Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mercury prize almost always produces surprises – among them, Gomez not The Verve in 1998, and English Teacher not Charli XCX ...

Singer Sam Fender has dismissed comparisons between him and Bruce Springsteen as “stupid”. The singer was asked how he felt to be mentioned in the same breath as the Boss as he arrived at the premiere ...

The Mercury prize almost always produces surprises – among them, Gomez not The Verve in 1998, and English Teacher not Charli XCX in 2024 – but perhaps the biggest surprise is that the prize has ...