Manics’ insistence that artwork and image are hugely important components of any band that truly matters.

Alex Lake

And it’s that attention to detail that’s the key to the Manic Street Preachers’ enduring success.

They’ve never stood still, never stopped trying to make sense of the world, never stopped being inspired. And that’s why they’ll never stop being inspirational either.

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SESAC Congratulates

• JAMES NAPIER • TOURIST (William Phillips) • alt-J

Awards Best Contemporary Song

This award recognises outstanding originality in songwriting; songs that capture the moment and/or explore the boundaries of contemporary music.

Best Contemporary Song The Nominees

(PRS)

Every Other Freckle Written by: Thomas Green, Joe Newman and Gus Unger-Hamilton Performed by: alt-J UK Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing

(PRS)

(PRS)

Rather Be JAMES NAPIER

TOURIST

OUR 2015 IVOR NOMINEES CHEERS TO ALL OF THE IVOR NOVELLO AWARD NOMINEES!

alt-J

Written by: James Napier and Jack Patterson Performed by: Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne UK Publisher: Universal Music Publishing – Salli Isaak Songs and Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Two Weeks Written by: Tahliah Debrett Barnett and Emile Haynie Performed by: FKA Twigs UK Publisher: BMG Chrysalis and Universal Music Publishing

Experience the SESAC difference! The best US representation and comprehensive live performance payments – anytime, anywhere in the USA. Beating the competition with 25% faster payments, and proudly introducing monthly royalty payments for radio airplay.

Last year’s winner Retrograde Written by James Blake

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SESAC Congratulates

• JAMES NAPIER • TOURIST (William Phillips) • alt-J

Awards Best Contemporary Song

This award recognises outstanding originality in songwriting; songs that capture the moment and/or explore the boundaries of contemporary music.

Best Contemporary Song The Nominees

(PRS)

Every Other Freckle Written by: Thomas Green, Joe Newman and Gus Unger-Hamilton Performed by: alt-J UK Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing

(PRS)

(PRS)

Rather Be JAMES NAPIER

TOURIST

OUR 2015 IVOR NOMINEES CHEERS TO ALL OF THE IVOR NOVELLO AWARD NOMINEES!

alt-J

Written by: James Napier and Jack Patterson Performed by: Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne UK Publisher: Universal Music Publishing – Salli Isaak Songs and Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Two Weeks Written by: Tahliah Debrett Barnett and Emile Haynie Performed by: FKA Twigs UK Publisher: BMG Chrysalis and Universal Music Publishing

Experience the SESAC difference! The best US representation and comprehensive live performance payments – anytime, anywhere in the USA. Beating the competition with 25% faster payments, and proudly introducing monthly royalty payments for radio airplay.

Last year’s winner Retrograde Written by James Blake

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Making history!

Congratulations on winning the ‘The Ivors Special Anniversary Award’!

Congratulations from your fellow trustees Harvey, Michael, John and Chris

Making history!

Congratulations on winning the ‘The Ivors Special Anniversary Award’!

Congratulations from your fellow trustees Harvey, Michael, John and Chris

Awards The Ivors Special Anniversary Award

To mark the 60th anniversary of the Ivor Novello Awards BASCA has created a special award; an Ivor that not only acknowledges songwriting – it acknowledges the achievements of a British and an Irish songwriter, who through their songwriting have changed the lives of those in need.

The Ivors Special Anniversary Award When people talk about a pop song saving their life, they usually mean it figuratively. But Do They Know It’s Christmas?, written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, has saved literally tens of thousands of lives since its first incarnation 30 years ago – the perfect reason to honour its composers with The Ivors Special Anniversary Award.

The original Band Aid recording was put together after Geldof, then best known as singer of The Boomtown Rats, saw news of the Ethiopian famine on the BBC. He was determined to do something about it, but wasn’t sure what – until he spoke to Ultravox singer Ure, and they decided to try and write a song.

So what would become, at the time, the biggest selling single in history was put together in just a few days, with the pair attempting to cement their separate ideas into one cohesive whole. Ure has attributed the song’s unusual structure – the “Feed the world!” hook was the last thing to be added, and only appears at the end of the song – to this process but, however unconventional the song, it has captured the imagination of successive generations of musicians and the public.

Viewed purely as a pop song, the fact that it has attracted the vocal talents of Bono, Chris Martin, Sting, Paul Weller, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran and One Direction and been a hit in four separate incarnations is remarkable enough. But it’s the huge amount of money raised for humanitarian relief since it first chimed out across Sarm West Studios in London in late 1984 that marks Do They Know It’s Christmas? down as one of the most incredible compositions in history.

Its original target was to raise £250,000. Yet over the years, the Band Aid Trust has in fact raised and spent around $230 million on both immediate famine relief and longer-term projects, while the latest version, last year’s Band Aid 30 – with lyrics rewritten for the occasion – raised money to fight the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Lucy Sewill

And although Geldof and Ure’s songwriting catalogues contain many other classics, not even I Don’t Like Mondays or Vienna can rival the impact of the festive tune they hammered out together in double quick time 30 years ago. Because, in both the musical and humanitarian sense, Do They Know It’s Christmas? is the gift that keeps on giving.

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Awards The Ivors Special Anniversary Award

To mark the 60th anniversary of the Ivor Novello Awards BASCA has created a special award; an Ivor that not only acknowledges songwriting – it acknowledges the achievements of a British and an Irish songwriter, who through their songwriting have changed the lives of those in need.

The Ivors Special Anniversary Award When people talk about a pop song saving their life, they usually mean it figuratively. But Do They Know It’s Christmas?, written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, has saved literally tens of thousands of lives since its first incarnation 30 years ago – the perfect reason to honour its composers with The Ivors Special Anniversary Award.

The original Band Aid recording was put together after Geldof, then best known as singer of The Boomtown Rats, saw news of the Ethiopian famine on the BBC. He was determined to do something about it, but wasn’t sure what – until he spoke to Ultravox singer Ure, and they decided to try and write a song.

So what would become, at the time, the biggest selling single in history was put together in just a few days, with the pair attempting to cement their separate ideas into one cohesive whole. Ure has attributed the song’s unusual structure – the “Feed the world!” hook was the last thing to be added, and only appears at the end of the song – to this process but, however unconventional the song, it has captured the imagination of successive generations of musicians and the public.

Viewed purely as a pop song, the fact that it has attracted the vocal talents of Bono, Chris Martin, Sting, Paul Weller, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran and One Direction and been a hit in four separate incarnations is remarkable enough. But it’s the huge amount of money raised for humanitarian relief since it first chimed out across Sarm West Studios in London in late 1984 that marks Do They Know It’s Christmas? down as one of the most incredible compositions in history.

Its original target was to raise £250,000. Yet over the years, the Band Aid Trust has in fact raised and spent around $230 million on both immediate famine relief and longer-term projects, while the latest version, last year’s Band Aid 30 – with lyrics rewritten for the occasion – raised money to fight the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Lucy Sewill

And although Geldof and Ure’s songwriting catalogues contain many other classics, not even I Don’t Like Mondays or Vienna can rival the impact of the festive tune they hammered out together in double quick time 30 years ago. Because, in both the musical and humanitarian sense, Do They Know It’s Christmas? is the gift that keeps on giving.

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A GREAT SONG A GREAT CAUSE

Our heartfelt congratulations to Bob & Midge

“It’s how they’ve made people feel for years” That’s exceptional

Bob and Midge, heartfelt congratulations on your award - and on everything your talent and passion has helped Band Aid to achieve over the last 30 years.

At BDO we’re proud of the relationship Joe Cannon and the team have had with The Band Aid Charitable Trust since 1985.

