For 50 years the Ivor Novello Awards have been celebrating the cream of songwriting and composing at their prestigious annual ceremony. To mark this achievement, the academy approached Evening Standard readers and Radio 2 listeners to vote for their favourite songs from each of the past five decades. The votes are in and we are very proud to announce that ‘Angels’, written by Robbie & Guy Chambers, has won the award for the 1995-2004 category. The Academy Chairman, David Ferguson, said “The 25 songs on the original shortlist were chosen because they had a profound influence of British songwriting” Winners of the 50th Ivor Novello Awards will be officially announced at a ceremony in London on Thursday 26th May. The ‘Songs of the Decade’ are: 1955-1964 ?You Really Got Me – written by Ray Davies, ?performed by The Kinks? 1965-1974 ?Space Oddity – written by David Bowie,?performed by David Bowie? 1975-1984 ?Bohemian Rhapsody – written by Freddie Mercury, performed by Queen? 1985-1994 ?West End Girls – written by Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe, performed by The Pet Shop Boys? 1995-2004 ?Angels – written by Robbie Williams & Guy Chambers, performed by Robbie Williams?

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