Special honour for gifted band Elbow - 26/05/09

British rock band Elbow have been given their most unique gift to date in the form of two prestigious gongs at the Ivor Novello Awards.

The group's One Day Like This was voted best song musically and lyrically, beating off competition from warehouse worker Nick Hemming and the Last Shadow Puppets.

Elbow, who won last year's Mercury Prize after years of doing the circuit, also won best contemporary song for Grounds for Divorce.

Guy Garvey, the band's front man, commented: "If nothing else ever happens to me in my whole life, these four boys (fellow band members Mark and Craig Potter, Pete Turner and Richard Jupp) have made the whole thing worth every single second."

Other musicians present at the special event at London's Grosvenor House included gifted singer Duffy, who picked up the special prize for music's most performed work for her anthem Mercy, and Coldplay, who won best-selling British song for Viva La Vida.

The special international award went to Motown legend Smokey Robinson, while the Ting Tings' We Started Nothing picked up the album award.

Special honour for gifted band Elbow - 26/05/09

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