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A GREAT SONG A GREAT CAUSE

Our heartfelt congratulations to Bob & Midge

“It’s how they’ve made people feel for years” That’s exceptional

Bob and Midge, heartfelt congratulations on your award - and on everything your talent and passion has helped Band Aid to achieve over the last 30 years.

At BDO we’re proud of the relationship Joe Cannon and the team have had with The Band Aid Charitable Trust since 1985.

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Congratulations on behalf of Onward Music Ltd & Westminster Music Ltd

Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award

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Congratulations on behalf of Onward Music Ltd & Westminster Music Ltd

Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award

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Awards Lifetime Achievement

This Ivor Novello Award acknowledges a lifetime of creative output and the indelible mark that output has left on successive generations of songwriters, composers and music fans.

Lifetime Achievement Very few bands can genuinely claim to have changed the course of music history. Yet the recipients of the 2015 Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement – only the 15th to have been awarded during the awards’ 60-year history – are definitely one such band.

Because, without Black Sabbath, there would be no Heavy Metal. Before their debut, selftitled 1970 album, other bands had rocked, but none of them had rocked as hard as songs such as N.I.B and the title track. The core elements of the metal genre were all there on that debut: doomy, hard-hitting riffs; dark, horror-fuelled lyrics and a sense of wild abandon a million miles away from the mainstream. Together, it was like nothing anyone had ever heard before.

Over 40 years later, the influence of that album and its successors still looms large over the worlds of rock and metal. Bands as successful and varied as Metallica, Iron Maiden, Nirvana and Rage Against The Machine have acknowledged their influence, and the enthusiasm for 2013’s Sabbath comeback album, 13, and its accompanying world tour, showed that their music continues to reach new generation after new generation of rock fans.

Back in the beginning, however, the original line-up of Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass) and Bill Ward (drums) were a band in a hurry. Compared to modern release cycles, it seems mind-boggling that the follow-up to Black Sabbath came out later in the same year as that ground-breaking debut. Furthermore, Paranoid contained such timeless classics such as War Pigs, Iron Man and the title track, songs that still rate as amongst the most important and popular metal anthems of all time.

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Thereafter, the classic albums continued to come thick and fast: Master Of Reality in 1971, Vol.4 in 1972, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in 1973, each one built on Iommi, Butler and Ward’s earth-shaking musicianship and topped off by Osbourne’s unhinged vocals. By the time the frontman left in 1979, the band had produced eight hit albums and sold tens of millions of records but, more importantly, had completely restructured the global rock landscape.

Sabbath’s legacy has endured over the years since, sometimes with the original band members together, sometimes with them apart. But what the success of the current reunion proves – even without Ward being part of it – is just how important those pioneering early years were.

Even 45 years on, there’s still nothing on earth quite like Black Sabbath.

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Awards Lifetime Achievement

This Ivor Novello Award acknowledges a lifetime of creative output and the indelible mark that output has left on successive generations of songwriters, composers and music fans.

Lifetime Achievement Very few bands can genuinely claim to have changed the course of music history. Yet the recipients of the 2015 Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement – only the 15th to have been awarded during the awards’ 60-year history – are definitely one such band.

Because, without Black Sabbath, there would be no Heavy Metal. Before their debut, selftitled 1970 album, other bands had rocked, but none of them had rocked as hard as songs such as N.I.B and the title track. The core elements of the metal genre were all there on that debut: doomy, hard-hitting riffs; dark, horror-fuelled lyrics and a sense of wild abandon a million miles away from the mainstream. Together, it was like nothing anyone had ever heard before.

Over 40 years later, the influence of that album and its successors still looms large over the worlds of rock and metal. Bands as successful and varied as Metallica, Iron Maiden, Nirvana and Rage Against The Machine have acknowledged their influence, and the enthusiasm for 2013’s Sabbath comeback album, 13, and its accompanying world tour, showed that their music continues to reach new generation after new generation of rock fans.

Back in the beginning, however, the original line-up of Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass) and Bill Ward (drums) were a band in a hurry. Compared to modern release cycles, it seems mind-boggling that the follow-up to Black Sabbath came out later in the same year as that ground-breaking debut. Furthermore, Paranoid contained such timeless classics such as War Pigs, Iron Man and the title track, songs that still rate as amongst the most important and popular metal anthems of all time.

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Thereafter, the classic albums continued to come thick and fast: Master Of Reality in 1971, Vol.4 in 1972, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath in 1973, each one built on Iommi, Butler and Ward’s earth-shaking musicianship and topped off by Osbourne’s unhinged vocals. By the time the frontman left in 1979, the band had produced eight hit albums and sold tens of millions of records but, more importantly, had completely restructured the global rock landscape.

Sabbath’s legacy has endured over the years since, sometimes with the original band members together, sometimes with them apart. But what the success of the current reunion proves – even without Ward being part of it – is just how important those pioneering early years were.

Even 45 years on, there’s still nothing on earth quite like Black Sabbath.

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ASCAP CONGRATULATES OUR PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN

PAUL WILLIAMS

VERY PROUD TO REPRESENT YOU

YOUR ICONIC SONGWRITING CAREER IS TRULY INSPIRATIONAL.

CONGRATUL ATIONS FROM ROD MACSWEEN AND ALL AT ITB

WE ALSO SALUTE ALL OF THIS YEAR’S WINNERS AND NOMINEES THAT WE PROUDLY REPRESENT IN THE U.S.

ASCAP CONGRATULATES OUR PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN

PAUL WILLIAMS

VERY PROUD TO REPRESENT YOU

YOUR ICONIC SONGWRITING CAREER IS TRULY INSPIRATIONAL.

CONGRATUL ATIONS FROM ROD MACSWEEN AND ALL AT ITB

WE ALSO SALUTE ALL OF THIS YEAR’S WINNERS AND NOMINEES THAT WE PROUDLY REPRESENT IN THE U.S.

Awards PRS for Music Special International Award

This is the only Ivor Novello Award independently presented to an international songwriter or composer.

It represents the British songwriting and composing community’s recognition of the recipient’s immense talent and the enduring influence of their catalogue. It is title sponsored by PRS for Music.

PRS for Music Special International Award All the talents celebrated at The Ivors are unique, but there is only one recipient this year – or, in all probability, any year – who has had his songs recorded by David Bowie, Daft Punk and Kermit the Frog.

That man, of course, is Paul Williams, a songwriter who would make Mr Versatility look like a one trick pony. But his remarkable songwriting career, spanning more than five decades, several genres and millions of record sales, is not even the half of his story. Williams was a multi-hyphenate multi-tasking talent long before such diversification became standard for entertainers. TV theme composer, film scorer, champion of songwriters everywhere, Little Enos Burdette in Smokey And The Bandit (he also has an accomplished TV and movie acting career) – these are all roles he has played, contributing to a CV that most people would assume had been highly embellished if it wasn’t all a matter of public record.

And his records have certainly always connected with the public. He wrote Evergreen, the love theme from A Star Is Born, for which he won a Grammy and an Oscar. He wrote breezy listening hits We’ve Only Just Begun and Rainy Days And Mondays for The Carpenters. Bowie recorded his song Fill Your Heart for his Hunky Dory album. He wrote Rainbow Connection, a hippyish anthem so intrinsic to the enduring appeal of The Muppets that it appeared in both their very first film, 1979’s The Muppet Movie, and the franchise’s modern reboot, 2011’s The Muppets. And when Daft Punk needed to humanise their robot funk on their 2013 monster hit album Random Access Memories, there was only one man they needed to interface with.

