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Radiohead and Robert Plant nominated for Mercury Prize
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The Hindustan Times
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July 23, 2008
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London, July 23 --English alternative rock band Radiohead and Led Zeppelin frontman, Robert Plant have been nominated for this year's Nationwide Mercury Music Prize.
While Radiohead has been nominated for 'In Rainbows', Plant and bluegrass singer Alison Krauss are nominated for 'Raising Sand', the album on which they collaborated last year.
Music critic Neil McCormick gave his verdict on the Mercury shortlist.
"It marked a change of direction for Plant and was described by The Daily Telegraph as "a haunted, trembling, otherworldly collection of country-flavoured darkness," Daily Telegraph quoted McCormick as saying.
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