| The Panel's Awards | ||
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Manic Street Preachers Beautiful South Catatonia Gomez Massive Attack |
Dammit. My preview said Only the piss-poor, unattackable Manic Street Preachers are in to spoil things for us. And they did, repeating their victory in this caregory from 1997. | |
| As usual, it seems, the Album and Group go to the same act: Blur, Oasis, the Manics, Verve, and the Manics again. This is the only defeat for Robbie Williams. (Oh dear, that's kinda given the game away...) | "This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours" - Manic Street Preachers "International Velvet" - Catatonia "Bring It On" - Gomez "Mezzanine" - Massive Attack "I've Been Expecting You" - Robbie Williams |
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| BEST BRITISH MALE SOLO ARTIST:
Robbie Williams Ian Brown Bernard Butler Lynden David Hall Fatboy Slim |
In fairness, nothing was going to stop Robbie; not with the massive public backing he's got. Probably the cheapest of his three awards, owing to the paucity of competition. | |
| In the absence of any real talent, my preview I'll pick Des'ree to take the cheap bauble comes true. | BEST BRITISH FEMALE SOLO ARTIST: Des'ree Billie PJ Harvey Hinda Hicks Billie Meyers | |
| BEST BRITISH DANCE ACT:
Fatboy Slim All Saints Faithless Jamiroquai Massive Attack | I'm pleased to see Jamiroquai lose at last, and Norman Cook is not the worst of all destinations. | |
| The People's Choices | ||
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| BEST BRITISH SINGLE:
Robbie Williams - Angels Beautiful South - Perfect Ten Catatonia - Road Rage Cornershop - Brimful of Asha Desree - Life Fatboy Slim - Rockerfella Skank Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next Massive Attack - Teardrops George Michael - Outside Robbie Williams - Millennium | Gosh! What a surprise! As soon as the nominations came out, we thought there's going to be no stopping one of the anthems of the time, "Angels" from taking the title. One of the most deserved awards, let's be frank. | |
One of the oldest groups ever to win this "Newcomer" award do so in very strange style. To be honest, I never expected them to have more than a sniff of the prize: but, they go out and win the darned thing. Steps supremo Pete Waterman suggested the following weekend that the vote was rigged by students at Cambridge and Stratclyde Unis; the BPI and BBC express confidence in their voting systems. | BEST BRITISH NEWCOMER: Belle & Sebastian Five Another Level Billie Cleopatra Cornershop Gomez Hinda Hicks Propellorheads Steps | |
| BEST BRITISH VIDEO:
Robbie Williams - Millennium All Saints - Under the Bridge Mel B / Missy Elliot - I Want You Back Cornershop - Brimful of Asha Jamiroquai - Deeper Underground Massive Attack - Teardrop George Michael - Outside Placebo - Pure Morning Radiohead - No Surprises Robbie Williams - Let Me Entertain You | Right guy, but The Kiss pastiche "Let Me Entertain You" is my tip, ahead of the Bond take-off of "Millennium" wrong clip. | |
| The International Awards | ||
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| BEST INTERNATIONAL NEWCOMER:
Natalie Imbruglia Air B*Witched Eagle-Eye Cherry Savage Garden | Previously: Natalie Imbruglia to be the first actress to turn credible singer. In result, she sweeps the board. Given Belle and Sebastian's victory in the UK category, look out for the Barenaked Ladies' 4th album to deliver them the goods here in 12 months. | |
| Beck gets in for his part-time "Mutations" project; surely he can't win for that. Only he did. | BEST INTERNATIONAL MALE SOLO ARTIST:
Beck Eagle-Eye Cherry Neil Finn Pras Will Smith | |
| BEST INTERNATIONAL FEMALE SOLO ARTIST:
Natalie Imbruglia Sheryl Crow Lauryn Hill Madonna Alanis Morissette | We tipped Lauryn Hill, but suspected Imbruglia would run her close. A Good Result in a great category. | |
| REM, winners in 92, 93, 95 and 97, fall off the podium for the first time ever, in favour of Irish group the Coors. Given that they sold 1.7 million last year, compared with REM's 200,000, there may be a little less surprise. | BEST INTERNATIONAL GROUP:
Coors Air Beastie Boys Fun Lovin' Criminals REM | |
| BEST SOUNDTRACK:
Titanic Boogie Nights Jackie Brown Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels The Wedding Singer | Following the "Biggest Is Best" paradigm of the past few years, Titanic picks up the gong. | |
| Awards in the Gift of the Institute | ||
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| THE FREDDIE MERCURY AWARD:
Jubilee 2000 | The campaign to write off Third World debt was handed a promo coup by this award, presented to Bono of U2 and boxing champion Mohammed Ali. The connection with music in general, or any activity during 1998, was never made clear. | |
| Twenty years after their initial success as two of the Tourists, David A Stewart and Annie Lennox pick up the 19th award between them; a statistic helped by the eligability of female singers in bands until 1991. They're the second 80s act to receive this award, after the Police unaccountably won in 1985. The list Yet To Be Honoured includes Slade, Kate Bush, the Sex Pistols and the Rolling Stones. | OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION:
The Eurythmics | |
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