Tony Bennett receives pop music prize

Tony Bennett has been honoured with this year’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The Library of Congress announced Tuesday Bennett, 90, is the recipient of the lifetime achievement award. The prize was created by Congress to honour singers and songwriters who entertain, inform and inspire. Bennett has been a fixture on the pop charts for seven decades, spanning from his in the early 1950s to his 2014 collaboration with Lady Gaga. His signature song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” received two Grammy awards. To receive an award named for George and Ira Gershwin “is one of the greatest thrills” of his career, he says.