Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley believes the Brits are wrong to scrap the awards’ male and female categories.
“It’s PC gone too far,” says the singer.
They have been combined into one Artist of the Year gong at February’s do after acts including non-binary singer Sam Smith criticised it for not being inclusive.
But like Brian May, Tony reckons female acts will struggle - as the ceremony has previously been criticised for not representing women.
Tony, who previously fronted Brit award winners Spandau, reckons that’s unfair on Ed Sheeran and Adele - who will go head to head.
“Both of them should get an award - they’ve sold a lot of records,” reasons Tony.
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“The trouble is, there’s not so many awards. If they have male and female you get lots of winners. If you combine them into one there’s not the amount of awards you need.”
Tony, speaking at the TRIC Christmas lunch in London yesterday, believes female artists could be penalised as a result – after Little Mix referenced the industry’s sexism and misogyny when they became the first girl group to receive the Best Group award.
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