For this week’s edition of Award Show Sundays, I’ve decided to not only travel back in time to 1997, but we’re going across the pond to the U.K. for the Brit Awards. That year, the people who organize that particular ceremony saw fit to honor Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, AKA The Bee Gees. I believe this marks two consecutive Sundays (or at least two out of three) that we’ve done a piece on the Gibb brothers, but this performance […]
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Award Show Sundays: Next Time Stay Home, Eddie
I love Pearl Jam. Really, I do. There was a brief period in junior or senior year of high school when I used to rag on my best friend for worshipping the ground they walked on, but then he lent me his tape of Ten and my teenage mind was blown. Although they’ve had their moments that have left me befuddled (hello, No Code), I am a fan to this day, not least because I feel like Eddie Vedder has […]
Award Show Sundays: From One Set of Blue-Eyed Soul Boys to Another
It just struck me…maybe Jimmy Fallon got the idea for the Barry Gibb talk show from this performance? The year was 2003. After a three year run as America’s best-selling act, *Nsync had already splintered, and singer Justin Timberlake was well on his way to solo superstardom via his album, Justified. Even with that in mind, no one could have known that the group’s appearance on that year’s Grammy Awards show would wind up being their last televised appearance as […]
Award Show Sundays: The American Music Awards Gets Gangsta
It’s probably hard for those under 25 to grasp, but even in the early Nineties, hip-hop was still persona non grata on mainstream, primetime television. Whereas nowadays, “60 Minutes” does interviews with Eminem, Jay-Z appears on “Oprah” and you can find name-your-rap-artist on late night TV, back in the day the only rappers you’d occasionally find on network TV were the pop-oriented Young MC types. That extended to award shows as well. Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre’s performance on […]
Award Show Sundays: The Stevie & Bette Show
I’ve been in a Stevie frame of mind lately-definitely not a bad place to be. Mr. Wonder has won all sorts of awards during his career, but the feat that impresses most is the fact that he won the Album of the Year Grammy three times in four years-Innervisions won in ’73, Fulfillingness’ First Finale won in ’74, and Songs in the Key of Life won in ’76. Hell, when Paul Simon won the AOTY in ’75 for Still Crazy […]
Award Show Sundays: “I Saw Her Standing There”
When I talk about the Grammy Awards, I refer to Ken Ehrlich’s book At the Grammys: Behind the Scenes at Music’s Greatest Night quite a bit. The show producer’s recap of three decades worth of ceremonies is quite an interesting read. Excellently reverent in spots (he obviously has a hard on for certain artists like Bonnie Raitt and Melissa Etheridge) and delightfully bitchy in others (not a fan of Britney Spears…or Usher…or obnoxious former NARAS president Michael Greene), I recommend […]
Award Show Sundays: Enter Sinead
Earlier in the week, I published a piece making some suggestions on how to improve the Grammy Award ceremony. One suggestion I had was to focus on new artists, and I mentioned that the first time I saw or heard Sinead O’ Connor was on a Grammy show. Of course, from there it was a small step to go on YouTube, find the clip and post it for you guys. I was 12 when this show aired, so obviously the […]
Award Show Sundays: Have a Little “Faith”
In between cursing myself for not having an NBA TV cable package and watching Season 7 of “Scrubs” for the 240th time, I turned to YouTube to pass the time. I somehow stumbled upon “A Different Story”, the documentary about the life and career of British superstar George Michael. As much as George has made some incredibly stupid decisions in his life, most of which have to do with getting behind the wheel of a car stoned off his gourd, […]
Award Show Sundays: Christmas in Hollis?
This week’s Award Show Sundays column gives props to Run-DMC with a clip from the 1986 Black Gold Awards.
Award Show Sundays: He’s Marvin Gaye, Bitch
Time for another legendary award show moment-check out Marvin Gaye being given his first Grammy by Rick James & Grace Jones.
Award Show Sundays: Sweet Baby James
One of my favorite Grammy Award moments occurred back in 2003, when two of the artists tagged to carry the singer-songwriter torch into the 21st century joined forces with the man who lit the torch for a wonderful performance. The young artists were Vanessa Carlton, then riding high with her hit “A Thousand Miles”, and John Mayer, who had already scored huge hits with “No Such Thing” and “Your Body is a Wonderland”. Carlton performed a shortened version of “Miles” […]
Award Show Sundays: Lenny Gets the Led Out
It’s amazing to think that the guy who started out being giggled at for being Denise Huxtable’s husband has gone on to have an enduring career that’s lasted for over two decades now. Lenny Kravitz went from laughingstock to near-legend by virtue of consistently solid albums and smoking live performances. He hasn’t done too much in terms of televised award show performances, but this run through “Are You Gonna Go My Way” from the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards is […]