The Polar Music prize is perhaps the most prestigious in pop and rock and last night, music’s great and the good turned up to pick up their prizes and have a little of their own music fired back in their faces.
The creation of Stig ”Stikkan” Anderson – the man perhaps best known as the ‘fifth member of ABBA’, being their publisher, lyricist and manager – The Polar Music Prize a thoroughly high-brow affair with only the biggest names being awarded prizes (picked by a secretive 11-member board with nominations from the public and the UNESCO-founded International Music Council).
