Paul Morley on music: the Mercury music prize

It might turn a blind eye to frivolous pop and conceptual sound-art, but the Mercury is diligent in its balancing of everything in betweenAs you may have noticed, on Tuesday this week there will be a new Mercury album of the year, the 19th. Even though I spent much of the early 90s, when the award began, thinking that it was sponsored by Freddie Mercury – which seemed pretty decent and enlightened of him, and which somehow seemed to make sense of the first two winners being Primal Scream and S...

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