Disc of the day
Emitt Rhodes - Daisy-Fresh From Hawthorne, California (The Best of the Dunhill Years)
McCartney-esque proto-power-pop from the nearly man of ’60s Los Angeles…
Instigated last year to acknowledge a body of work without which the rock and pop music of today would be in a sense inconceivable, the Outstanding Contribution award honoured the immensity of Joy Division, and was collected by bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris, toilers in the shadow of a legacy that would long ago have overwhelmed lesser men. This year, the award is sponsored by The Cavern, the legendary Liverpool venue that can claim, with some justification, to have made a rather outstanding contribution of its own.
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