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Music History Events: Awards and Honors

October 23, 2003 Mexican rap-rock band Molotov tops the second annual MTV Video Music Awards Latin America with four wins, including Video of the Year and Best Group.

October 12, 2003 Rapper 50 Cent takes home all five trophies for which he is nominated at the World Music Awards, held in Monaco. Russian teen duo t.A.T.u. picks up three awards, while Norah Jones and Eminem win two.

October 5, 2003 Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice collects the third annual Shortlist Music Prize, climaxing a four-and-a-half hour concert, featuring Rice and seven of the nine nominees at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. Styled as a US equivalent to Britain's Mercury Prize, the Shortlist Prize honors cutting-edge performers whose latest albums have sold less than 500,000 copies at the time of their nomination.

October 2, 2003 Despite trashing Radiohead's latest album Hail to the Thief, Q magazine gives them the award for Best Act In The World Today for the third consecutive year at their annual Q Awards in London. The band doesn't appear.

October 2, 2003 The Del McCoury Band wins top honors at the 14th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards in Louisville, Kentucky. The group takes home the Entertainer of the Year award for the eighth time. Band members Mike Bub and Jason Carter win in the instrumentalist categories for Bassist and Fiddler of the Year, respectively.

September 24, 2003 Gordon Lightfoot is inducted into the Canadian Songwriter Hall of Fame.

September 19, 2003 A week after his death at the age of 71, country legend Johnny Cash is bestowed with artist, song and album of the year awards at the Americana Music Awards ceremony in Nashville. Cash wins Song of the Year for his cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" and Album of the Year for American IV: The Man Comes Around, the fourth in a series produced by Rick Rubin.

August 16, 2003 The USPS unveils a new commemorative postage stamp of recently deceased composer Henry Mancini, famous for the Pink Panther theme and several other film works.

August 7, 2003 The Osmonds are awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

July 26, 2003 Vegas mainstay Tom Jones in inducted into the Gaming Hall Of Fame, along with Harrah's exec Phil Satre.

July 23, 2003 The US National Registry of Historic Places declares Memphis, Tennessee's Sun Studios, at 706 Union Avenue, a historic landmark.

June 20, 2003 For his 54th birthday, Lionel Richie receives a special gift: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. According to Richie, the star's location on Hollywood Blvd. isn't far from the Holiday Inn where The Commodores stayed on their first trip to LA while recording their debut album.

June 14, 2003 Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers is awarded a Member of the British Empire medal by Queen Elizabeth in London.

June 12, 2003 Little Richard, Van Morrison, Queen, and Phil Collins are inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

May 16, 2003 Hoboken, New Jersey, names its post office after its favorite son, Frank Sinatra.

April 18, 2003 Etta James gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

March 10, 2003 The Righteous Brothers, AC/DC, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, The Clash, The Police, and Floyd Cramer are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York City.

January 25, 2003 Clarence Carter and Eddie Floyd are inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.

November 8, 2002 David Gilmour, longtime guitarist for Pink Floyd, is made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.

October 2, 2002 At the 2002 Jammy Awards, Trey Anastasio picks up two awards; his band Phish wins one.

October 1, 2002 Ms. Dynamite is the big winner at the UK Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards, where she is named Best Newcomer and UK Act of the Year, and her song "It Takes More" wins Best Single. She fades fast, releasing only one more album in the '00s.

September 22, 2002 Sting receives an Emmy for his A&E documentary Sting in Tuscany: All This Time. He dedicates his award to his "dear late friend Timothy White."

July 19, 2002 It's "Solomon Burke Day" in Philadelphia in honor of their native singer.

April 11, 2002 Aretha Franklin and seven other Motown stars are honored with street names in Detroit's new low-income housing project.

April 10, 2002 South Carolina Governor James Hodges declares James Brown the state's "Godfather Of Soul."

March 18, 2002 Talking Heads play live for the first time since 1984 when they are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, The Ramones, Brenda Lee, Gene Pitney and Isaac Hayes.More

February 22, 2002 Little Richard gets the NAACP Image Award. The flamboyant singer put his efforts into preaching in his later years.

January 16, 2002 A section of Interstate 80 in California is renamed the "Sonny Bono Memorial Freeway."

December 15, 2001 Joe Walsh receives an honorary doctorate of music from Kent State University.

December 12, 2001 The state of Nevada declares Frank Sinatra Day in honor of the the crooner.