Ed Sheeran has continued his winning streak after being named songwriter of the year at the Ivor Novello Awards.

The ceremony at Grosvenor House on London’s Park Lane marked the 60th anniversary of the songwriting and composing honours and saw a glittering list of stars from the music world rewarded for their efforts.

It was the cherry on the cake for 24-year-old Sheeran who has already picked up a string of awards over the last year, including two Brits, as well as setting several records including becoming the most streamed British artist on Spotify.

Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran (Ian West/PA)

Sir Elton John presented him with his award and said of Sheeran: “If he wants to he will have a career as long as mine.”

Sheeran had his own special words of thanks for Elton: “For always sending me really inappropriate emails and videos. I swear to God they’re weird as s***!”

Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne were given the Lifetime Achievement gong, along with former member Bill Ward. Ward pulled out of the band’s reunion album plans in 2012 and said in an interview last year he had “lost a friend” in Osbourne.

Backstage, Ward said it was great to see Tony Iomi and Geezer Butler again and admired he felt “very uncomfortable” knowing they had been on tour without him. He added: “I hope that can change.”

Asked where Ozzy Osbourne was, Iomi said: “I don’t know, I think he’s got a hospital appointment or something.”

Boy George was recognised for his outstanding contribution to British music, while Annie Lennox was presented with the BASCA fellowship.

Boy George
Boy George (Ian West/PA)

Kylie Minogue presented the accolade to Boy George who received a standing ovation. The Aussie pop princess recalled how she first saw him at a Culture Club gig in Australia before she embarked on her own pop career.

George joked what a relief it was to be up for an award with no competition and admitted it meant a lot to him. He said: “You don’t stop being creative just because go past 30 or 50,” to a round of applause.

The Ivors Special Anniversary Award was given to Band Aid founders Bob Geldof and Midge Ure and the Manic Street Preachers James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore and Nicky Wire were presented with the Ivors Inspiration Award.

Accepting the Special Anniversary Award, Midge Ure said: “I agreed with Bob that I could come up first so I could get a word in.”

Midge Ure
Midge Ure (Ian West/PA)

Bob Geldof started his long and heartfelt speech by admitting Band Aid’s Feed The World, “is not a great song.”

He went on: “It was a device to do something that I thought was vital. It seemed to me to die of want in a world of surplus was morally repulsive.

“Midge and I did Band Aid thinking that we’d get a hundred thousand and we’d give it to Oxfam and that would be the end of it, millions later we realised had something else on our hands.”

Dance act Clean Bandit were the only musicians to win two awards, taking home Most Performed Work and Best Contemporary Song for their Number One hit Rather Be.

Clean Bandit
Clean Bandit (Ian West/PA)

Hozier was awarded Best Song Musically and Lyrically for Take Me To Church, and dedicated his award to his mum, who is currently in hospital, while Bombay Bicycle Club scooped the album award for So Long, See You Tomorrow.