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Topic History of: The Ivors 2016
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honey!oh sugar sugar. |
Claude Reigns wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
If Mr King remembers the award, I am sure there must be an explanation for it. It is not the sort of thing you can get confused about if the award is on your mantelpiece.
I too wouldn't doubt JK, but I still think it's bizarre to react to the absence of an Ivor Novello award listing in the official Ivor Novello archive by concluding that the Ivor Novello organisation be less reliable than Wikipedia on the subject of Ivor Novellos! Wiki fails to give any source, other than anecdotal, for its own(en passant) reference, and JK's appearance on ITS list of Ivor Novello winners is BLANK, which hardly shows great research!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ivor_Novello_Award_winners
I did not say that the Ivor Novello organisation is less reliable than Wikipedia.
The posts often come in batches not one by one,so I was not snubbing the helpful link to the Novello list... I think it wasn't there when I posted about Queen. Otherwise it would have been handier to look at the link.
However, just because something is on an official list on the internet doesn't mean it cant be wrong. People make mistakes all the time, or choose to edit history for various reasons.  |
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JK2006 |
It's all very peculiar and frequently inaccurate, isn't it? |
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STRATEGY |
There is an anomaly on the official Novello Award website. According to the ' Our History' article, by 1976 the ceremony had moved to the Grosvenor House Hotel. However according to the 1976 archive page that year's ceremony was held at The Dorchester. The cover of the programme has it at The Dorchester. |
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Claude Reigns |
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
If Mr King remembers the award, I am sure there must be an explanation for it. It is not the sort of thing you can get confused about if the award is on your mantelpiece.
I too wouldn't doubt JK, but I still think it's bizarre to react to the absence of an Ivor Novello award listing in the official Ivor Novello archive by concluding that the Ivor Novello organisation be less reliable than Wikipedia on the subject of Ivor Novellos! Wiki fails to give any source, other than anecdotal, for its own(en passant) reference, and JK's appearance on ITS list of Ivor Novello winners is BLANK, which hardly shows great research!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ivor_Novello_Award_winners |
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honey!oh sugar sugar. |
Claude Reigns wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
The Invisible Man wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
I was in America and Joe Loss collected on my behalf; I think it was for the biggest song of the period and mine was the biggest version.
Queen had awards in 1975 and 1976 according to the Wiki list. It couldn't have been bigger than Killer Queen or Bohemian Rhapsody, so the mystery deepens.
Or maybe Queen's awards were for something else? Some of the categories are a bit creative, like "most recorded" .
Don't bother with wiki. I posted a link to the Ivor archive above!
I am not convinced it is accurate. Why would The Wombling Song, released in 1973, get an award two years later?
You think the official archive is less accurate than wikipedia???
Nothing is less accurate than Wikipedia.  But wiki being a lousy source of information doesn't make everything else accurate.
If Mr King remembers the award, I am sure there must be an explanation for it. It is not the sort of thing you can get confused about if the award is on your mantelpiece.
I mention Queen because it is around the same time, and perhaps one of them (probably Brian May) can remember the other awards. |
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