Duffy wins MOJO song award, Nick Cave best album
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Welsh singer Duffy won MOJO music magazine's song of the year award on Monday with hit single "Mercy", while Australian rockers Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds claimed the best album prize for "Dig, Lazarus Dig!!!".
Other winners at the awards ceremony on Monday included The Last Shadow Puppets, featuring Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner, which won best breakthrough act, and British heavy metal rockers "Motorhead", honored with the MOJO hero award.
"They've influenced everyone from Metallica to Primal Scream," said MOJO magazine editor-in-chief Phil Alexander. "The reason? Well, there's simply no better way to go deaf than by listening to Motorhead."
English punk act the Sex Pistols picked up the MOJO icon award in recognition of their seminal 1970s album "Never Mind the Bollocks ... Here's the Sex Pistols".
"The Sex Pistols truly redefined modern music in the space of one solitary album. Who else has managed that?" Alexander added.
British rockers Led Zeppelin won the best live act award for their one-off reunion gig in London in late 2007, and U.S. singer Neil Diamond was awarded the classic songwriter award.
English band The Specials were inducted into the MOJO Hall of Fame, where they join the likes of Elton John and The Doors.
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(Editing by Paul Casciato)