Williams ended up co-writing Beyond and Touch, singing on the latter, and helping them pick up their Album Of The Year Grammy.

In recent years, he has also served the wider songwriting community as President and Chairman of ASCAP, helping composers get the money they deserve for their efforts. But, whether singing, writing, acting or defending the principle of copyright, he brings a passion and generosity of spirit to his work that means he can fit in almost anywhere. And, as that CV clearly indicates, he usually does. Some of his compositions have already lasted going on 50 years but you can bet that, when someone – be they human, robot or frog – needs a great song, he’ll continue to be the guy to call.

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Awards PRS for Music Special International Award

This is the only Ivor Novello Award independently presented to an international songwriter or composer.

It represents the British songwriting and composing community’s recognition of the recipient’s immense talent and the enduring influence of their catalogue. It is title sponsored by PRS for Music.

PRS for Music Special International Award All the talents celebrated at The Ivors are unique, but there is only one recipient this year – or, in all probability, any year – who has had his songs recorded by David Bowie, Daft Punk and Kermit the Frog.

That man, of course, is Paul Williams, a songwriter who would make Mr Versatility look like a one trick pony. But his remarkable songwriting career, spanning more than five decades, several genres and millions of record sales, is not even the half of his story. Williams was a multi-hyphenate multi-tasking talent long before such diversification became standard for entertainers. TV theme composer, film scorer, champion of songwriters everywhere, Little Enos Burdette in Smokey And The Bandit (he also has an accomplished TV and movie acting career) – these are all roles he has played, contributing to a CV that most people would assume had been highly embellished if it wasn’t all a matter of public record.

And his records have certainly always connected with the public. He wrote Evergreen, the love theme from A Star Is Born, for which he won a Grammy and an Oscar. He wrote breezy listening hits We’ve Only Just Begun and Rainy Days And Mondays for The Carpenters. Bowie recorded his song Fill Your Heart for his Hunky Dory album. He wrote Rainbow Connection, a hippyish anthem so intrinsic to the enduring appeal of The Muppets that it appeared in both their very first film, 1979’s The Muppet Movie, and the franchise’s modern reboot, 2011’s The Muppets. And when Daft Punk needed to humanise their robot funk on their 2013 monster hit album Random Access Memories, there was only one man they needed to interface with.

Williams ended up co-writing Beyond and Touch, singing on the latter, and helping them pick up their Album Of The Year Grammy.

In recent years, he has also served the wider songwriting community as President and Chairman of ASCAP, helping composers get the money they deserve for their efforts. But, whether singing, writing, acting or defending the principle of copyright, he brings a passion and generosity of spirit to his work that means he can fit in almost anywhere. And, as that CV clearly indicates, he usually does. Some of his compositions have already lasted going on 50 years but you can bet that, when someone – be they human, robot or frog – needs a great song, he’ll continue to be the guy to call.

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Congratulations To Paul Williams

PRS for Music Special International Award

& To All Our Nominees Album Award

Royal Blood Royal Blood Best Song Musically & Lyrically

Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were Best Original Film Score

Dario Marianelli The Boxtrolls

Congratulations To Paul Williams

PRS for Music Special International Award

& To All Our Nominees Album Award

Royal Blood Royal Blood Best Song Musically & Lyrically

Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were Best Original Film Score

Dario Marianelli The Boxtrolls

Awards BASCA Fellowship

The Fellowship is the highest honour BASCA bestows.

It is peer recognition of the enormous contribution a particular songwriter or composer has made to the British musical landscape.

BASCA Fellowship At the launch of her latest solo album in London last year, Annie Lennox was very clear about one thing: she is not a celebrity.

“My name sometimes gets put in the celebrity category and it freaks me out,” she said as she launched her latest collection of cover versions, Nostalgia. “I’ve never seen myself that way and I find it diminishing. What I am is a musician and a communicator.”

Lennox, of course, is famous; one of the most recognisable performers of the last 40 years, in fact. But if her point was that her renown has been built upon genuine achievement as a superb singer and songwriter, then it was a well-made one. There has been little of the modern day celebrity stuff and nonsense about her career in The Tourists, Eurythmics and as a solo star – no reality TV appearances, fragrance launches or glossy at-home magazine spreads.

But there has been an awful lot of convention-defying and mould-breaking – and an avalanche of great music.

After some initial success as new-wavey pop group The Tourists, Lennox and her musical partner Dave Stewart formed Eurythmics, who went on to be one of the biggest groups of the 1980s. Built on Lennox’s soulful voice and eye-catching image as well as bravura electronic pop songs such as Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This), Here Comes The Rain Again and Who’s That Girl?, Eurythmics achieved enormous international success and broadened their musical palette to incorporate rockier songs such as Would I Lie To You? and soul stompers such as Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves. But, after eight albums and tens of millions of record sales, Lennox decided to launch a solo career.

Her big-selling solo work, beginning with 1992’s Diva and consisting of five subsequent albums, has long given full rein to her voice, songwriting and visual imagination and she has also, as Nostalgia proves, become a brilliant re-interpreter of other people’s songs.

But there has always been much more to Lennox than her music: her tireless activism and philanthropy for a wide range of causes saw her awarded an OBE in 2010 to display next to her Grammys, Ivors and a record number of BRIT Awards for a female artist. Now her BASCA Fellowship can join that collection, the latest well-deserved accolade in a career that might not have made her a celebrity, but has certainly seen her become one of the UK’s most-beloved musical figures.

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Awards BASCA Fellowship

The Fellowship is the highest honour BASCA bestows.

It is peer recognition of the enormous contribution a particular songwriter or composer has made to the British musical landscape.

BASCA Fellowship At the launch of her latest solo album in London last year, Annie Lennox was very clear about one thing: she is not a celebrity.

“My name sometimes gets put in the celebrity category and it freaks me out,” she said as she launched her latest collection of cover versions, Nostalgia. “I’ve never seen myself that way and I find it diminishing. What I am is a musician and a communicator.”

Lennox, of course, is famous; one of the most recognisable performers of the last 40 years, in fact. But if her point was that her renown has been built upon genuine achievement as a superb singer and songwriter, then it was a well-made one. There has been little of the modern day celebrity stuff and nonsense about her career in The Tourists, Eurythmics and as a solo star – no reality TV appearances, fragrance launches or glossy at-home magazine spreads.

But there has been an awful lot of convention-defying and mould-breaking – and an avalanche of great music.

After some initial success as new-wavey pop group The Tourists, Lennox and her musical partner Dave Stewart formed Eurythmics, who went on to be one of the biggest groups of the 1980s. Built on Lennox’s soulful voice and eye-catching image as well as bravura electronic pop songs such as Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This), Here Comes The Rain Again and Who’s That Girl?, Eurythmics achieved enormous international success and broadened their musical palette to incorporate rockier songs such as Would I Lie To You? and soul stompers such as Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves. But, after eight albums and tens of millions of record sales, Lennox decided to launch a solo career.

Her big-selling solo work, beginning with 1992’s Diva and consisting of five subsequent albums, has long given full rein to her voice, songwriting and visual imagination and she has also, as Nostalgia proves, become a brilliant re-interpreter of other people’s songs.

But there has always been much more to Lennox than her music: her tireless activism and philanthropy for a wide range of causes saw her awarded an OBE in 2010 to display next to her Grammys, Ivors and a record number of BRIT Awards for a female artist. Now her BASCA Fellowship can join that collection, the latest well-deserved accolade in a career that might not have made her a celebrity, but has certainly seen her become one of the UK’s most-beloved musical figures.

