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Brit Awards 2000

British music awards ceremony

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ3632235
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Brit Awards 2000 was the 20th edition of the Brit Awards, an annual pop music awards ceremony in the United Kingdom. They are run by the British Phonographic Industry and took place on 3 March 2000 at Earls Court in London.

Performances

Winners and nominees

List of British Newcomer shortlist

Multiple nominations and awards

Notable moments

Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher

Around the time of his departure from Take That, Robbie Williams had begun a friendship with the Gallagher brothers from Oasis at the Glastonbury Festival. However, it was short-lived and the two parties regularly traded insults in the press with Noel Gallagher referring to Williams as "the fat dancer from Take That". Having won Best British Single and Best Video for "She's the One", Williams challenged Liam Gallagher to a televised fight, saying: "So, anybody like to see me fight Liam? Would you pay to come and see it? Liam, a hundred grand of your money and a hundred grand of my money. We'll get in a ring and we'll have a fight and you can all watch it on TV, what d'you think about that?". Liam Gallagher was not in the country at the time.

Ronnie Wood and Brandon Block

Dance DJ Brandon Block was told by his friends that he had won an award and had been summoned to the stage to collect it.

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