STEVE HARNELL
This year‘s Classic Pop Reader Awards have been the most successful in the magazine‘s history with thousands of you getting involved to vote in a range of hotly-contested categories. Many of the awards went right down to the wire with only one runaway winner emerging - take a bow Debbie Harry for her acclaimed autobiography Face It, which romped home with the best book prize. Harry received almost half the overall vote in her category and polled 25 per cent more than her nearest rival, the late Terry O‘Neill and his collection of David Bowie photographs.
However, there was less than two per cent between first and second place in the album of the year poll and the equally keenly-fought best reissue prize found the top three within a hair‘s breadth of each other.