Still so sadly missed.
David Bowie’s final album Blackstar has been nominated for a Mercury Music Prize, having been released just days before he died in January.
The prize recognises the best UK or Irish album of the last 12 months and Blackstar will compete with LPs from Radiohead, Laura Mvula, The 1975, Savages and Bat For Lashes.
This is the full list of nominees.
- Hopelessness, Anohni
- The Bride, Bat for Lashes
- Blackstar, David Bowie
- Making Time, Jamie Woon
- Made in the Manor, Kano
- The Dreaming Room, Laura Mvula
- Love & Hate, Michael Kiwanuka
- A Moon Shaped Pool, Radiohead
- Adore Life, Savages
- Konnichiwa, Skepta
- I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It, The 1975
- Channel the Spirits, The Comet Is Coming
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