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C O N G R AT U L AT I O N S

ANNIE LENNOX ON YOUR BASCA FELLOWSHIP

L O V E F R O M A L L AT ISLAND RECORDS

C O N G R AT U L AT I O N S

ANNIE LENNOX ON YOUR BASCA FELLOWSHIP

L O V E F R O M A L L AT ISLAND RECORDS

Roll of Honour Previous Recipients

Roll of Honour A Bryan Adams Kevin Adams Victoria Adams Adamski Adele Adkins Matt Aitken Damon Albarn Simon Aldred Lily Allen Marc Almond David Alspach Ian Anderson Benny Andersson Colin Angus Adam Ant Eric Appapoulay Iain Archer Joan Armatrading Reginald Armitage Simon Armitage Craig Armstrong Dido Armstrong Rollo Armstrong David Arnold Malcolm Arnold Ken Ashby Richard Ashcroft Astro Avant Mick Avory

B Phillip Bailey Nick Baines Nick Banks Tony Banks Gary Barlow Howard Barnes John Barry Paul Barry Mike Barson Lionel Bart Mike Batt Nick Batt BBC Television Jeff Beck Richard Beddow Mark Bedford Ashely Beedle The 2015 Ivor Novello Awards 70

Andy Bell Matthew Bellamy Joseph Belmaati Simon Belofsky Brian Bennett Richard Rodney Bennett Lennox Berkeley Guy Berryman Wayne Bickerton Biddu Acker Bilk Ronald Binge Richard Birdsall Harrison Birtwistle Don Black Jet Black Stanley Black James Blake Bloodshy James Blunt John Bonham Bono Steve Booker Adrian Boult David Bowie Boy George James Dean Bradfield Caryl Brahms Chris Braide Paul Brennan Leslie Bricusse Terry Britten Gary Brooker Errol Brown James Brown Melanie Brown Andy Brown Wallis Buchanan Jonny Buckland Emma Bunton Linus Burdick Geoffrey Burgon Brian Burke Philip Burley Jean Jacques Burnell Kate Bush Ralph Butler David Byrne

C Peter Callander Bernie Calvert

Ali Campbell Robin Campbell Tony Carr Ronald Cass Richard Cassell Nick Cave Guy Chambers Will Champion Tom Chaplin Mike Chapman Hugh Charles Hugo Chegwin Nicky Chinn Melanie Chisholm Jeff Christie Lauren Christy Eric Clapton Allan Clarke Helen Clarke Vince Clarke Alison Clarkson Adam Clayton Simon Climie Eric Coates Jarvis Cocker Tony Cole Michael Coleman Edwyn Collins Phil Collins Mike Conlin Nathan Connolly Tommie Connor Russ Conway Norman Cook Roger Cook Gaz Coombes Hugh Cornwell Elvis Costello Billy Cotton Phil Coulter Bill Couturie Noël Coward Graham Coxon Mikey Craig Robbie Craig Harry Craze Lol Crème Warren Cuccurullo Philip Cunningham

D Michael D’Abo

Roger Daltrey Jerry Dammers Johnny Dankworth John Danter Shaun Davey Craig David Hal David Dave Davies Ray Davies Rick Davies Carl Davis Rob Davis Joris De Man Julian De Martino Lynsey De Paul Marius De Vries John Deacon Stephen Deal Robert Del Naja Lana Del Rey Ian Dench Cathy Dennis Marcella Detroit Ian Devaney Pete Devereux Dextrous Bruce Dickinson Ted Dicks Chris Difford Ralph Dollimore Howard Donald Lonnie Donegan Donovan Ray Dorset Carl Douglas Jonathan Dove Candida Doyle Patrick Doyle Sam Doyle Lamont Dozier Benjamin Drew Duffy Ed Dwane

E Nathan East Graeme Edge Graham Edwards Robert Elhai Bobby Elliott Vivian Ellis Warren Ellis

Jorgen Elofsson Kenyon Emrys-Roberts Brian Eno John Entwistle Enya Brian Epstein Paul Epworth Mikkel Eriksen Michelle Escoffrey Tolchard Evans Tom Evans

F Siobhan Fahey Fred Fairbrass Richard Fairbrass Earl Falconer Alexander Faris Robert Farnon George Fenton Bryan Ferry Paul Field Harold Fields Ben Findon Rob Fisher Simon Fisher Turner Jack Fishman Michael Flanders Guy Fletcher Nigel Fletcher Doug Flett Herbie Flowers Chris Foreman David Frank Gordon Franks Marti Frederiksen Douglas Furber

G Peter Gabriel Gabrielle Noel Gallagher Kenny Gamble Guy Garvey David Gavurin Bob Geldof Janick Gers Amanda Ghost Barry Gibb Maurice Gibb Robin Gibb

Ian Gibbons Roland Gift Gillian Gilbert Peter Gill Dan Gillespie Sells David Gilmour Gary Glitter Jeremy Godfrey Kevin Godley Danny Goffey Andrew Gold Simon Goldenberg Alison Goldfrapp Howard Goodall Ron Goodwin Martin Gore Graham Gouldman Ed Graham Kenny Graham Ron Grainer David Gray Matt Gray Philip Green Thomas Green Roger Greenaway David Greenfield Colin Greenwood Jonny Greenwood John Gregory Will Gregory Harry Gregson-Williams Barrie Guard Christopher Gunning Jonas Gwangwa

H Steve Hackett Graeme Hall Geri Halliwell Peter Ham Russ Hamilton Albert Hammond George Hammond Hagan John Hammond Hagan Mich Hansen Edgar Yipsel Harburg Paul Hardcastle Robert Hardy John Harle Ken Hare Calvin Harris Jet Harris

Max Harris Steve Harris George Harrison Charles Hart Peter Hart PJ Harvey Ronnie Harwood Norman Hassan Tony Hatch Tim Hawes Michael Hawker Dan Hawkins Justin Hawkins Alan Hawkshaw Roy Hay Justin Hayward Topper Headon Fran Healy Imogen Heap Geoffrey Heath Ted Heath Alex Heffes Joe Henderson David Heneker Alan Herbert Tor Erik Hermansen Nigel Hess Jamie Hewlett Tony Hicks Brian Higgins Andy Hill Benny Hill Darren Hill Mark Hill Wayne Hill Tony Hiller Nick Hodgson Roger Hodgson Scott Hoffman Noel Hogan Brian Holland Eddie Holland Richard Holmes Simon Holt Peter Hook Nellee Hooper Nicholas Hooper Peter Hope Trevor Horn Joseph Horovitz Darren House Dominic Howard Catherine Howe

Mick Hucknall Leon Huff Richard Hughes Chrissie Hynde

I John Illsley Ashley Ingram Neil Innes Yusuf Islam

J Mick Jagger Alex James Bradley James Dick James Stewart James Rupert Jarvis Jazzie B Will Jennings Ciaran Jeremiah Kevin Jeremiah Elton John Holly Johnson Laurie Johnson Henrik Jonback Dan Jones John Paul Jones Kenney Jones Mick Jones Quincy Jones Richard Jones Tom Jones Paul Joyce Richard Jupp

K Michael Kamen Alex Kapranos Simon Katz Jason Kay Ronan Keating Tim Kellet Gary Kemp Eliot Kennedy Jimmy Kennedy Gerard Kenny Natasha Khan Denis King Steve Kipner The 2015 Ivor Novello Awards 71

Roll of Honour Previous Recipients

Roll of Honour A Bryan Adams Kevin Adams Victoria Adams Adamski Adele Adkins Matt Aitken Damon Albarn Simon Aldred Lily Allen Marc Almond David Alspach Ian Anderson Benny Andersson Colin Angus Adam Ant Eric Appapoulay Iain Archer Joan Armatrading Reginald Armitage Simon Armitage Craig Armstrong Dido Armstrong Rollo Armstrong David Arnold Malcolm Arnold Ken Ashby Richard Ashcroft Astro Avant Mick Avory

