Photos From The Mercury Music Award Ceremony, Including Winners Elbow, Adele, Estelle, Laura Marling, Alex Turner, Miles Kane

Elbow have won the Mercury Music Prize for best album of the last twelve months. The group won the £20,000 prize last night for their fourth album, The Seldom Seen Kid. They beat Estelle, Adele, Radiohead, Laura Marling, bookies' favourite Burial, The Last Shadow Puppets and Rachel Unthank and the Winterset to the prestigious prize. Elbow frontman Guy Garvey dedicated the award to the late 'seldom seen kid' of the title, he said:

"Thank you very much. I'd like to thank all the players we've been with since day one, including Phil Chadwick, our manager. This is the best thing that's ever happened to us. We'd like to dedicate this award to Brian Clancy, one of the greatest men who ever lived. Thank you very much and have a top evening!"

To see more pictures from the ceremony, as well as the shortlist — just read more.

Adele - 19
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Burial - Untrue
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Estelle – Shine
Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Portico Quartet - Knee Deep In The North Sea
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset - The Bairns
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement

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