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Ivor Novello Award winners
- David BowieDavid Robert Jones was born on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London. His mother worked as a waitress at a cinema while his father managed promotions…
- ColdplayChris Martin and Jonny Buckland met during their first week at University College London in September 1996. They began to write their first songs together in…
- John LennonJohn Winston Lennon was born on the 9th of October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. His father Alfred worked as a merchant seaman and was away during…
- MadonnaMadonna Louise Ciccone was born in Bay City, Michigan, on the 16th of August 1958. Her mother died of breast cancer when Madonna was five years old on the…
- Queen (band)In 1963, Brian May built a guitar with his father that would become the signature sound of Queen. The group Smile formed shortly after with singer Tim…
- Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber was born on the 22nd of March 1948 at Westminster Hospital in London. His father William worked as a composer and organist while his…
- T. S. EliotThomas Stearns Eliot was born on the 26th of September 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He lived at a house on Locust Street for his first sixteen years before…
- Elton JohnOn the 25th of March 1947, Reginald Kenneth Dwight entered the world in Pinner, Middlesex. His father served in the Royal Air Force and his mother worked as…
- Led ZeppelinIn August 1968, four musicians gathered in a room below a record store on Gerrard Street in London to play their first song together.
- Spice GirlsIn February 1994, a trade paper called The Stage carried an advertisement seeking singers for an all-female pop band. Four hundred women showed up to…
- AdeleAdele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on the 5th of May 1988 in Tottenham, London. Her mother Penny worked as a furniture maker while her father Marc Evans left…
- George MichaelGeorgios Kyriacos Panayiotou arrived in East Finchley, Middlesex on the 25th of June 1963. He was the youngest child and only son of a Greek Cypriot…
- Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney was born on the 18th of June 1942 at Walton Hospital in the Walton area of Liverpool. His mother Mary Patricia Mohin worked as a nurse and…
- Ed SheeranEdward Christopher Sheeran was born on the 17th of February 1991 in Halifax, West Yorkshire. His family moved to Framlingham, Suffolk, when he was four years…
- Amy WinehouseAmy Jade Winehouse was born at Chase Farm Hospital in Gordon Hill, Enfield, London, on the 14th of September 1983. Her father Mitchell Winehouse worked as a…
- Cat StevensSteven Demetre Georgiou stood on the rooftop above his family's restaurant in Marylebone, London. He listened to musicals drifting from Denmark Street below.
- Blur (band)In December 1988, bassist Alex James joined singer Damon Albarn's band Circus in London. The group initially adopted the name Seymour after J.D.
- Kate BushKate Bush was born on the 30th of July 1958 at a maternity hospital in Bexleyheath, Kent. Her father Robert Bush worked as an English doctor and her mother…
- George HarrisonOn the 25th of February 1943, George Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool. He grew up as the youngest of four children to Harold and…
- Eric ClaptonEric Patrick Clapton was born on the 30th of March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey. His mother Patricia Molly Clapton was only sixteen years old when he arrived into…
- Michael FlandersMichael Henry Flanders was born on the 1st of March 1922 in Hampstead, London. He grew up as the third child and only son to Percy Henry Flanders and his…
- EnyaEithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin arrived in the Dore area of Gaoth Dobhair, known as Gweedore, on the 17th of May 1961. She grew up as the sixth child among…
- Jeff LynneJeffrey Lynne was born on the 30th of December 1947 in Erdington, Birmingham. His father bought him an acoustic guitar for just £2, a instrument he still…