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Antony & The Johnsons win Mercury Music Prize

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Tuesday, September 6, 2005

Antony & The Johnsons have won the 2005 Mercury Music Prize for their album I Am a Bird Now.

Anthony Hegarty, born in Chichester, United Kingdom, won the award of £20,000 for creating the most original album by a British or Irish act during the last year.

Other nominees included Coldplay, M.I.A. and the bookies favourites The Kaiser Chiefs.

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  • Patrick Barkham. Antony and the Johnsons scoop Mercury prize — Guardian Unlimited, September 07, 2005
  • Antony and Johnsons win Mercury — BBC News, September 06, 2005


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