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Godlike Genius Award for Primal Scream
This is London2 Feb 2007
Primal Scream are to be honoured with the NME's Godlike Genius Award. The band will pick up their accolade at the ceremony on March 1.
"About f****** time, we've known it for years," said frontman Bobby Gillespie. It's a great honour to get the same award as a band like The Clash."
Other previous winners include Ozzy Osbourne, New Order and Ian Brown. Primal Scream have notched up 18 hit singles, 11 albums - including the landmark Screamadelica - and a reputation for raucous behaviour during a career spanning more than two decades.
NME editor Conor McNicholas said: "Everyone at NME is really looking forward to welcoming Primal Scream as the Godlike Geniuses at this year's awards. No one parties like Primal Scream. They're a band who have had a massive influence on our scene.
"Our awards are the last big event at the legendary Hammersmith Palais before it's reduced to rubble. Primal Scream may just do that before the bulldozers even get there."
Nominees for other awards at the ceremony include the Arctic Monkeys, Muse and Kasabian. Robbie Williams is up for Worst Album with Rudebox. Pete Doherty has been nominated for both Hero of the Year and Villain of the Year.
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Bolo - its is 2007 not 1967, we have other types of music as well as rock and roll now. Primal Scream realised this sometime ago and were one of the first bands to straddle a number of genres at the same time. Its called being eclectic and its very exciting if you open your mind a little bit. I think you'd either have to know nothing at all about music or be a right miserable so-and-so to deny The Scream this award - they deserve it, ABSOLUTELY no doubt.
- John, UK, 02/02/2007 12:06
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One decent album, the rest middling to poor and they get this acclaim. No wonder rock and roll is dead.
- Bolo Gundarsson, Rekjavijk, 02/02/2007 09:59
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