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Duffy's "Mercy" wins song of the year award


Duffy wins big with Mercy at Mojo Awards

By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor
Last Updated: 8:13PM BST 16/06/2008

Duffy, the Welsh singer hailed as the new Dusty Springfield, has won Song of the Year at the Mojo Awards with her hit single, Mercy.

The 23-year-old former waitress has shot to fame in the past six months, offering a clean-cut alternative to Amy Winehouse.

Number one single Mercy is taken from her debut album, Rockferry, which has so far sold close to one million copies.

The awards are voted by readers of Mojo magazine. Editor Phil Alexander called Duffy's song a "timeless" classic. "It could really have come from any period in time over the last 50 years," he said.

The singer - who dropped her first name, Aimee, before launching her pop career - grew up in the tiny North Wales seaside community of Nefyn. The town had no record shops and the story goes that Duffy, with little access to modern music, based her sound on a tape recording of Sixties television show Ready, Steady, Go! which belonged to her father.

Aged 16, she appeared on Wawffactor, a Welsh-language version of Pop Idol, and finished second.

She was snapped up by a record label and the inevitable comparisons with Winehouse followed, although Duffy has steered well clear of the drug problems which have threatened to derail Winehouse's career.

This is her first major award - she was also nominated for Best Newcomer but was beaten to it by The Last Shadow Puppets, the side project of Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner.

Other winners at the annual awards ceremony in east London included Led Zeppelin, named Best Live Act for their comeback performance in London last year.

The Sex Pistols received the Icon Award as the band which has "redefined modern music in the space of one solitary album and influenced every aspect of popular culture, from fashion to the media, film and literature".

Neil Diamond won the Classic Songwriter award, Paul Weller was honoured with an Outstanding Contribution to Music award, and The Specials were inducted into the Mojo Hall of Fame. Genesis were given the Lifetime Achievement award.

Full List of Winners

Song of the Year Award: Mercy by Duffy

Best Breakthrough Act: The Last Shadow Puppets

Best Album Award: Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Hero Award: Motorhead

Icon Award: the Sex Pistols

Best Live Act Award: Led Zeppelin

Classic Songwriter Award: Neil Diamond

Hall of Fame: The Specials

Lifetime Achievement Award: Genesis

Special Award: Judy Collins

Legend Award: Irma Thomas

Classic Album Award: Loveless by My Bloody Valentine

Inspiration Award: John Fogerty

Outstanding Contribution to Music Award: Paul Weller

Roots Award: Toots Hibbert

Les Paul Award: John Martyn

Maverick Award: Mark E Smith

Vision Award: Julien Temple for The Future is Unwritten

Compilation of the Year Award: Juno Original Soundtrack

Catalogue Release of the Year: Pillows & Prayers Cherry Red Records 1981-1984

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[info]complicated_me
2008-06-17 03:37 am UTC (link)
who?

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[info]recycledsilence
2008-06-17 03:37 am UTC (link)
I love that song ^__^

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[info]ahkna
2008-06-17 03:38 am UTC (link)
I do too.

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(no subject) - [info]drayton, 2008-06-17 03:40 am UTC (Expand)

[info]iamcheryltweedy
2008-06-17 03:39 am UTC (link)
the Welsh singer hailed as the new Dusty Springfield

O HALE NO, THAT SHIT DOES NOT FLY

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[info]hardcoresince3
2008-06-17 03:48 am UTC (link)
IAWTC.

that bitch is no dusty

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[info]break__x__down
2008-06-17 03:39 am UTC (link)
I listened to her album with high hopes but I can't say I liked it.

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[info]3n84
2008-06-17 08:22 pm UTC (link)
The album is a *grower*. It gets better with every listen.

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[info]amateur_photog
2008-06-17 03:40 am UTC (link)
A timeless classic?

WHAT?

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[info]iraqinewwave
2008-06-17 03:48 am UTC (link)
LOL

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[info]jazznights
2008-06-17 03:41 am UTC (link)
I love Duffy. Breaking my own heart is my favorite.

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[info]shesasuperhero
2008-06-17 03:41 am UTC (link)
I love the song and I LOVE her voice so much!

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[info]summergirl719
2008-06-17 03:42 am UTC (link)

Mercy was pretty awesome before it got overplayed. I still dig it, but the only other Duffy song I like is "Breaking my own heart."

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[info]missxamanda
2008-06-17 03:43 am UTC (link)
YOU GOT ME BEGGING YOU FOR MERCY!

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[info]light_inaugust
2008-06-17 03:44 am UTC (link)
Why won't you release me?

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[info]iamcheryltweedy
2008-06-17 03:44 am UTC (link)
NO COMPARISON
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[info]_aboutaboy
2008-06-17 03:46 am UTC (link)
I finally downloaded her CD and it was really bad. I will admit that Mercy is pretty catchy but other then that her voice is beyond painful.

I also downloaded Adele's CD and I loooooooooooooooove it.

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[info]hoopymusic_luva
2008-06-17 05:15 am UTC (link)
"...her voice is beyond painful"

AGREED!!

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[info]wantons4u
2008-06-17 03:49 am UTC (link)
'Mercy' is such a good song...that falsetto in the chorus? Gets me everytime!

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[info]jews_for_jonas
2008-06-17 03:49 am UTC (link)
I refreshed ONTD and am in the middle of "Mercy" right now. weird :\ i like her album tbh especially Warwick Ave.

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[info]guiltysweater
2008-06-17 03:50 am UTC (link)
how do you win song of the year for a single that's only been out a couple of months, in the middle of the damn year?!


they don't even fucking try to fool us into thinking they give a fuck what we think anymore.

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[info]quarter_life
2008-06-17 04:47 am UTC (link)
it's been out for ages in the uk, it only just came out in america

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[info]sergeantquakers
2008-06-17 03:51 am UTC (link)
Best Live Act Award: Led Zeppelin
IAWTC.
I love Zeppelin, Motorhead, Sex Pistols (guilty pleasure), and Genesis (old lady music).
I thought the Juno soundtrack suited the movie really well, but I wouldn't listen to it on my own time.

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[info]williammiller
2008-06-17 03:53 am UTC (link)
My work plays her "Mercy" song and people dance around every time they hear it.

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[info]promises___
2008-06-17 03:54 am UTC (link)
ew i heard her sing for the first time yesterday i had to turn the radio off it sounded like whales raping each other.

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[info]rapthisham
2008-06-17 03:54 am UTC (link)
I don't really like that song.

It reminds me of Vegas for some reason though. LIke something they'd play in Ocean's 11 when they're panning over vegas

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[info]silverfox1027
2008-06-17 04:01 am UTC (link)
Can't stand this talentless hack.

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[info]xbruisegrey
2008-06-17 04:10 am UTC (link)
idk anything about this girl, but at first i read that as "duff's" and was like wtf hilary duff won an award for best song?! D:

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[info]paradise_alley
2008-06-17 04:11 am UTC (link)
who was talking shit about her recently? that there's already amy winehouse, etc. etc. wtf. that's like saying there's already a puff daddy or whatever he's called now so that's all we need for rappers.

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[info]stefkttn
2008-06-17 04:25 am UTC (link)
I don't understand the appeal of this song. Her voice grates on my nerves everytime I have to hear it at work.

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[info]miss_ania
2008-06-17 04:25 am UTC (link)
i hate her voice

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[info]sweet_tiff4prez
2008-06-17 04:27 am UTC (link)
me too its just ugh

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[info]sweet_tiff4prez
2008-06-17 04:27 am UTC (link)
her voice is kinda bad

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[info]shadowman_2
2008-06-17 04:31 am UTC (link)
Good song.

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