Originally Posted by robo2:
“blur were the best british band of the 90's and have achieved more critiical success in their career than adele has so far, the biggest award in the brits is outstanding contribution and so to fit every thing in they had to cut adele off. damon albarn did witter on during his speech though, you should also bear in mind that the 20 million album selling gorillaz ( which albarn co-created, wrote all the songs for and sang lead vocals)were probably the biggest british success of the noughties”
You missed the bit 'in your opinion'.
As for Adele, at least she made it to the podium. Back in 1988 when the 'best single' was the main award of the night, Rick Astley was cut off on his way to the stage when the Who started to perform because of an overrun.