The Last Dinner Party have been named the winner of the BBC’s Sound of 2024 poll.The London-based indie band and NME 100 alumni, made up of Abigail Morris, Lizzie Mayland, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies and Aurora Nishevci, were chosen as winners by a panel of over 140 music industry experts and artists.The band beat out Olivia Dean, who came second, and Peggy Gou, Tyla and Elmiene, who rounded out the top five spots.The achievement follows a massive breakout year for the band, who featured on NME’s The Cover in December.In that interview, they opened up about their meteoric rise, saying, “It can feel a bit like going in a car really fast and not being in charge of the steering wheel. We’re trying to ignore the words ‘hype’ and ‘buzzy band’ and just focus on what grounds us: playing, writing and rehearsing our music.”Speaking about topping the list, the band said: “We are overjoyed to have won BBC Radio 1’s Sound Of Award for 2024! We predict amazing things happening in music this year and it is truly an honour to even be a part of it.“BBC Radio has championed us and so many other young artists from the start of their careers, we still can’t believe it every time we hear one of our songs being played.
Paula Radcliffe: 'My last London Marathon was emotional - my body was falling apart but I never wanted it to end'
17.12.2023 - 09:49 / ok.co.uk
As the BBC Sports Personality of the Year celebrates its 70th anniversary this week, OK! chats exclusively to one of its most iconic winners - long-distance runner Paula Radcliffe. Paula, 49, won the trophy back in 2002, becoming the first woman to do so in over a decade, and beating a certain footballing golden boy.
She was especially grateful for the win, she tells us, because it was voted for by members of the public “filling in a coupon and sending it in”, rather than simply clicking a button. “I grew up watching Sports Personality every year, it was a bit like the London Marathon, we’d all sit down at home and watch it,” she remembers.
“The fact people went to so much trouble to vote, it really meant a lot, especially given who I was up against that year.” Paula’s win left fellow nominee David Beckham empty-handed - a fact her teenage daughter was stunned to recently learn “We were actually watching the Beckham documentary recently and I said, ‘he was second when I won it’, she was like, ‘no!?.” Throughout her incredible professional career - which included several Commonwealth, European and World Championship titles, as well a plethora of wins at the London Marathon. Her career took her - and those watching and supporting her - on something of an emotional rollercoaster.
She dominated the professional marathon circuit throughout the noughties, after achieving massive success in cross country and 5,000 and 10,000m events in the nineties. 2002 was also the year she was awarded her MBE and won her first London Marathon, sealing her fate as one of the country’s most successful - and watched - athletes of all time.
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