Winehouse won the best contemporary song award for her hit "Rehab", while Arctic Monkeys scooped the best album award for "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not". "Thank you all very much, I didn't even have time to get drunk, I've only been here about 15 minutes," Winehouse joked as she collected her second Ivor. "Whenever we've won things in the past, we've always just walked up here and mouthed off.
We've always neglected to thank anybody so I would like to thank everybody now," he said. US pop diva Madonna, who now lives in London and the southern English countryside, won the International Hit of the Year accolade along with her co-writer Stuart Price for "Sorry". "Until we wrote this song, I'd never written in the same room as anybody before, it was the first time and it was a great experience," John said.
The outstanding contribution to music award went to disc jockey Norman Cook, otherwise known as Fatboy Slim. "I'm not a traditional songwriter, I'm not really a songwriter at all. I take bits of other people's songs and adapt songs," he said.
"To everyone whose songs I've re-mixed, sampled or stolen or been in a band with, I would like to say thank you." Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, received the award for outstanding song collection; ex-Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel won the lifetime achievement award, while a special international award went to US impresario Quincy Jones. The Ivors are named after the British entertainer Ivor Novello, who died in 1951 aged 58.
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