Lydon 'honoured' by BMI Award

John Lydon at Glastonbury 2013

PiL frontman and former Sex Pistol John Lydon has been honoured with an award at the BMI Awards in London and said he was 'proud' to accept the honour saying "It means fellow songwriters have really bothered to stand up and taken notice of what I do, and for me that's a very, very good and important thing." He was awarded the BMI Icon Award for his “unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers” at the 2013 BMI London Awards held October 15, 2013, at London’s Dorchester Hotel. Previous BMI Icon honorees include Queen, Ray Davies, Steve Winwood, Van Morrison, Donovan, Don Black and Bryan Ferry.

The Dance Award was presented to Dutch songwriter Giorgio Tuinfort  for the David Guetta-performed worldwide smash “Titanium.” and  Winning Song of the Year for the most-performed song in the BMI catalogue on U.S. radio and television over the past twelve months were Sweden’s Jörgen Elofsson and U.S.  writing partner Ali Tamposi for penning the global hit “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You),” performed by Kelly Clarkson. 

BMI also presented A-ha with a BMI Million-Air Award to honour the four million combined radio performances of their hit song "Take On Me.” Pop Awards were presented to Ellie Goulding for her acclaimed hit song “Lights” and Snow Patrol for “Called Out In The Dark,” from their Fallen Empires album. Other honorees included Ed Sheeran  for “The A-Team,” Adele ) for “Rumour Has It” and ”Skyfall,” Example  for penning the Wanted’s pop hit “Chasing the Sun,” Wayne Hector for the Wanted’s No. 1 single “Glad You Came,” Jimbo Barry for “Hall Of Fame,” performed by the Script feat. will.i.am, Jamie Scott  for writing the song “Free” performed by Graffiti6, and Mark Hadfield for Ne-Yo’s “Let Me Love You.”