Brit awards 2010: blunt edge sharpened by Lady Gaga

You can't pretend to be hip while having one of your awards voted for by the viewers of GMTVAt risk of sounding like a party-pooping pedant, it wasn't actually the 30th anniversary of the Brits at all. The first Brits – or as it was then, the snappily-titled British Record Industry Britannia Centenary Awards – was in 1977, the year of The Clash's eponymous debut album, David Bowie's Heroes, the Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks and Donna Summer's I Feel Love.Outside, punk was ra...

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