The main prizes - including a lifetime achievement prize for Britpop band Blur - will be handed out at the O2 Arena on 21 February.

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But back in the '90s when his first band Blur was rising high in the self-impressed genre known as Brit pop, I couldn't care less about them.

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He had the best funded campaign too, with financial backing from, among others, Lord Sainsbury, who pumped millions into the Labour coffers during Tony Blair's heyday, and Dave Rowntree, sometime Labour election candidate and the drummer in rock band Blur.

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