The Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting, established in 1955 in Novello's memory, are awarded each year by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors ( BASCA ) to British songwriters and composers as well as to an outstanding international music writer.

This version, released in 1989 was produced by British songwriting and production team formed of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman known as Stock Aitken Waterman.

The radio and television presenter Paul Gambaccini has stated that the Bee Gees were " second only to Lennon and McCartney as the most successful songwriting unit in British popular music ", and recognised Gibb as " one of the major figures in the history of British music one of the best white soul voices ever ".

He has said that his early songwriting " was influenced by early Beatles-the sense of a three-minute guitar-pop song ", and early in his career The Cure's second single Boys Don't Cry was compared by British music paper Record Mirror to " John Lennon at 12 or 13 ".

The genre had its antecedents in the American folk music revival, the beat music of The Beatles and other British Invasion bands, The Animals ' hit recording of the folk song " The House of the Rising Sun ", and the folk-influenced songwriting of The Beau Brummels.

He is still active within the songwriting community and is a member of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors committee.

Their typical approach was to combine sonic elements of the dance-pop that emerged in the wake of the so-called Second Summer of Love ( e. g. samples and digitally synthesized sounds ) with an emphasis on songwriting involving romantic and introspective themes more commonly associated with traditional British pop and rock music.

Matthew James Aitken ( born 25 August 1956, Coventry, England ), is a British songwriter and record producer, brought up in Astley, Greater Manchester, best known as the creative force behind the 1980s songwriting / production trio Stock Aitken Waterman.

From 1972 to 1976, Sherbet's chief songwriting team of Porter and Shakespeare were responsible for co-writing the lion's share of the band's material, which combined British pop and American soul influences.

The book and lyrics are by Anthony Drewe and music is by George Stiles ( of the British songwriting duo Stiles and Drewe ).

* Irving King, pseudonym of the British songwriting team of Jimmy ( James ) Campbell and Reg Connelly

With this concise tour through the gentler side of British songwriting history ...

The Assembly were a British synthpop project formed in 1983 in Basildon, England, by Vince Clarke ( songwriting, keyboards, backing vocals ) and Eric Radcliffe ( songwriting, production ).

After an early 1977 British tour reunited him with Roger McGuinn and Gene Clark, the trio stayed together for two McGuinn-Clark-Hillman albums ( on which Hillman continued his songwriting collaboration with Knobler ) and one under the McGuinn-Hillman name, with a hit single in 1979's " Don't You Write Her Off ".

Fosca was a British band, combining indie pop songwriting with synth pop instrumentation.

* Honey Ryder ( music ), British songwriting duo

After recording two acclaimed solo albums on Vertigo Records, under the sponsorship of former Yardbird Paul Samwell-Smith and surrounded by a who's who of likeminded British semi-folkies ( notably another ex-Fairporter, Richard Thompson ), he formed Plainsong, who signed to Elektra Records and in 1972 produced In Search of Amelia Earhart, which solidified Matthews ' songwriting reputation with the critics, if not with the general public.

Ocean managed another hit in Canada with the song " We've Got a Dream " written by the British songwriting team of Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, but they failed to make any impact in the U. S. and disbanded in 1975 after only two albums.

She received a special award for services to television, the ' Freedom of the City of London ' in recognition of her services to songwriting and a British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors ' Gold Badge Award '.

Roberts was five times the winner of an Ivor Novello Award, four for songwriting and one for services to the British Music Industry.

During this period, the group got notice by the mainstream after opening for blue-eyed soul singer-songwriter Laura Nyro and British rock group The Who during their tours, leading up to the 1973 release of Pressure Cookin ', which featured more songwriting from Hendryx and a more unified group effort in which Dash sung co-lead on including the group's memorable ballad, " Can I Speak to You Before You Go to Hollywood?

The campaigns began with a series of adverts based on the 1986 French film Jean de Florette, directed by the British duo Anthea Benton and Vaughan Arnell, moving on to other genres including war movies, silent comedy and even surrealism.

