Mojo Awards Explained

Mojo Awards
Awarded For:	Excellence in music
Presenter:	Mojo
Country:	United Kingdom
Year:	2004
Year2:	2010
Website:	http://blog.mojo4music.com/honours2008/

The Mojo Awards (or Mojo Honours Lists) was an awards ceremony that began in 2004 and ended in 2009 by Mojo, a popular music magazine published monthly by Bauer in the United Kingdom.^[1] The awards featured a mixture of readers' and critics' awards.

2010 Honourees

List of 2010 Mojo Awards Winners:^[2]

• Best Breakthrough Act: The Low Anthem
  • The Jim Jones Revue
  • John Grant
  • Florence and the Machine
  • Mumford & Sons
• Best Album: Richard Hawley, Truelove's Gutter
  • Kasabian, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
  • Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me
  • Florence and the Machine, Lungs
  • Paul Weller, Wake Up the Nation
• Song of the Year: Kasabian, Fire
  • Richard Hawley, "Open Up Your Door"
  • Florence and the Machine, "You've Got the Love"
  • Arctic Monkeys, "Crying Lightning"
  • Rage Against the Machine, "Killing in the Name"
• Best Live Act: Midlake
  • Kasabian
  • Florence and the Machine
  • Rufus Wainwright
  • Arctic Monkeys
• Best Compilation Award: The Future Sound of London

Achievement Award

• Catalogue Release of the Year – The Beatles Remastered
• Mojo Medal – Mute's Daniel Miller
• Classic Songwriter – Roy Wood
• Hall of Fame – Jimmy Page
• Les Paul Award – Richard Thompson
• Lifetime Achievement Award – Jean-Michel Jarre
• Inspiration Award – The Teardrop Explodes
• Best Classic Album Award – The Stone Roses
• Vision Award – Oil City Confidential
• Maverick Award – Hawkwind
• Hero Award – Marc Almond
• Icon Award – Duane Eddy
• Outstanding Contribution to Music Award – Sigur Rós
• Roots Award – Kate & Anna McGarrigle

2009 Honourees

List of 2009 Mojo Awards Winners:^[3]

• Best Breakthrough Act: White Lies
  • Gallows
  • Eli "Paperboy" Reed
  • School of Seven Bells
  • Glasvegas
• Best Album: Paul Weller, 22 Dreams
  • Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
  • Kings of Leon, Only by the Night
  • Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid
  • PJ Harvey & John Parish, A Woman a Man Walked By
• Best Live Act: Fleet Foxes
  • Paul Weller
  • Leonard Cohen
  • Seasick Steve
  • Radiohead
• Song of the Year: Elbow, "One Day Like This"
  • Fleet Foxes, "White Winter Hymnal"
  • Kings of Leon, "Sex on Fire"
  • Franz Ferdinand, "Ulysses"
  • Animal Collective, "My Girls"
• Best Compilation Award: Take Me to the River: A Southern Soul Story 1961–1977

Achievement Award

• Inspiration Award – Blur
• Best Classic Album Award – The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle
• Vision Award – Joy Division
• Maverick Award – Manic Street Preachers
• Hero Award – The Pretty Things
• Icon Award – Phil Lynott
• Outstanding Contribution to Music Award – Joe Brown
• Roots Award – Topic Records
• Catalogue Release of the Year – Miles Davis
• Mojo Medal – Chris Blackwell/Island Records
• Classic Songwriter – Johnny Marr
• Hall of Fame – Mott the Hoople
• Les Paul Award – Billy Gibbons
• Lifetime Achievement Award – Yoko Ono

2008 Honourees

List of 2008 Mojo Awards winners:^[4]

• Song of the Year – "Mercy" by Duffy
• Best Live Act – Led Zeppelin
• Best Breakthrough Act – The Last Shadow Puppets
• Best Album Award – Dig, Lazarus, Dig! (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds)

• Outstanding Contribution to Music – Paul Weller
• Icon Award – Sex Pistols
• Classic Songwriter – Neil Diamond
• Hero Award – Motörhead
• Hall of Fame – The Specials
• Lifetime Achievement Award – Genesis
• Special Award – Judy Collins
• Legend Award – Irma Thomas
• Classic Album Award – My Bloody Valentine for Loveless
• Inspiration Award – John Fogerty
• Roots Award – Toots Hibbert
• Les Paul Award – John Martyn
• Maverick Award – Mark E. Smith
• Vision Award – Julien Temple for The Future is Unwritten
• Compilation of the Year – Juno Original Soundtrack
• Catalogue Release of the Year – Pillows & Prayers

2007 Honourees

List of 2007 Mojo Awards winners:^[5]