B Phillip Bailey Nick Baines Nick Banks Tony Banks Gary Barlow Howard Barnes John Barry Paul Barry Mike Barson Lionel Bart Mike Batt Nick Batt BBC Television Jeff Beck Richard Beddow Mark Bedford Ashely Beedle The 2015 Ivor Novello Awards 70

Andy Bell Matthew Bellamy Joseph Belmaati Simon Belofsky Brian Bennett Richard Rodney Bennett Lennox Berkeley Guy Berryman Wayne Bickerton Biddu Acker Bilk Ronald Binge Richard Birdsall Harrison Birtwistle Don Black Jet Black Stanley Black James Blake Bloodshy James Blunt John Bonham Bono Steve Booker Adrian Boult David Bowie Boy George James Dean Bradfield Caryl Brahms Chris Braide Paul Brennan Leslie Bricusse Terry Britten Gary Brooker Errol Brown James Brown Melanie Brown Andy Brown Wallis Buchanan Jonny Buckland Emma Bunton Linus Burdick Geoffrey Burgon Brian Burke Philip Burley Jean Jacques Burnell Kate Bush Ralph Butler David Byrne

C Peter Callander Bernie Calvert

Ali Campbell Robin Campbell Tony Carr Ronald Cass Richard Cassell Nick Cave Guy Chambers Will Champion Tom Chaplin Mike Chapman Hugh Charles Hugo Chegwin Nicky Chinn Melanie Chisholm Jeff Christie Lauren Christy Eric Clapton Allan Clarke Helen Clarke Vince Clarke Alison Clarkson Adam Clayton Simon Climie Eric Coates Jarvis Cocker Tony Cole Michael Coleman Edwyn Collins Phil Collins Mike Conlin Nathan Connolly Tommie Connor Russ Conway Norman Cook Roger Cook Gaz Coombes Hugh Cornwell Elvis Costello Billy Cotton Phil Coulter Bill Couturie Noël Coward Graham Coxon Mikey Craig Robbie Craig Harry Craze Lol Crème Warren Cuccurullo Philip Cunningham

D Michael D’Abo

Roger Daltrey Jerry Dammers Johnny Dankworth John Danter Shaun Davey Craig David Hal David Dave Davies Ray Davies Rick Davies Carl Davis Rob Davis Joris De Man Julian De Martino Lynsey De Paul Marius De Vries John Deacon Stephen Deal Robert Del Naja Lana Del Rey Ian Dench Cathy Dennis Marcella Detroit Ian Devaney Pete Devereux Dextrous Bruce Dickinson Ted Dicks Chris Difford Ralph Dollimore Howard Donald Lonnie Donegan Donovan Ray Dorset Carl Douglas Jonathan Dove Candida Doyle Patrick Doyle Sam Doyle Lamont Dozier Benjamin Drew Duffy Ed Dwane

E Nathan East Graeme Edge Graham Edwards Robert Elhai Bobby Elliott Vivian Ellis Warren Ellis

Jorgen Elofsson Kenyon Emrys-Roberts Brian Eno John Entwistle Enya Brian Epstein Paul Epworth Mikkel Eriksen Michelle Escoffrey Tolchard Evans Tom Evans

F Siobhan Fahey Fred Fairbrass Richard Fairbrass Earl Falconer Alexander Faris Robert Farnon George Fenton Bryan Ferry Paul Field Harold Fields Ben Findon Rob Fisher Simon Fisher Turner Jack Fishman Michael Flanders Guy Fletcher Nigel Fletcher Doug Flett Herbie Flowers Chris Foreman David Frank Gordon Franks Marti Frederiksen Douglas Furber

G Peter Gabriel Gabrielle Noel Gallagher Kenny Gamble Guy Garvey David Gavurin Bob Geldof Janick Gers Amanda Ghost Barry Gibb Maurice Gibb Robin Gibb

Ian Gibbons Roland Gift Gillian Gilbert Peter Gill Dan Gillespie Sells David Gilmour Gary Glitter Jeremy Godfrey Kevin Godley Danny Goffey Andrew Gold Simon Goldenberg Alison Goldfrapp Howard Goodall Ron Goodwin Martin Gore Graham Gouldman Ed Graham Kenny Graham Ron Grainer David Gray Matt Gray Philip Green Thomas Green Roger Greenaway David Greenfield Colin Greenwood Jonny Greenwood John Gregory Will Gregory Harry Gregson-Williams Barrie Guard Christopher Gunning Jonas Gwangwa

H Steve Hackett Graeme Hall Geri Halliwell Peter Ham Russ Hamilton Albert Hammond George Hammond Hagan John Hammond Hagan Mich Hansen Edgar Yipsel Harburg Paul Hardcastle Robert Hardy John Harle Ken Hare Calvin Harris Jet Harris

Max Harris Steve Harris George Harrison Charles Hart Peter Hart PJ Harvey Ronnie Harwood Norman Hassan Tony Hatch Tim Hawes Michael Hawker Dan Hawkins Justin Hawkins Alan Hawkshaw Roy Hay Justin Hayward Topper Headon Fran Healy Imogen Heap Geoffrey Heath Ted Heath Alex Heffes Joe Henderson David Heneker Alan Herbert Tor Erik Hermansen Nigel Hess Jamie Hewlett Tony Hicks Brian Higgins Andy Hill Benny Hill Darren Hill Mark Hill Wayne Hill Tony Hiller Nick Hodgson Roger Hodgson Scott Hoffman Noel Hogan Brian Holland Eddie Holland Richard Holmes Simon Holt Peter Hook Nellee Hooper Nicholas Hooper Peter Hope Trevor Horn Joseph Horovitz Darren House Dominic Howard Catherine Howe

Mick Hucknall Leon Huff Richard Hughes Chrissie Hynde

I John Illsley Ashley Ingram Neil Innes Yusuf Islam

J Mick Jagger Alex James Bradley James Dick James Stewart James Rupert Jarvis Jazzie B Will Jennings Ciaran Jeremiah Kevin Jeremiah Elton John Holly Johnson Laurie Johnson Henrik Jonback Dan Jones John Paul Jones Kenney Jones Mick Jones Quincy Jones Richard Jones Tom Jones Paul Joyce Richard Jupp

K Michael Kamen Alex Kapranos Simon Katz Jason Kay Ronan Keating Tim Kellet Gary Kemp Eliot Kennedy Jimmy Kennedy Gerard Kenny Natasha Khan Denis King Steve Kipner The 2015 Ivor Novello Awards 71

Roll of Honour Previous Recipients

Peter Kircher Pete Kirtley Victor Knight Mark Knopfler Beyoncé Knowles Herbert Kretzmer Greg Kurstin

L Denny Laine Elizabeth Lamers Alan Lancaster Rob Lane Ronnie Lane Robert John “Mutt” Lang Gordon Langford Avril Lavigne Simon Le Bon Tsidii Le Loka Mike Leander Lebo M David Lee Martin Lee Mick Leeson Jerry Leiber John Lennon Annie Lennox Ken Leray Jona Lewie Michael Lewis Shaznay Lewis Gary Lightbody Dave Lindup Ian Livingston Andrew Lloyd Webber John Lodge Jerry Lordan Gordon Lorenz Joe Loss Ben Lovett Chris Lowe Graham Lyle Vera Lynn Jeff Lynne

