CULTURE BOX AWARDS FEATURE

 

Mojo Award winners unveiled

19 June 2007 - 00:01:00

Source: Music week

 

 

Amy Winehouse, Alice Cooper, Bob Marley, Ozzy Osbourne and The Good, The Bad & The Queen, were among the artists honoured at the annual Mojo awards ceremony last night.

 

 

Cooper was honoured as a Mojo Hero for his career achievements while Osbourne received the Mojo Icon award, honouring sales of more than 75m albums. Amy Winehouse was voted Mojo’s Woman Of 2006, with her track, Rehab, also named Song Of The Year.

 

 

The winners, who were voted for by the magazine’s readers, received their gongs at The Brewery in London. Other winners at the event included Björk, who took the Mojo Inspiration Award for her diverse and distinctive music style, while Nick Cave presented Suicide with Mojo’s Innovation In Sound.

 

 

Joy Division were recognised for their Outstanding Contribution To Music.

 

THE FULL MOJO HONOURS LIST 2007:

 

The Mojo Best Live Act

 

Arcade Fire

 

The Mojo Breakthrough Act

 

Seasick Steve

 

 

The Mojo Cult Hero

 

The Only Ones

 

The Mojo Maverick

 

Echo & The Bunnymen

 

The Mojo Compilation Of The Year

 

White Bicycles : Making Music In The 1960s - The Joe Boyd Story (Fledgling)

 

The Mojo Hero

 

Alice Cooper

 

The Mojo Song Of The Year

 

Amy Winehouse: Rehab

 

The Mojo Classic Album Award

 

Exodus – Bob Marley

 

The Mojo Medal

 

Jac Holzman

 

The Mojo Vision Award

 

Slade: Slade In Flame (Union Square Music)

 

The Mojo Catalogue Release of the Year

 

Various: The Complete Motown Singles Vol 6. 1966 (Universal)

 

The Mojo Innovation in Sound

 

Suicide

 

The Mojo Best Album

 

‘The Good, The Bad And The Queen’ by Simon Tong, Tony Allen, Paul Simonon and Damon Albarn

 

The Mojo Outstanding Contribution To Music

 

Joy Division

 

The Mojo Inspiration Award

 

Björk

 

The Mojo Les Paul Award

 

Peter Green

 

The Mojo Hall of Fame

 

The Doors

The Mojo Icon

 

Ozzy Osbourne

 

 

The Mojo Legend

 

Ike Turner

 

 

The Mojo Lifetime Achievement Award

 

The Stooges

IKE TURNER?!?! Mojo LEGEND? Err.... excuse me? Are these people for real?

IKE TURNER?!?! Mojo LEGEND? Err.... excuse me? Are these people for real?

 

Nah dude that sounds about right. think its more for what he does now (blues albums, i think it said he's a recent grammy winner) rather just for the baddy in the Tina Turner life story :lol: