| LOS ANGELES (Reuters, Wed Dec 20,
2006) - 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 honorary 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.
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