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Steve Mackey Cameron Mackintosh James MacMillan Madonna Dominic Major Mark Mancina Annunzio Paolo Mantovani Rob Manzoli Dario Marianelli Johnny Marr Steve Marriott Grant Marshall Winston Marshall Bill Martin Chris Martin George Martin Hank Marvin Eric Maschwitz Barry Mason Nick Mason Scott Matthews Peter Maxwell Davies Brian May Simon May Robert Mayer Nicko McBrain John McCabe Nick McCarthy Paul McCartney Mark McClelland Jonas McCord Johnny McElhone Derrick McKenzie Timothy McKenzie Ian McLagan Stuart McLennan Ralph McTell Christine McVie Tony Meehan Joe Meek Yehudi Menuhin Freddie Mercury George Michael Mika John Miles Ronald Millar Gordon Mills Richard G Mitchell Keith Moon Sean Moore Patrick Moraz Julian More Dennis Morgan

Andrew Morris Stephen Morris Van Morrison Morrissey Harry Mortimer Tony Mortimer Jon Moss Mousse T Richard Mullan Larry Mullen Jnr Marcus Mumford Dave Murray Mitch Murray Frank Musker Peter Myers Stanley Myers

N Graham Nash Norman Newell Anthony Newley Joe Newman Randy Newman Peter Nicholls Monty Norman Julian Nott Rick Nowells Trevor Nunn Paolo Nutini Michael Nyman

O Conor O’Brien Ed O’Brien Delores O’Riordan Gilbert O’Sullivan Mark O’Toole Tom Odell Patrick Okogwu Mike Oldfield Jason Orange William Orbit Cyril Ornadel Roland Orzabal Gary Osborne Tony Osborne Mark Owen

P Bill Padley Jimmy Page Rick Parfitt Eula Parker Justin Parker James Paterson Anup Paul Jeremy Paul Jack Payne Daniel Pemberton Jimmy Perry Martin Phipps Ken Pickett Phil Pickett Mike Pinder Marco Pirroni Robert Plant Graeme Pleeth Joel Pott Craig Potter Mark Potter Frankie Poullain John Powell Tim Powell Michael Pratt Reg Presley Stuart Price

Q Mick Quinn Jonny Quinn

R Steve Race Gerry Rafferty Dizzee Rascal Paul Reade Les Reed Lou Reed Hannah Reid John Reid Keith Reid Remee Salaam Remi Errol Rennalls Dorothy Reynolds Nick Rhodes Tim Rice

Tim Rice-Oxley Cliff Richard Keith Richards Andrew Ridgeley Jay Rifkin Simon Rix Paddy Roberts Steven Roberts BA Robertson Smokey Robinson Stephen Robson Darren Rock Jim Rodford Nile Rodgers Paul Rodgers David Rogers Joe Roncoroni Mike Rosenberg Gavin Rossdale Francis Rossi Daniel Rothman Matt Rowe Kevin Rowland Tom Rowlands Dave Rowntree Myles Rudge Willy Russell Mike Rutherford John Rutter Nicky Ryan Roma Ryan

S Gwilym Sainsbury Jeremy Sams Emeli Sandé Peter Sarstedt Dominik Scherrer John Schroeder Mike Scott Seal Neil Sedaka Mátyás Seiber Jason Sellards Phil Selway Russell Senior Ravi Shankar Hal Shaper Francis Shaw Paul Shaw George Shearing Ed Sheeran

Lee Sheriden Ned Sherrin Pam Sheyne Labi Siffre Paul Simonon Ed Simons Peter Sinfield Siouxsie Sioux Sacha Skarbek Mike Skinner Julian Slade Ivor Slaney Allan Smethurst Adrian Smith Hurricane Smith Robert Smith Toby Smith Cathal Smyth Stephen Sondheim Sonique Harold Spiro Sharleen Spiteri Tom Springfield Richard Stannard Lisa Stansfield Ringo Starr David Steele Tommy Steele Geoff Stephens Dave Stewart Eric Stewart Leslie Stewart Paul Stewart Rod Stewart Richard Stilgoe Sting Mike Stock Mike Stoller Michael Storey Keith Strachan Joe Strummer Suggs Donna Summer Bernard Sumner Terry Sylvester

T Alan Tarney Bernie Taupin John Tavener Derek Taverner Andy Taylor

John Taylor Roger Taylor Roger Taylor Robin Taylor-Firth Julie Taymor Rod Temperton Neil Tennant The Edge The Performing Right Society Ray Thomas Lee Thompson Richard Thompson Paul Thomson Glenn Tilbrook Michael Tippett Ernest Tomlinson Steve Torch Pete Townshend Stan Tracey Brian Travers Jackie Trent KT Tunstall Alex Turner Peter Turner

U Björn Ulvaeus Augustus Unger-Hamilton Midge Ure

V Peter Vale Michael Virtue Dick Vosburgh Andrew Vowles

W Tony Waddington Errollyn Wallen William Walton Timothy Wanstall Diane Warren Pat Waterman Pete Waterman Roger Waters Andy Watkins Tommy Watt Charlie Watts Jeff Wayne Jimmy Webb

Des’ree Weekes Orlando Weeks Bruce Welch Paul Weller Keith West Richard West Clive Westlake Harriet Wheeler Tim Wheeler Andrew White Eg White Felix White Hugo White Katie White Carey Willetts Marc Williams Robbie Williams Brian Wilson Paul Wilson Ricky Wilson Amy Winehouse Steve Winwood Nicky Wire Mark Wirtz Steve Wolfe Christopher Wolstenholme Stevie Wonder Haydn Wood Ronnie Wood Roy Wood Daniel Woodgate Jack Woodman Rob Woodward Johnny Worth Lawrence Wright Richard Wright Tom Wright-Goss Bill Wyman

Y Thom Yorke

Z Stuart Zender Hans Zimmer

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Roll of Honour Previous Recipients

Peter Kircher Pete Kirtley Victor Knight Mark Knopfler Beyoncé Knowles Herbert Kretzmer Greg Kurstin

L Denny Laine Elizabeth Lamers Alan Lancaster Rob Lane Ronnie Lane Robert John “Mutt” Lang Gordon Langford Avril Lavigne Simon Le Bon Tsidii Le Loka Mike Leander Lebo M David Lee Martin Lee Mick Leeson Jerry Leiber John Lennon Annie Lennox Ken Leray Jona Lewie Michael Lewis Shaznay Lewis Gary Lightbody Dave Lindup Ian Livingston Andrew Lloyd Webber John Lodge Jerry Lordan Gordon Lorenz Joe Loss Ben Lovett Chris Lowe Graham Lyle Vera Lynn Jeff Lynne

M Tony Macaulay Ewan MacColl Geoff MacCormack Galt Macdermot David Mackay The 2015 Ivor Novello Awards 72

Steve Mackey Cameron Mackintosh James MacMillan Madonna Dominic Major Mark Mancina Annunzio Paolo Mantovani Rob Manzoli Dario Marianelli Johnny Marr Steve Marriott Grant Marshall Winston Marshall Bill Martin Chris Martin George Martin Hank Marvin Eric Maschwitz Barry Mason Nick Mason Scott Matthews Peter Maxwell Davies Brian May Simon May Robert Mayer Nicko McBrain John McCabe Nick McCarthy Paul McCartney Mark McClelland Jonas McCord Johnny McElhone Derrick McKenzie Timothy McKenzie Ian McLagan Stuart McLennan Ralph McTell Christine McVie Tony Meehan Joe Meek Yehudi Menuhin Freddie Mercury George Michael Mika John Miles Ronald Millar Gordon Mills Richard G Mitchell Keith Moon Sean Moore Patrick Moraz Julian More Dennis Morgan

