Tuesday 27 May 2014

Fleetwood Mac Star Honoured At Awards

Christine McVie wrote some of the most famous songs of Fleetwood Mac

Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac has been honored with a career in composition Ivor Novello awards this year.


McVie played with Fleetwood Mac for 28 years and wrote some of his most famous songs, including Do not Stop and Little Lies.

Other winners at the ceremony in London on Thursday include grammar, The Chemical Brothers and Nile Rodgers.

The annual awards, now in their 59th year, are voted on by the composers.


Nile Rodgers, Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac and London grammar were just some of the winners at the Ivor Novello songwriting awards

Collecting his award, confirmed McVie joined Fleetwood Mac had after an absence of over 15 years and would join them on a world tour.

"We are in the process of doing another studio album which should be next year," he added.

Alt -pop trio Grammar London won the award for best song musically and lyrically for strong growth.

Mercury Prize winner James Blake last year received the trophy for best contemporary song by retrograde.

"This is unbelievable," Blake told the BBC behind the scenes”, but the greatest reward is in writing music writing music."



London Grammar defeated John Newman and Palma Violets to win the award for best song musically and lyrically

The best album prize went to Push Away Sky Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Cave said: “We do not come to many award ceremonies, but this is the one we get.”

The Specials founder Jerry Dammers, who won the prize of inspiration, recalled when the band won an award from the BBC Radio 1 in the late 1970s.

“I crashed with a hammer when I got home and threw my gold record for the window, but when I heard this, really touched me.”

Referring to his protest song Free Nelson Mandela said: “If there are any young people here and you feel strongly about something, if you write a song about it you never know where it will end.”

Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin presented the award for her outstanding contribution to British music for rock guitarist Jeff Beck.

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