Cosgrove on prize shortlist

SCOTTISH broadcaster and writer Stuart Cosgrove has been nominated for the Penderyn Prize, an award for books about music.

It is organised by Richard Thomas, founder of the Laugharne Weekend Festival, and is the only Uk-based book prize specifically for international music titles including history, theory, biography, autobiography.

The winner will be announced at the Laugharne Weekend Festival on April 8, with the prize being a cheque for £1000, and a bottle of Penderyn whisky.

Mr Cosgrove has been nominated for his book Memphis 68: The Tragedy Of Southern Soul.

Other books on the shortlist are Roots, Radicals And Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg;

Some Fantastic Place: My Life In And Out Of Squeeze by Chris Difford; First Time Ever: A Memoir by Peggy Seeger, Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times Of Jann Wenner And Rolling Stone Magazine by

Joe Hagan; Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti; and Uncommon People: The

Rise And Fall of the Rock

Stars 1955-1994 by David Hepworth. www.thelaugharneweekend.