QUEEN To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award At GRAMMY's
January 9, 2018, 6 years ago
Queen will receive an honorary Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 GRAMMY’s. The award is presented to those “who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording.”
Queen — bassist John Deacon, guitarist Brian May, frontman Freddie Mercury, and drummer Roger Taylor — have made an indelible impact on the music industry with blockbuster hits such as the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame-inducted recordings "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Will Rock You"/"We Are The Champions."
This year's other Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are Hal Blaine, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Louis Jordan, the Meters, and Tina Turner. Bill Graham, Seymour Stein and John Williams will receive the Trustees Award. Tony Agnello and Richard Factor are the Technical GRAMMY Award recipients.
Nominations have been announced for the 60th Grammy Awards, with the ceremony scheduled to air live from Madison Square Garden in New York City on January 28th on CBS. The nominations in the rock and metal categories are listed below:
Best Rock Performance:
“You Want It Darker” - Leonard Cohen
“The Promise” - Chris Cornell
“Run” - Foo Fighters
“No Good” - Kaleo
“Go To War” - Nothing More
Best Metal Performance:
“Invisible Enemy” - August Burns Red
“Black Hoodie” - Body Count
“Forever” - Code Orange
“Sultan’s Curse” - Mastodon
“Clockworks” - Meshuggah
Best Rock Song:
“Atlas, Rise!” - James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich, songwriters (Metallica)
“Blood In The Cut” - JT Daly & Kristine Flaherty, songwriters (K.Flay)
“Go To War” - Ben Anderson, Jonny Hawkins, Will Hoffman, Daniel Oliver, David Pramik & Mark Vollelunga, songwriters (Nothing More)
“Run” - Foo Fighters, songwriters (Foo Fighters)
“The Stage” - Zachary Baker, Brian Haner, Matthew Sanders, Jonathan Seward & Brooks Wackerman, songwriters (Avenged Sevenfold)
Best Rock Album:
Emperor Of Sand - Mastodon
Hardwired…To Self-Destruct - Metallica
The Stories We Tell Ourselves - Nothing More
Villains - Queens Of The Stone Age
A Deeper Understanding - The War On Drugs
For a full list of nominees, visit Grammy.com.