32nd Annual Grammy Awards
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| 32nd Annual Grammy Awards | |
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| Date | February 21, 1990 |
| Location | Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California |
| Hosted by | Garry Shandling |
| Most awards | Bonnie Raitt (4) |
| Television/radio coverage | |
| Network | CBS |
The 32nd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 21, 1990, and hosted by Garry Shandling. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.[1][2]
Award winners
The Grammy Award for Best New Artist was originally awarded to Milli Vanilli. However, on November 20, 1990, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences revoked the award[3][4][5] after producer Frank Farian admitted the duo did not sing at all on their album, Girl You Know It's True.[6] As of the 2021 ceremony, this is the only time where a Grammy has been revoked.
General
- Record of the Year
- Arif Mardin (producer) & Bette Midler (artist) for "Wind Beneath My Wings"
- Don Henley, Bruce Hornsby (producers) & Don Henley (artist) for "The End of the Innocence"
- Christopher Neil, Mike Rutherford (producers) & Mike + The Mechanics (artist) for "The Living Years"
- David Z. Fine, Fine Young Cannibals (producers) & Fine Young Cannibals (artist) for "She Drives Me Crazy"
- Mick Jones, Billy Joel (producers) & Billy Joel (artist) for "We Didn't Start The Fire"
- Album of the Year
- Don Was (producer) & Bonnie Raitt for Nick of Time
- Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar (producers) & Don Henley (artist) for The End of the Innocence
- Jeff Lynn, Tom Petty, Mike Campbell (producers) & Tom Petty (artist) for Full Moon Fever
- Fine Young Cannibals (producers) & Fine Young Cannibals (artist) for The Raw and the Cooked
- Jeff Lynne, George Harrison (producers) & Traveling Wilburys (artists) for Traveling Wilburys Volume One
- Song of the Year
- Jeff Silbar & Larry Henley (songwriters) for "Wind Beneath My Wings" performed by Bette Midler
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Special Merit Awards
Nat "King" Cole, Miles Davis, Vladimir Horowitz, and Paul McCartney were each awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
References
- ^ "Bonnie Raitt wins this thing called Grammy 4 times". The Milwaukee Sentinel. 22 February 1990. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ "1989 Grammy Award Winners". Grammy.com. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ "Milli Vanilli is stripped of Grammy for fakery". The Milwaukee Sentinel. 20 November 1990. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ Shriver, Jerry (January 28, 2010). "Milli Vanilli frontman says duo were musical 'scapegoats'". USA Today. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Philips, Chuck (November 16, 1990). "It's True: Milli Vanilli Didn't Sing : Pop music: The duo could be stripped of its Grammy after admitting it lip-synced the best-selling 'Girl You Know It's True.'". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Philips, Chuck (November 20, 1990). "Milli Vanilli's Grammy Rescinded by Academy : Music: Organization revokes an award for the first time after revelation that the duo never sang on album". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 December 2012.