Mick Jagger, both a Grammy Award winner and Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient with the Rolling Stones, will perform live and without the Stones on the upcoming Grammy Awards in a memorial tribute to singer Solomon Burke, it was announced today.
Jagger will be accompanied by fellow Grammy winner Raphael Saadiq and his band as part of the telecast's annual "In Memoriam" tribute, which pays homage to members of the music community who have passed away in the previous year. They will pay tribute to singer Solomon Burke, who died in October. Burke was a major influence on the Rolling Stones, who covered his songs "Cry to Me" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love."
It will mark the first time Jagger has ever performed on the Grammy Awards show. He has appeared only once before on the Grammys. It was with the Rolling Stones via satellite from London in 1986 when Eric Clapton presented the Stones with the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jagger and Saadiq join previously announced performers and nominees including Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, Eminem, Lady Antebellum, Muse and Katy Perry. Also appearing will be Justin Bieber, Usher, Jaden Smith; Drake, Rihanna, Gwyneth Paltrow, the Jim Henson Company Puppets, Norah Jones, LL Cool J and Nicki Minaj.
The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards (www.grammy.com) will take place live on Feb. 13, 2011 from Staples Center in Los Angeles. The show will be broadcast in high definition and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network from 8 – 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).
The show also will be supported on radio worldwide via Westwood One, and covered online at Grammy.com and CBS.com, and on YouTube at www.youtube.com/thegrammys.
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If anyone owes a PART of his success to Solomon Burke it's Mick Jagger, that alone should be worth DVR-ing the Grammys this year..well maybe watching Justin Bieber perform too.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to Bieber, too. :P
Mick always said "theres always room on the pop charts for a good looking boy with a nice hair cut" I say "wait until his balls drop and his voice changes".
Yes ,perhaps the greatest entertainer ever lived but certainly the best
Rock singer, front-man to the Greatest Rock & Roll band on Earth
The Rolling Stones.
Great piece, I also wrote about the Grammy Awards here: examiner.com/top-news-in-san-francisco/sf-anticipates-53rd-grammy-awards-with-jagger-dylan-and-bieber
Great piece, I also wrote about the Grammy Awards here: examiner.com/top-news-in-san-francisco/sf-anticipates-53rd-grammy-awards-with-jagger-dylan-and-bieber
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