Gary Kemp accepts his BMI Icon Award

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Gary Kemp's acceptance speech after receiving his Icon Award at the 2023 BMI London Awards. Full story at https://lucire.com/insider/20231003/gary-kemp-p2j-honoured-at-2023-bmi-london-awards/

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00:00 Thank you so much. Thank you to BMI for this

00:02 I've been suffering from imposter syndrome for the last few weeks after I heard about it

00:07 You never you always think someone's gonna come along and say sorry. There's been a terrible mistake

00:11 You're not the one but no, it's it's a it's a great honor

00:17 I'm gonna sing a song

00:20 Yeah

00:22 I'm gonna sing a song and I wrote this for one of the greatest singers in the world Tony Hadley and

00:29 so

00:30 Please forgive me doing my interpretation

00:33 It was kind of the version that I would have shown my brother Martin when I called him in, you know

00:38 We were living at home with our mom and dad and I said mom I've got a song

00:41 I've got a song that he would come in and I play it to him, you know, and he would give me the thumbs up or down

00:46 but so also Martin to thank you and

00:50 And to thank Steve Norman and John Keble because without span now ballet, I won't be here either. So thank you

00:58 [APPLAUSE]

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