Andrew Morris Stephen Morris Van Morrison Morrissey Harry Mortimer Tony Mortimer Jon Moss Mousse T Richard Mullan Larry Mullen Jnr Marcus Mumford Dave Murray Mitch Murray Frank Musker Peter Myers Stanley Myers

N Graham Nash Norman Newell Anthony Newley Joe Newman Randy Newman Peter Nicholls Monty Norman Julian Nott Rick Nowells Trevor Nunn Paolo Nutini Michael Nyman

O Conor O’Brien Ed O’Brien Delores O’Riordan Gilbert O’Sullivan Mark O’Toole Tom Odell Patrick Okogwu Mike Oldfield Jason Orange William Orbit Cyril Ornadel Roland Orzabal Gary Osborne Tony Osborne Mark Owen

P Bill Padley Jimmy Page Rick Parfitt Eula Parker Justin Parker James Paterson Anup Paul Jeremy Paul Jack Payne Daniel Pemberton Jimmy Perry Martin Phipps Ken Pickett Phil Pickett Mike Pinder Marco Pirroni Robert Plant Graeme Pleeth Joel Pott Craig Potter Mark Potter Frankie Poullain John Powell Tim Powell Michael Pratt Reg Presley Stuart Price

Q Mick Quinn Jonny Quinn

R Steve Race Gerry Rafferty Dizzee Rascal Paul Reade Les Reed Lou Reed Hannah Reid John Reid Keith Reid Remee Salaam Remi Errol Rennalls Dorothy Reynolds Nick Rhodes Tim Rice

Tim Rice-Oxley Cliff Richard Keith Richards Andrew Ridgeley Jay Rifkin Simon Rix Paddy Roberts Steven Roberts BA Robertson Smokey Robinson Stephen Robson Darren Rock Jim Rodford Nile Rodgers Paul Rodgers David Rogers Joe Roncoroni Mike Rosenberg Gavin Rossdale Francis Rossi Daniel Rothman Matt Rowe Kevin Rowland Tom Rowlands Dave Rowntree Myles Rudge Willy Russell Mike Rutherford John Rutter Nicky Ryan Roma Ryan

S Gwilym Sainsbury Jeremy Sams Emeli Sandé Peter Sarstedt Dominik Scherrer John Schroeder Mike Scott Seal Neil Sedaka Mátyás Seiber Jason Sellards Phil Selway Russell Senior Ravi Shankar Hal Shaper Francis Shaw Paul Shaw George Shearing Ed Sheeran

Lee Sheriden Ned Sherrin Pam Sheyne Labi Siffre Paul Simonon Ed Simons Peter Sinfield Siouxsie Sioux Sacha Skarbek Mike Skinner Julian Slade Ivor Slaney Allan Smethurst Adrian Smith Hurricane Smith Robert Smith Toby Smith Cathal Smyth Stephen Sondheim Sonique Harold Spiro Sharleen Spiteri Tom Springfield Richard Stannard Lisa Stansfield Ringo Starr David Steele Tommy Steele Geoff Stephens Dave Stewart Eric Stewart Leslie Stewart Paul Stewart Rod Stewart Richard Stilgoe Sting Mike Stock Mike Stoller Michael Storey Keith Strachan Joe Strummer Suggs Donna Summer Bernard Sumner Terry Sylvester

T Alan Tarney Bernie Taupin John Tavener Derek Taverner Andy Taylor

John Taylor Roger Taylor Roger Taylor Robin Taylor-Firth Julie Taymor Rod Temperton Neil Tennant The Edge The Performing Right Society Ray Thomas Lee Thompson Richard Thompson Paul Thomson Glenn Tilbrook Michael Tippett Ernest Tomlinson Steve Torch Pete Townshend Stan Tracey Brian Travers Jackie Trent KT Tunstall Alex Turner Peter Turner

U Björn Ulvaeus Augustus Unger-Hamilton Midge Ure

V Peter Vale Michael Virtue Dick Vosburgh Andrew Vowles

W Tony Waddington Errollyn Wallen William Walton Timothy Wanstall Diane Warren Pat Waterman Pete Waterman Roger Waters Andy Watkins Tommy Watt Charlie Watts Jeff Wayne Jimmy Webb

Des’ree Weekes Orlando Weeks Bruce Welch Paul Weller Keith West Richard West Clive Westlake Harriet Wheeler Tim Wheeler Andrew White Eg White Felix White Hugo White Katie White Carey Willetts Marc Williams Robbie Williams Brian Wilson Paul Wilson Ricky Wilson Amy Winehouse Steve Winwood Nicky Wire Mark Wirtz Steve Wolfe Christopher Wolstenholme Stevie Wonder Haydn Wood Ronnie Wood Roy Wood Daniel Woodgate Jack Woodman Rob Woodward Johnny Worth Lawrence Wright Richard Wright Tom Wright-Goss Bill Wyman

Y Thom Yorke

Z Stuart Zender Hans Zimmer

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Acknowledgments

Congratulations to all winners and nominees

The 60th Ivor Novello Awards

We support songwriters and composers in need Since 1934, the PRS for Music Members Benevolent Fund has been helping PRS members, ex-members and their dependants who require financial support. The help and support we provide can sometimes include grants, sheltered accommodation, debt management advice and career counselling.

If you wish to support us to ensure our good work continues, please visit prsformusicfund.com /donate

BASCA wishes to thank PRS for Music, our Sponsor Paul Gambaccini, our Host Mark Fishlock, our Scriptwriter Tom Robinson, our Narrator Derek Healey and team at Capitol House Productions for the stage and audio visual production Alex Spargo for the picture and video research Ceremony audio recorded and mixed by Gerry O’Riordan at The Soundhouse Paul Hartnoll for composing Form an Audley Cue, The Ivors theme music This year’s award presenters

To find out more and apply for help, visit prsformusicfund.com or call 020 3741 4067.

Mike Wilson and Meltcharm Products Ltd for our exquisite statuettes

Members Benevolent Fund A Registered Charity No. 208671 PRS for Music Members Benevolent Fund, 2 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG

Trustees: Peter Glenister, Nicky Graham, Paul Patterson.

Committee of Management: Ray Davies Chairman, Brian Willey Deputy Chairman, Mark Fishlock, Chris Gunning, Peter Knight Jr, Mick Leeson, Eddie Levy, Michael Lindup, Paulette Long, Megg Nicol, Sarah Rodgers, Muff Winwood.

Patrons: Don Black OBE, Geoffrey Brand, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CH, CBE, Jools Holland OBE, Dr Brian May CBE, Sir Tim Rice, Rick Wakeman.

General Secretary: John Logan.

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Gary Osborne and members of The Ivors Committee The songwriters and composers who sat on this year’s judging panels Pete Compton, our Independent Adjudicator Anna Bailey and team at the Grosvenor House Annabel Fitzgerald, Mandy Read and team for their back stage management Nicola Hoare and Zoe Willis, our Stage Assistants Christine Akehurst, for keeping everyone in check Paul Mctaggart and team at Pace Prestige Services Ltd Mark Allan for our official photography Peter Mountstevens, Jen Fairweather and team at Taylor Herring PR All the staff at BASCA and ushers volunteering on the day Chris Butler and Tom Farncombe at Music Sales for The Ivors Nominee Songbook 2015 PPL and VPL for the kind permission to use sound and video recordings MCPS for the synchronisation licence in relation to all compositions Joanne Viner for the programme production Mark Sutherland for writing all nine of our award recipient profiles Rhian Jones for writing 60 Years of BASCA and the Ivor Novello Awards Kevin Kirkham and team at the Complete Print Group for our printing At BASCA The Ivors Producer and Head of Events, Fran Matthews Event Coordinator, Kate MacCormick

The 2015 Ivor Novello Awards 75

Acknowledgments

Congratulations to all winners and nominees

The 60th Ivor Novello Awards

We support songwriters and composers in need Since 1934, the PRS for Music Members Benevolent Fund has been helping PRS members, ex-members and their dependants who require financial support. The help and support we provide can sometimes include grants, sheltered accommodation, debt management advice and career counselling.