An Australian psychedelic rock band and an American independent progressive rock band have used the name " Tin Tin ", and British electronic dance music duo Tin Tin Out was similarly inspired by the character.

* British — Beamish, Sally: Commedia ( 1990 ; mixed quintet ; theater piece without actors, in which Pierrot is portrayed by violin ); Biberian, Gilbert: Variations and Fugue on " Au Clair de la Lune " ( 1967 ; wind quartet ), Pierrot: A Ballet ( 1978 ; guitar duo ); Musgrave, Thea, Pierrot ( 1985 ; for clarinet, violin, and piano ; inspired dance by Jennifer Muller above under # Plays, variety shows, circus, and dance | Plays, variety shows, circus, and dance ); Redgate, Roger: Pierrot on the Stage of Desire ( 1998 ; for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion — known as the " Pierrot ensemble ", comprising the instrumentation of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire below ).

Among the most famous early independent producers are the famed songwriting-production duo Leiber & Stoller, " Wall of Sound " creator Phil Spector and British studio pioneer Joe Meek.

British comedy duo Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French often presented short mockumentaries as extended sketches in their TV show French & Saunders.

French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

" with Lananeeneenoonoo, a mock girl-group created by British female comedy duo French & Saunders, with fellow comediènne Kathy Burke.

* Sandra and Samantha Lawrence The Wee Papa Girl Rappers were a British female rap duo, who came from Acton & lived in one of the tower blocks next to Acton Police Station, the picture on the back cover of their album was taken out side their block.

The British duo Pet Shop Boys released a song called " Girls Don't Cry " ( a bonus track on U. K. issue of I'm with Stupid ) about Teena in 2006.

* Camera Obscura ( electronic duo ), a British synth pop band, who had a minor hit in 1983 with the Destitution EP

The approach of the show, portraying a pathologist as having an active role in the crime investigation, was parodied by British comedic duo French and Saunders as " Witless Silence ".

* The Dust Brothers was also the original name used by the British duo, The Chemical Brothers.

Conversely, other British acts such as Wang Chung, Breathe and Murray Head, as well as the Anglo-Australian duo Air Supply, are one-hit wonders in the UK but not in the US, and the American group 3T, best known in their homeland as being the three sons of Tito Jackson of The Jackson 5, along with other bands such as Blind Melon and Deep Blue Something, are one-hit wonders in the US but not in the UK.

* British electronica duo Lemon Jelly heavily sampled the opening riffs of " Peaches " played in reverse as well as the lines " Yeah, yeah " and " Millions of peaches / Peaches for me / Millions of peaches / Peaches for free " in their song " The Fruity Track ".

Peter and Gordon were a British pop duo, comprising Peter Asher ( b. 1944 ) and Gordon Waller ( 1945-2009 ), who achieved international fame in 1964 with their first single, the million-selling transatlantic No. 1 smash " A World Without Love ".

The duo had several subsequent hits in the so-called British Invasion-era.

The duo were hugely influential in the evolution of electronic music in the 1990s with Mixmag describing them as " the single most influential production team working in British dance music ".

Spooky is a British house / techno duo consisting of Duncan Forbes and Charlie May.

Ernest Wiseman OBE ( 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999 ), known by his stage name Ernie Wise, was an English comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, who became an institution on British television, especially for their Christmas specials.

Riding a wave of publicity and hype, the group's second single, " Rivers of Joy ", became a top ten hit, while third single, " There Must Be an Angel ", a cover version of the 1985 hit by British pop duo Eurythmics, continued the group's high record sales by topping the charts once again in Austria and Germany.

Yazoo ( also known as Yaz in the United States ) is a British synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex.

* Nexus 21, a British techno duo formed in 1989 by Mark Archer and Chris Peat

The Communards were a British pop duo active from 1985 to 1988.

Orbital are a British electronic dance music duo from Sevenoaks, England consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll.

He teamed with Bell to form the group Erasure, and the duo became one of the major selling acts in British music with international hits like " Oh L ' amour ", " Sometimes ", " Chains of Love ", " A Little Respect ", " Chorus ", " Love to Hate You ", " Take a Chance on Me " and " Always ".