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The Rolling Stones and David Bowie have both received multiple nominations for this year’s NME Awards.

The Rolling Stones have been nominated in four categories: Best Live Band, Best Music Film (for Crossfire Hurricane), Best Book (for The Rolling Stones: 50), and Music Moment of the Year (for their 50 & Counting performances at London’s O2 Arena). Neil Young’s “Waging Heavy Peace” is among the other books nominated in the Best Book category.

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Kate Bush has been awarded a CBE for services to music in the New Year Honours list. Bush says:

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced that its 2013 inductees will be: Rush, Heart, Randy Newman, Public Enemy, Donna Summer and Albert King.

Veteran record executive, Lou Adler, and producer-arranger-composer-conductor, Quincy Jones, will receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers.

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Nominations for the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced last night on a CBS television special that aired live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Leading the nominations, with six each, were The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, Fun., Jay-Z, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, and Kanye West. The Black Keys, Chick Corea and Miguel each received five nominations.

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Led Zeppelin, Buddy Guy, ballerina Natalia Makarova, David Letterman, and Dustin Hoffman were this year’s recipients of Kennedy Center Honors in Washington D.C. on Sunday.

President Obama led tributes to the recipients at a special afternoon reception at the East Room of the White House, referring to Buddy Guy as one of the “last guardians of the great American blues” and joking that “a generation of young people survived teenage angst with a pair of headphones and a Zeppelin album, and a generation of parents wondered what all that noise was about.”

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