Wow! Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have won Album of the Year for Raising Sand after winning Record of the Year with Please Read the Letter from the same album! The former Led Zeppelin frontman still makes magic. More in the previous post.
This is an honour that has never been won by Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones. Come to think of it, the Beach Boys and Led Zeppelin never even won a Grammy!
Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder and Frank Sinatra have won the most Album of the Year awards, claiming the honour three times each.
- Paul Simon for Graceland in 1987, Still Crazy After All These Years in 1976 and for Bridge Over Troubled Waters with Art Garfunkel in 1971.
- Stevie Wonder for Songs in the Key of Life in 1977, Fulfillingness’ First Finale in 1975 and Innervisions in 1974.
- Frank Sinatra for A Man And His Music in 1967, September Of My Years in 1966 and Come Dance With Me in 1960.
The Beatles won for Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1968. John Lennon also won with Yoko Ono for Double Fantasy in 1982 – two years after his death.
Bob Dylan won for Time Out Of Mind in 1998. He also won with George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr for The Concert For Bangladesh soundtrack in 1973.
Fleetwood Mac won for Rumours in 1978, Ray Charles for Genius Loves Company in 2004, Santana for Supernatural in 2000, Billy Joel for 52nd Street in 1980, Eric Clapton for Unplugged in 1993 and Carole King for Tapestry in 1972.
Sergeant Pepper’s has to be the all-time best Album of the Year followed by Bridge Over Troubled Waters.
Check Wikipedia and the Grammy.com for other winners. Wikipedia seems to go by the year the award was presented and Grammy.com by the year for which the award was given.
The Rolling Stones have won only two Grammys – Voodo Lounge picked up the award for the Best Rock Album in 1995 and Love Is Strong for best short music video the same year.
The only Beach Boy to win a Grammy is Brian Wilson. And he won just once, in 1995, for Best Rock Instrumental for Mrs O’ Leary’s Cow.
Elvis Presley won three awards – for gospels: Best Inspirational (non-classical) for How Great Thou Art in 1975, Best Inspirational for He Touched Me in 1973 and Best Sacred Performance for How Great Thou Art again in 1968.
Bruce Springsteen has collected 18 Grammys including the Song of the Year for Streets Of Philadelphia in 1995. Dancing In The Dark, one of his greatest songs, won only the award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Male Artiste. The Rising won three awards – for Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song and Best Male Rock Vocal Perrformance — in 2003.
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