PJ Harvey makes it a Mercury double
The music industry’s most unpredictable award became, well, a little bit more predictable this year as bookies’ favourite PJ Harvey picked up the Mercury Prize.
The 41-year-old star got the judges’ vote for her 2010 album Let England Shake and was delighted that she could be at the ceremony in person to collect the trophy as she was stranded in the US the first time she won.
Speaking about the award she said: "When I last won 10 years ago on September 11, 2001, I was watching the Pentagon burning from my hotel window. So much has happened since then. This album took me a long time to write. It was very important to me. I wanted to make something meaningful, not just for myself but for other people, and hopefully to make something that would last."
Harvey is the first artist to win the Mercury Prize twice in the award’s 19-year history. She was up against Adele, Anna Calvi, Elbow, Everything Everything, Katy B, James Blake, King Creosote and Jon Hopkins, Ghostpoet, Gwilym Simcock and Tinie Tempah.
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
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smurph25
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Well good for her, I hope I'll try to let my younger to listen to this type of music more and not the typical, manufactured, auto-tuned, chart-topping pop and R&B...
- 9 months ago
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smurph25
