{"id":260,"date":"2007-02-08T23:14:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-08T23:14:10","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T23:14:10","slug":"grammy-awards-the-worst-of-the-best-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/grammy-awards-the-worst-of-the-best-1\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAMMY Awards the Worst of the Best!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/santanadylan.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"227\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In 15 minutes of extensive research on the subject of GRAMMY Awards won by the greatest of rock&#8217;s greats, I was reminded that <strong>The Beatles<\/strong> won a GRAMMY as recently as 1996, for <strong>&#8220;Free As a Bird&#8221;<\/strong>, a patched together completion of a mid-70s John Lennon home demo, as envisioned by Jeff Lynne and John&#8217;s surviving bandmates. Unlike most of rock&#8217;s undeniable greats, at least The Beatles had been honored for work they &#8211; and history &#8211; can take pride in, including <strong>&#8220;A Hard Day&#8217;s Night&#8221;<\/strong> (Best Performance By A Vocal Group), an Album of the Year for <strong>Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s&#8230;<\/strong>, and an extremely rare, well-deserved Best New Artist in 1964. <\/p>\n<p>Success would continue for the solo Beatles, except for poor Ringo. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Along with a Best Pop Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus for &#8220;Band on the Run&#8221;, Paul McCartney and Wings won a Best Instrumental GRAMMY for the legendary <strong>&#8220;Rockestra Theme&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In 1981, John Lennon would have to settle for splitting an award with <strong>Yoko Ono<\/strong> for <em>Double Fantasy<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>George Harrison took home Album of the Year for <em>The Concert for Bangla Desh<\/em> and also won an instrumental award for a track from his last album. Always the great collaborator of the Fabs, he also took home a piece of GRAMMY love for his work on the first <strong>Travelin&#8217; Wilburys<\/strong> album.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not even a stinking technical award for <strong>The Beach Boys<\/strong>, The Who, Led Zeppelin&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EZsvxqs_Gxw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nTypically, if a legend of rock &#8216;n roll ever wins a GRAMMY, it&#8217;s for work with barely a pulse, made long after the artist&#8217;s artistic peak. Bob Dylan broke his GRAMMY cherry with 1979&#8217;s &#8220;Gotta Serve Somebody&#8221;, a surprisingly controversial song about sublimating one&#8217;s ego in the service of the Lord. In 1997, he would win Album of the Year for 1997&#8217;s <em>Time Out of Mind<\/em>, a nice moment for possibly the worst-sung album to have ever won a GRAMMY. Technically speaking, that is, nerdlingers chomping at the bit to educate me on the man&#8217;s phrasing and <em>gravitas<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the 49-year history of the GRAMMYS, there is one award that cowers beneath all others in shame: The Best Rock Album award <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong> won for their 1994 release <em><strong>Voodoo Lounge<\/strong><\/em>. If ever those whose lives were saved by rock &#8216;n roll needed a good kick in the crotch while looking in the mirror, this was it. There was no joy for the long-overdue victory by the Stones. I wonder if the trophy even made it home with one of them. For shame!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 15 minutes of extensive research on the subject of GRAMMY Awards won by the greatest of rock&#8217;s greats, I was reminded that The Beatles won a GRAMMY as recently as 1996, for &#8220;Free As a Bird&#8221;, a patched together completion of a mid-70s John Lennon home demo, as envisioned by Jeff Lynne and John&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/grammy-awards-the-worst-of-the-best-1\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}