In a ceremony dominated by the absent Amy Winehouse, the 50th Annual Grammy Awards also heralded wins for the White Stripes, Foo Fighters, Slayer and Robert Plant.
Winehouse received nods for Pop Vocal Album, Female Pop Vocal Performance and – weirdly given her two-album status – Best New Artist. Having been denied a visa to enter the USA, the singer got to watch the ceremony from the less boozy environs of rehab. Clutching her mother, Amy thanked her parents from a seemingly London studio looking semi-not really with it.
Best Alternative Music Album went to the White Stripes for Icky Thump, while the Foos took out Hard Rock Performance. Elsewhere, Slayer won Metal Performance, and Pop Collaboration With Vocals went to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’s Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On).
Having delivered a knockout show at Melbourne’s Good Vibrations festival, Kanye West bypassed Brisbane to be back in America for the ceremony. He took the stage at LA’s Staples Centre for a jet lag-defying run-through of Hey Mama and Stronger, the latter of which won Best Rap Solo Performance.
Here’s an abridged list of the winners from the 50th Grammy Awards. Sorry to anyone waiting to hear the winner of Spoken Word Album for Children…
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Mark Ronson
Pop Vocal Album: “Back to Black,” Amy Winehouse
Female Pop Vocal Performance: “Rehab,” Amy Winehouse
Male Pop Vocal Performance: “What Goes Around…Comes Around,” Justin Timberlake
Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: “Makes Me Wonder,” Maroon 5
Pop Collaboration With Vocals: “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On),” Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Pop Instrumental Album: “The Mix-Up,” Beastie Boys
Pop Instrumental Performance: “One Week Last Summer,” Joni Mitchell
Alternative Music Album: “Icky Thump,” The White Stripes
Rock Song: “Radio Nowhere,” Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)
Solo Rock Vocal Performance: “Radio Nowhere,” Bruce Springsteen
Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: “Icky Thump,” The White Stripes
Hard Rock Performance: “The Pretender,” Foo Fighters
Rap Solo Performance: “Stronger,” Kanye West
Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: “Southside,” Common, featuring Kanye West
Rap Song: “Good Life,” Aldrin Davis, Mike Dean, Faheem Najm & Kanye West, songwriters (J. Ingram & Q. Jones, songwriters) (Kanye West Featuring T-Pain)
Bluegrass Album: “The Bluegrass Diaries,” Jim Lauderdale
Traditional Blues Album: “Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas,” Henry James
Contemporary Blues Album: “The Road to Escondido,” JJ Cale & Eric Clapton
Contemporary Jazz Album: “River: The Joni Letters,” Herbie Hancock
Latin Jazz Album: “Funk Tango,” Paquito D’Rivera Quintet
Urban/Alternative Performance: “Daydreamin’,” Lupe Fiasco, featuring Jill Scott
Dance Recording: “LoveStoned/I Think She Knows,” Justin Timberlake, Nate (Danja) Hills, Timbaland & Justin Timberlake, producers; Jimmy Douglass & Timbaland, mixers
Electronic/Dance Album: “We Are the Night,” The Chemical Brothers
Reggae: “Mind Control,” Stephen Marley
Winehouse received nods for Pop Vocal Album, Female Pop Vocal Performance and – weirdly given her two-album status – Best New Artist. Having been denied a visa to enter the USA, the singer got to watch the ceremony from the less boozy environs of rehab. Clutching her mother, Amy thanked her parents from a seemingly London studio looking semi-not really with it.
Best Alternative Music Album went to the White Stripes for Icky Thump, while the Foos took out Hard Rock Performance. Elsewhere, Slayer won Metal Performance, and Pop Collaboration With Vocals went to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’s Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On).
Having delivered a knockout show at Melbourne’s Good Vibrations festival, Kanye West bypassed Brisbane to be back in America for the ceremony. He took the stage at LA’s Staples Centre for a jet lag-defying run-through of Hey Mama and Stronger, the latter of which won Best Rap Solo Performance.
Here’s an abridged list of the winners from the 50th Grammy Awards. Sorry to anyone waiting to hear the winner of Spoken Word Album for Children…
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Mark Ronson
Pop Vocal Album: “Back to Black,” Amy Winehouse
Female Pop Vocal Performance: “Rehab,” Amy Winehouse
Male Pop Vocal Performance: “What Goes Around…Comes Around,” Justin Timberlake
Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: “Makes Me Wonder,” Maroon 5
Pop Collaboration With Vocals: “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On),” Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Pop Instrumental Album: “The Mix-Up,” Beastie Boys
Pop Instrumental Performance: “One Week Last Summer,” Joni Mitchell
Alternative Music Album: “Icky Thump,” The White Stripes
Rock Song: “Radio Nowhere,” Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)
Solo Rock Vocal Performance: “Radio Nowhere,” Bruce Springsteen
Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: “Icky Thump,” The White Stripes
Hard Rock Performance: “The Pretender,” Foo Fighters
Rap Solo Performance: “Stronger,” Kanye West
Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: “Southside,” Common, featuring Kanye West
Rap Song: “Good Life,” Aldrin Davis, Mike Dean, Faheem Najm & Kanye West, songwriters (J. Ingram & Q. Jones, songwriters) (Kanye West Featuring T-Pain)
Bluegrass Album: “The Bluegrass Diaries,” Jim Lauderdale
Traditional Blues Album: “Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas,” Henry James
Contemporary Blues Album: “The Road to Escondido,” JJ Cale & Eric Clapton
Contemporary Jazz Album: “River: The Joni Letters,” Herbie Hancock
Latin Jazz Album: “Funk Tango,” Paquito D’Rivera Quintet
Urban/Alternative Performance: “Daydreamin’,” Lupe Fiasco, featuring Jill Scott
Dance Recording: “LoveStoned/I Think She Knows,” Justin Timberlake, Nate (Danja) Hills, Timbaland & Justin Timberlake, producers; Jimmy Douglass & Timbaland, mixers
Electronic/Dance Album: “We Are the Night,” The Chemical Brothers
Reggae: “Mind Control,” Stephen Marley
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