They were not left wanting. A virtuoso performance by Adele of her song Someone Like You entranced and enchanted the arena in equal measure before, in perhaps the most telling illustration of the change, folk singer-songwriter Laura Marling accepted the award for best British female solo artist. While her precisely written and haunting album I Speak Because I Can received critical acclaim, it peaked at No 4 in the charts and she has remained under the mainstream radar.
Her victory is just the sort of left-of-centre award that the new Brits chairman David Joseph was looking for when he overhauled the voting academy. But the revamp could not deflect from the crowning of Take That, the peak of an extraordinary 12 months in which the group's most recent album, Progress, became the fastest-selling of the decade with first-day sales of more than ,, the highest since Oasis released Be Here Now in Take That's accompanying tour — the biggest in UK history — sold out in minutes, and promises to be the most spectacular that "Thatters", as their fans are known, have ever seen.
The band split amid accusations, insults and alcoholism in Robbie Williams, ever the bad boy of the group, went on to achieve huge success as a solo act — and has won more Brit awards than any other artist. His debut album, Life Thru a Lens, went straight to No 1, and hits such as Angels lodged themselves firmly in the karaoke canon. But after Williams's career hit the buffers, the newly-reformed four-piece Take That went on to have success without himwith The Ultimate tour in , and The Circus album and tour in After winning the award for best group, Mark Owen tear-jearkingly turned to Williams.
Williams response was fittingly a throw back to the 90s, as he shouted "shabba! Gary Barlow, the main songwriter of the band, recently turned 40, joining Jason Orange who is the same age, and Howard Donald, 42, in the realm of fortysomethings. Williams and Owen are not far behind at 37 and Take That's award — the first time they have been crowned best British band despite three previous nominations — comes eight months after Williams announced he was rejoining the band.
News Datablog. Brit Awards All the winners since Take That won best British group at the Brit Awards last night, but who are the previous winners of the Brits? Data summary Brit Award Winners from Click heading to sort. Download this data Year. We have switched off comments on this old version of the site. To comment on crosswords, please switch over to the new version to comment. Read more All rights reserved. Mumford and Sons - "Sigh No More". Best International Male Solo Artist.
Best International Female Solo Artist. Florence And The Machine - "Lungs". Outstanding Contribution To Music. Arctic Monkeys - "Favourite Worst Nightmare". Green Day - "American Idiot". International Breakthrough Artist. Scissor Sisters - "Scissor Sisters". Brits 25th Anniversary Best Song Award. Darkness - "Permission To Land".
Justin Timberlake - "Justified". Liberty X - "Just A Little'".
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