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Legends who have been featured on Vintage Rock scored high at last night's Grammy Awards.
Paul McCartney won a Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, for his 2012 release Kisses on the Bottom. The announcement was made prior to the show’s televised portion.
This win brings McCartney’s career Grammy total to 16. Kisses on the Bottom is an album largely comprised of lush cover versions of songs he enjoyed as a child, with guest appearances from Stevie Wonder and Eric Clapton. He performed the album’s lead single, ‘My Valentine,’ with help from Joe Walsh at last year’s Grammy Awards ceremony.
Forty-five years after its initial creation, the Beach Boys‘ long-unreleased Smile album took home a Grammy in the Best Historical Album category, beating out the deluxe version of McCartney‘s Ram.
The lavishly packaged five CD, two-LP 2012 deluxe box set release of The Smile Sessions was a well-deserved win. Back in the 60s, Wilson gave up on finishing Smile partially because he felt the Beatles had “got there first” with their groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
There were also some great performances at last night's Grammys. Sting joined pop stars Bruno Mars and Rihanna to perform a reggae-themed medley in honor of Bob Marley.
The former Police leader wandered into the proceedings somewhere near the start of the temporary supergroup’s performance of Mars’ hit ‘Locked Out of Heaven.’ The unlikely collective next segued into ‘Walking on the Moon,’ from the 1979 Police album Reggatta de Blanc.
Then they wrapped things up with Marley’s ‘Could You Be Loved,’ complete with an extremely mediocre rap from the reggae legend’s son Damien.
Elton John led an all-star performance of the Band‘s classic anthem ‘The Weight’ in tribute to Levon Helm, the Band’s drummer who died in April 2012 after a long battle with cancer.
John was joined for this performance by members of Alabama Shakes and Mumford & Sons, as well as legendary singer Mavis Staples. ‘The Weight,’ a 1968 single also featured on the band’s Music From Big Pink album, was one of the Band’s most famous songs, and quite a logical choice for a tribute to Helm.
The performance came after the show’s annual montage of musicians who passed away the previous year, and John took the opportunity to send his thoughts out to the victims of the recent Sandy Hook massacre: “As we commemorate the passing of these great men and women, we remember the teachers and students of Sandy Hook whose songs unfortunately ended too soon.”
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