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| Double Novello triumph for Elbow | Double Novello triumph for Elbow |
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| Indie band Elbow are celebrating a double win at the Ivor Novello awards, including the main award for best song. | Indie band Elbow are celebrating a double win at the Ivor Novello awards, including the main award for best song. |
| The group, who claimed last year's Mercury Prize, triumphed with One Day Like This while Grounds For Divorce won best contemporary song. | The group, who claimed last year's Mercury Prize, triumphed with One Day Like This while Grounds For Divorce won best contemporary song. |
| The Ting Tings and Duffy also picked up Ivor Novello awards, which honour excellence in music writing. | The Ting Tings and Duffy also picked up Ivor Novello awards, which honour excellence in music writing. |
| Winners of special achievement awards included electro pioneer Vince Clarke and Motown legend Smokey Robinson. | Winners of special achievement awards included electro pioneer Vince Clarke and Motown legend Smokey Robinson. |
| Dance music veterans Massive Attack and Scottish singer-songwriter Edwyn Collins also won special awards. | Dance music veterans Massive Attack and Scottish singer-songwriter Edwyn Collins also won special awards. |
| 'Fierce opposition' | 'Fierce opposition' |
| Picking up Elbow's first award for best contemporary song - beating songs by Dizzee Rascal with Calvin Harris, and The Ting Tings - lead singer Guy Garvey said: "It's a great honour against fierce opposition with some great songs." | Picking up Elbow's first award for best contemporary song - beating songs by Dizzee Rascal with Calvin Harris, and The Ting Tings - lead singer Guy Garvey said: "It's a great honour against fierce opposition with some great songs." |
| Double Novello triumph for Elbow | |
| Returning to the stage at London's Grosvenor House Hotel for the main prize, he added: "This is really something else. | Returning to the stage at London's Grosvenor House Hotel for the main prize, he added: "This is really something else. |
| "I'm gonna talk about being in the band for a moment. | "I'm gonna talk about being in the band for a moment. |
| "We've got this great support surrounding us from our friends and family but, on a personal note, I'd like to say that, if nothing else ever happens to me in my life, these four boys have made the whole thing worth every single second." | "We've got this great support surrounding us from our friends and family but, on a personal note, I'd like to say that, if nothing else ever happens to me in my life, these four boys have made the whole thing worth every single second." |
| Picking up her award for most performed work Mercy alongside co-writer Steve Booker, Duffy thanked those who had helped shape her career. | Picking up her award for most performed work Mercy alongside co-writer Steve Booker, Duffy thanked those who had helped shape her career. |
| "I was a girl from Wales, I did not know what music was. | "I was a girl from Wales, I did not know what music was. |
| "I knew I had a set of pipes and that would get me a frigging long way." | "I knew I had a set of pipes and that would get me a frigging long way." |
| 'Quite scary' | 'Quite scary' |
| Eg White, who co-wrote hits including Adele's Chasing Pavements and Warwick Avenue by Duffy, said it was "very exciting" to win the award for the "fun, fast, quite scary" art of songwriting. | Eg White, who co-wrote hits including Adele's Chasing Pavements and Warwick Avenue by Duffy, said it was "very exciting" to win the award for the "fun, fast, quite scary" art of songwriting. |
| I think creativity is a gift from god - some people get gifts from god Smokey Robinson | I think creativity is a gift from god - some people get gifts from god Smokey Robinson |
| Manchester band The Ting Tings could not pick up their award because they were touring Europe, while Coldplay were unable to claim their best-selling British song gong for Viva La Vida because they are on tour in the US. | Manchester band The Ting Tings could not pick up their award because they were touring Europe, while Coldplay were unable to claim their best-selling British song gong for Viva La Vida because they are on tour in the US. |
| Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, who won best original film score for There Will Be Blood, was also absent. | Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, who won best original film score for There Will Be Blood, was also absent. |
| It was left to the veterans, instead, to show how to deliver a speech. | It was left to the veterans, instead, to show how to deliver a speech. |
| Smokey Robinson, 69, told the audience he had flown to the UK for one day to pick up his special international award. | Smokey Robinson, 69, told the audience he had flown to the UK for one day to pick up his special international award. |
| "I think creativity is a gift from god - some people get gifts from god. | "I think creativity is a gift from god - some people get gifts from god. |
| "For everybody in this room, creativity is your gift and it's what you get." | "For everybody in this room, creativity is your gift and it's what you get." |
| He said song writing "just happens". | He said song writing "just happens". |
| "It could be in your car or in the toilet and something comes. Sometimes it's a song." | "It could be in your car or in the toilet and something comes. Sometimes it's a song." |
| 'Pretty arrogant' | 'Pretty arrogant' |
| Meanwhile, Vince Clarke, who has had hits with acts including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure, simply said it was "a real honour to get this award". | Meanwhile, Vince Clarke, who has had hits with acts including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure, simply said it was "a real honour to get this award". |
| Organisers said it was the first time in his 30-year career that Clarke, 48, who won the outstanding song collection gong, had turned up to pick up an award. | Organisers said it was the first time in his 30-year career that Clarke, 48, who won the outstanding song collection gong, had turned up to pick up an award. |
| Massive Attack's hits include Karmacoma and Teardop | Massive Attack's hits include Karmacoma and Teardop |
| The biggest applause of the ceremony was reserved for Edwyn Collins, 49, formerly of 1980s Glaswegian band Orange Juice and best known for 1994 hit A Girl Like You. | The biggest applause of the ceremony was reserved for Edwyn Collins, 49, formerly of 1980s Glaswegian band Orange Juice and best known for 1994 hit A Girl Like You. |
| Collins, who walked to the stage with a walking stick to pick up the inspiration award, suffered two brain haemorrhages in 2005 before spending a further six months in hospital after a surgical scar became infected with the MRSA bug. | Collins, who walked to the stage with a walking stick to pick up the inspiration award, suffered two brain haemorrhages in 2005 before spending a further six months in hospital after a surgical scar became infected with the MRSA bug. |
| He said that when he was in Orange Juice he was "a pretty arrogant man, but not any more". | He said that when he was in Orange Juice he was "a pretty arrogant man, but not any more". |
| He added: "I'm writing away, 10 new songs at the moment and it truly is fantastic. | He added: "I'm writing away, 10 new songs at the moment and it truly is fantastic. |
| "It's good to be back. Cheers for the special award." | "It's good to be back. Cheers for the special award." |
| Bristol dance music collective Massive Attack won the outstanding contribution to British music award. | Bristol dance music collective Massive Attack won the outstanding contribution to British music award. |
| Founding member 3D - real name Robert Del Naja - said it was "dishonest" to stand on the stage without the many singers they had collaborated with. | Founding member 3D - real name Robert Del Naja - said it was "dishonest" to stand on the stage without the many singers they had collaborated with. |
| They include Shara Nelson, on anthemic 1991 hit Unfinished Sympathy, and Everything But the Girl singer Tracey Thorn on 1995's Protection. | They include Shara Nelson, on anthemic 1991 hit Unfinished Sympathy, and Everything But the Girl singer Tracey Thorn on 1995's Protection. |
| This year's fellowship award went to veteran lyricist Don Black, 70, who co-wrote hits including Born Free and Diamonds Are Forever, as well as musicals including Aspects of Love and Bombay Dreams. | |
| An audience of songwriters, record company executives and pop stars included Damon Albarn, Sophie Ellis Bextor and Rolf Harris. | An audience of songwriters, record company executives and pop stars included Damon Albarn, Sophie Ellis Bextor and Rolf Harris. |