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Motown legend Stevie Wonder (pictured) acquainted himself with the UK's latest wonder Craig David last Thursday after becoming only the third recipient after Hal David and Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller of the Ivor Novello Awards' special international prize. Wonder, who gave an impromptu, unaccompanied performance at the end of his acceptance speech at the ceremony at London's Grosvenor House Hotel, recalled his first visit to the UK back in the Sixties with Motown founder Berry Gordy. "I remember my first time doing Top Of The Pops and Thank Your Lucky Stars. I've got so many memories that I will never ever stop talking about them," he said. Wonder's award was one of two rarely-given accolades made at the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters-organised event with John Barry receiving the academy fellowship. Meanwhile, Windswept Music's Craig David and Warner/Chappell's Mark Hill each won three awards, including being named ...