Winehouse's dad collects Novello

Last Modified: 22 May 2008
Source: ITN

Troubled singer Amy Winehouse has taken the top honours at the Ivor Novello awards but turned up too late to collect her gong.

The star's father Mitch had to go on stage to collect her Best Song Musically and Lyrically award for Love Is A Losing Game on his 24-year-old daughter's behalf.

He told the audience, which featured names like David Gilmour and Mark Ronson: "I don't know what I'm doing up here. Amy unfortunately couldn't make it but she's getting better and she sends you all her love."

Mitch added: "She's asked me to thank the Ivors for being the first to recognise her talent."

The "Oscars" of British songwriting and composing were presented in London by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.

Winehouse had also been nominated in the Best Song Musically and Lyrically category for You Know I'm No Good as well as in the Best-Selling British Song category for Rehab.

Last year, the same autobiographical track won the Ivor Novello for Best Contemporary Song. It was the first time a singer had been twice-nominated for Best Song Musically and Lyrically since the awards were launched in 1955.

In the Best-Selling British Song category, Beautiful Liar, the Beyonce and Shakira track written by Briton Amanda Ghost beat Winehouse's Rehab and Grace Kelly, the song performed and co-written by Mika.

Radiohead's In Rainbows won the Album Award while People Help the People by Cherry Ghost won Best Contemporary Song. The Most Performed Work gong went to Take That for Shine.

The Awards are named after Ivor Novello, the British musician, songwriter, playwright and actor who died in 1951.

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