If you wish to support us to ensure our good work continues, please visit prsformusicfund.com /donate

BASCA wishes to thank PRS for Music, our Sponsor Paul Gambaccini, our Host Mark Fishlock, our Scriptwriter Tom Robinson, our Narrator Derek Healey and team at Capitol House Productions for the stage and audio visual production Alex Spargo for the picture and video research Ceremony audio recorded and mixed by Gerry O’Riordan at The Soundhouse Paul Hartnoll for composing Form an Audley Cue, The Ivors theme music This year’s award presenters

To find out more and apply for help, visit prsformusicfund.com or call 020 3741 4067.

Mike Wilson and Meltcharm Products Ltd for our exquisite statuettes

Members Benevolent Fund A Registered Charity No. 208671 PRS for Music Members Benevolent Fund, 2 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG

Trustees: Peter Glenister, Nicky Graham, Paul Patterson.

Committee of Management: Ray Davies Chairman, Brian Willey Deputy Chairman, Mark Fishlock, Chris Gunning, Peter Knight Jr, Mick Leeson, Eddie Levy, Michael Lindup, Paulette Long, Megg Nicol, Sarah Rodgers, Muff Winwood.

Patrons: Don Black OBE, Geoffrey Brand, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CH, CBE, Jools Holland OBE, Dr Brian May CBE, Sir Tim Rice, Rick Wakeman.

General Secretary: John Logan.

Facebook.com/prsfund

Twitter.com/prsfund

Gary Osborne and members of The Ivors Committee The songwriters and composers who sat on this year’s judging panels Pete Compton, our Independent Adjudicator Anna Bailey and team at the Grosvenor House Annabel Fitzgerald, Mandy Read and team for their back stage management Nicola Hoare and Zoe Willis, our Stage Assistants Christine Akehurst, for keeping everyone in check Paul Mctaggart and team at Pace Prestige Services Ltd Mark Allan for our official photography Peter Mountstevens, Jen Fairweather and team at Taylor Herring PR All the staff at BASCA and ushers volunteering on the day Chris Butler and Tom Farncombe at Music Sales for The Ivors Nominee Songbook 2015 PPL and VPL for the kind permission to use sound and video recordings MCPS for the synchronisation licence in relation to all compositions Joanne Viner for the programme production Mark Sutherland for writing all nine of our award recipient profiles Rhian Jones for writing 60 Years of BASCA and the Ivor Novello Awards Kevin Kirkham and team at the Complete Print Group for our printing At BASCA The Ivors Producer and Head of Events, Fran Matthews Event Coordinator, Kate MacCormick

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BASCA BASCA Board Simon Darlow (Chairman), Mark Ayres, Issie Barratt, Alan Bullard, Tim Fraser, Richard Jacques, Mick Leeson, Stephen McNeff, Gary Osborne, Paul Plant, Jenni Roditi Chief Executive Vick Bain BASCA Fellows John Adams, David Arnold, Malcolm Arnold, John Barry, Don Black, Pierre Boulez, John Dankworth, George Fenton, David Ferguson, Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb, Elton John, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Peter Maxwell Davies, Paul McCartney, Tim Rice The Ivors Committee Gary Osborne (Chairman), Kim Appleby, Gary Barlow, Guy Chambers, Cathy Dennis, Richard Jacques, Mick Leeson, Tom Robinson, Nitin Sawhney, Sharleen Spiteri, Shirley Thompson, Paul Gambaccini (Independent Advisor), Myles Keller (PRS for Music Representative), Fran Matthews (BASCA Head of Events) The Ivors and Euterpe (The Ivors Statuette, designed in 1955 by Hazel Underwood) are trademarks belonging to BASCA. Persons wishing to reproduce or use these marks must secure the written consent of BASCA prior to use.

You are not permitted to record, photograph or film any part of the Ivor Novello Awards 2015 event without a specific licence from BASCA. Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained within this publication, BASCA cannot be liable for errors or omissions. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of BASCA.

BASCA 2 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG T 020 7636 2929 E info@basca.org.uk W www.basca.org.uk The 2015 Ivor Novello Awards 76

BASCA BASCA Board Simon Darlow (Chairman), Mark Ayres, Issie Barratt, Alan Bullard, Tim Fraser, Richard Jacques, Mick Leeson, Stephen McNeff, Gary Osborne, Paul Plant, Jenni Roditi Chief Executive Vick Bain BASCA Fellows John Adams, David Arnold, Malcolm Arnold, John Barry, Don Black, Pierre Boulez, John Dankworth, George Fenton, David Ferguson, Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb, Elton John, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Peter Maxwell Davies, Paul McCartney, Tim Rice The Ivors Committee Gary Osborne (Chairman), Kim Appleby, Gary Barlow, Guy Chambers, Cathy Dennis, Richard Jacques, Mick Leeson, Tom Robinson, Nitin Sawhney, Sharleen Spiteri, Shirley Thompson, Paul Gambaccini (Independent Advisor), Myles Keller (PRS for Music Representative), Fran Matthews (BASCA Head of Events) The Ivors and Euterpe (The Ivors Statuette, designed in 1955 by Hazel Underwood) are trademarks belonging to BASCA. Persons wishing to reproduce or use these marks must secure the written consent of BASCA prior to use.

You are not permitted to record, photograph or film any part of the Ivor Novello Awards 2015 event without a specific licence from BASCA. Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained within this publication, BASCA cannot be liable for errors or omissions. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of BASCA.

BASCA 2 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG T 020 7636 2929 E info@basca.org.uk W www.basca.org.uk The 2015 Ivor Novello Awards 76

BASCA BASCA Board Simon Darlow (Chairman), Mark Ayres, Issie Barratt, Alan Bullard, Tim Fraser, Richard Jacques, Mick Leeson, Stephen McNeff, Gary Osborne, Paul Plant, Jenni Roditi Chief Executive Vick Bain BASCA Fellows John Adams, David Arnold, Malcolm Arnold, John Barry, Don Black, Pierre Boulez, John Dankworth, George Fenton, David Ferguson, Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb, Elton John, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Peter Maxwell Davies, Paul McCartney, Tim Rice The Ivors Committee Gary Osborne (Chairman), Kim Appleby, Gary Barlow, Guy Chambers, Cathy Dennis, Richard Jacques, Mick Leeson, Tom Robinson, Nitin Sawhney, Sharleen Spiteri, Shirley Thompson, Paul Gambaccini (Independent Advisor), Myles Keller (PRS for Music Representative), Fran Matthews (BASCA Head of Events) The Ivors and Euterpe (The Ivors Statuette, designed in 1955 by Hazel Underwood) are trademarks belonging to BASCA. Persons wishing to reproduce or use these marks must secure the written consent of BASCA prior to use.

You are not permitted to record, photograph or film any part of the Ivor Novello Awards 2015 event without a specific licence from BASCA. Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained within this publication, BASCA cannot be liable for errors or omissions. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of BASCA.

BASCA 2 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG T 020 7636 2929 E info@basca.org.uk W www.basca.org.uk The 2015 Ivor Novello Awards 76