Former LED ZEPPELIN Guitarist To Award POLAR MUSIC PRIZE To B.B. KING

May 5, 2004

Former LED ZEPPELIN guitarist Jimmy Page and conductor Elgar Howarth will award the 2004 Polar Music Prize to bluesman B.B. King and composer Gyoergy Ligeti, according to the Associated Press.

Page will read the prize citation for King and Howarth will do the same for Ligeti at the May 24 prize ceremony. King Carl XVI Gustaf will hand out the award to both winners.

The award was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, manager of Swedish pop group ABBA, through a donation to The Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

King and Ligeti will each receive $130,887.

The prize is typically split between pop artists and classical musicians. Previous winners include Paul McCartney, Isaac Stern, Bruce Springsteen, Pierre Boulez and Quincy Jones.

For more information, visit www.polarmusicprize.se.

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