David Bowie receives posthumous award for Blackstar album

David Bowie has been honoured with a posthumous award for his final album Blackstar.

His 25th studio album won the Pop Music category at The South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

Iggy Pop accepted the gong on his late friend’s behalf, with a touching video message recorded from his US home.

Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber received the Outstanding Achievement award at the London ceremony.

Phoebe Waller-bridge, tipped to take over from Peter Capaldi in Doctor Who, won 0 David Bowie has received a posthumous award the comedy category for Fleabag. Harry Potter And The Cursed Child scooped the theatre gong, which was presented by Bond director Sam Mendes. Happy Valley, starring Sarah Lancashire, beat off competition from The Crown to win best TV drama.

Actress Glenn Close, who worked with Lord Lloyd Webber on Sunset Boulevard, saluted the “cosmically witty” composer. “He has written tunes which will stay in people’s hearts forever, generation after generation,” she said. Sir Cameron Mackintosh called his former collaborator “the biggest catalyst in the musical world in my lifetime”, and paid tribute to his ability to make “a great piece of theatre” out of the “most unlikely subject”. “Modern musical theatre” would not be the same if his friend “hadn’t been the force of nature that he is”, he said.