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Tuesday, 23 April, 2002, 12:10 GMT 13:10 UK
Gray and Healy battle for Ivors
![]() Gray had one of the UK's best-selling albums of 2001
Ivor Novello award winners David Gray and Travis's Fran Healy will be battling it out for more honours at the music industry's prestigious awards ceremony on 23 May.
David Gray's Sail Away is nominated for the best song best song musically and lyrically - a category he won last year - alongside Fran Healy's Side and U2's Walk On.
The Ivor Novello awards nominees are selected for their songwriting skills by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. Awards are given in categories which include best song musically and lyrically, best contemporary song and best original music for TV.
Click here to see the Ivor nominations in full
Dido's single Thank You, which was sampled by Eminem, was written by the singer with Paul Herman and is in the running for best contemporary song.
It will compete with Shining Light, written for Ash by Tim Wheeler, and Clint Eastwood, written by Gorillaz members Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett and Teren Delvon Jones.
Music for two BBC programmes, The Blue Planet, scored by George Fenton and Wild Africa by Chris Gunning, are in the running for best TV score.
Last year Craig David won three awards and David Gray won in the best song musically and lyrically for his single Babylon. Other awards, including that for outstanding song collection, international achievement and songwriter of the year, will be presented on the night. The 47th Ivor Novello Awards, sponsored by the Performing Right Society, will be held at the Grosvenor House hotel in London's Park Lane. The Ivor Novello nominations 2002 (songwriters in brackets) |
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