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Grammys too late for some
20/12/2006 11:48 - (SA)
Los Angeles - Influential rock bands The
Doors and the Grateful Dead will receive lifetime achievement
Grammy Awards next year, along with jazz saxophone player
Ornette Coleman and the late opera singer Maria Callas,
organisers said on Tuesday.
Other honorees include folk singer Joan Baez, soul
musicians Booker T. & the MG's, and late country music icon Bob
Wills. The statuettes will be handed out during a ceremony
leading up to the main Grammy Awards, which take place in Los
Angeles on February 11.
The honourary awards generally allow organisers of the music
industry's most prestigious event to give belated recognition
to acts who were snubbed during their heyday. The only act to
win a competitive Grammy was Booker T. & the MG's, in 1995. The
group's guitarist, Steve Cropper, won a 1969 award for
co-writing Otis Redding's (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay.
Coleman, 76, just received the first Grammy nomination of
his career for his first album in 10 years. Baez has received
six nominations, but no trophies.
The honours are too late for some recipients. Doors singer
Jim Morrison died in 1971, the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia in
1995, Callas in 1977, and Wills in 1975. Booker T & the MG's
drummer Al Jackson, Jr also died in 1975, murdered by an
unknown assailant in his Memphis home.
- Reuters
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