• Album of the Year – The Good, the Bad & the Queen
• Song of the Year – "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse
• Best Live Act – Arcade Fire
• Breakthrough Act – Seasick Steve

• Catalogue Release – The Complete Motown Singles: Volume 6
• Classic Album Award – Exodus by Bob Marley
• Compilation – White Bicycles - Making Music in the 1960s
• Cult Hero – The Only Ones
• Hall of Fame Award – The Doors
• Hero Award – Alice Cooper
• Icon Award – Ozzy Osbourne
• Innovation in Sound Award – Suicide
• Inspiration Award – Björk
• Legend Award – Ike Turner
• Les Paul Award – Peter Green
• Lifetime Achievement Award – The Stooges
• Maverick Award – Echo & the Bunnymen
• The Mojo Medal – Jac Holzman of Elektra Records
• Outstanding Contribution – Joy Division
• Vision Award – Slade in Flame

2006 Honourees

List of 2006 Mojo Awards winners:^[6]

• Best New Act – Corinne Bailey Rae
• Catalogue Release – Johnny Cash – The Legend
• Classic Album Award – Tago Mago by Can
• Hall of Fame Award – Elton John
• Hero Award – Prince Buster
• Icon Award – Scott Walker
• Inspiration Award – Buzzcocks
• Les Paul Award – Brian May

• Lifetime Achievement Award – David Gilmour
• Maverick Award – The Jesus & Mary Chain
• The Mojo Medal – Jools Holland
• Merit Award – Bert Jansch
• Roots Award – Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham
• Songwriter Award – Chrissie Hynde
• Vision Award – Flaming Lips – Fearless Freaks

2005 Honourees

List of 2005 Mojo Awards winners:^[7]

• Best New Act – The Magic Numbers
• Catalogue Release – The Fall: Complete Peel Sessions
• Classic Album Award – Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash (The Pogues)
• Hall of Fame Award – Madness
• Hero Award – Roy Harper
• Icon Award – Siouxsie Sioux
• Image Award – Jim Marshall
• Inspiration Award – Gang of Four

• Legend Award – Dr. John
• Les Paul Award – Jeff Beck
• Lifetime Achievement Award – Robert Wyatt
• Maverick Award – Steve Earle
• The Mojo Medal – Chess Records
• Roots Award – Chris Hillman
• Songwriter Award – Paul Weller
• Vision Award – Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues

2004 Honourees

List of 2004 Mojo Awards winners:^[8]

• Catalogue Release – Muzik City, The Trojan Records Story
• Classic Album Award – Marquee Moon by Television
• Hall of Fame Award – Arthur Lee
• Hero Award – Roger McGuinn
• Icon Award – Morrissey
• Image Award – Bob Gruen
• Inspiration Award – The Clash
• Lifetime Achievement Award – James Brown

• Maestro Award – Jimmy Page
• Maverick Award – Red Hot Chili Peppers
• The Mojo Medal – Geoff Travis of Rough Trade Records
• Mondial Award – Sting
• Songwriter Award – Ray Davies
• Special Award – The Shadows
• Vision Award – Led Zeppelin DVD

External links

• Mojo magazine official site

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2008-12-08 . A Brief History Of The Mojo Honours List . Mojo / Bauer . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080406170512/http://blog.mojo4music.com/honours2008/history.shtml . 2008-04-06 .
2. Web site: 2009-06-11. The Mojo Honours List 2010. Mojo. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100613232447/http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2010/06/mojo_honours_list_2010_winners.html. 2010-06-13.
3. Web site: 2009-06-11. The Mojo Honours List 2009. Mojo. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120225132356/http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2009/06/mojo_honours_list_09_the_winne.html. 2012-02-25.
4. Web site: 2008-12-08. Mojo Award Winners. BBC. 2008-06-16.
5. Web site: 2008-12-08 . The Mojo Honours List 2007 . https://archive.today/20120709023047/http://blog.mojo4music.com/honours2008/history2007.shtml . dead . 2012-07-09 . Mojo .
6. Web site: 2008-12-08 . The Mojo Honours List 2006 . https://archive.today/20120713211037/http://blog.mojo4music.com/honours2008/history2006.shtml . dead . 2012-07-13 . Mojo .
7. Web site: 2008-12-08 . The Mojo Honours List 2005 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090615201929/http://blog.mojo4music.com/honours2008/history2005.shtml . dead . 2009-06-15 . Mojo .
8. Web site: 2008-12-08 . The Mojo Honours List 2004 . Mojo . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081218104825/http://blog.mojo4music.com/honours2008/history2004.shtml . 2008-12-18 .