White Stripes, Foos winGrammys

Mon 11th Feb, 2008 in International News

In a ceremony dominated by the absent Amy Winehouse, the 50th Annual Grammy Awards also heralded wins for the White Stripes, Foo Fighters, Slayer and Robert Plant.

Winehouse received nods for Pop Vocal Album, Female Pop Vocal Performance and – weirdly given her two-album status – Best New Artist. Having been denied a visa to enter the USA, the singer got to watch the ceremony from the less boozy environs of rehab.

Best Alternative Music Album went to the White Stripes for Icky Thump, while the Foos took out Hard Rock Performance. Elsewhere, Slayer won Metal Performance, and Pop Collaboration With Vocals went to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’s Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On).

Having delivered a knockout show at Melbourne’s Good Vibrations festival, Kanye West bypassed Brisbane to be back in America for the ceremony. He took the stage at LA’s Staples Centre for a jet lag-defying run-through of Hey Mama and Stronger, the latter of which won Best Rap Solo Performance.

Here’s an abridged list of the winners from the 50th Grammy Awards. Sorry to anyone waiting to hear the winner of Spoken Word Album for Children…

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Mark Ronson.

Pop Vocal Album: “Back to Black,” Amy Winehouse.

Female Pop Vocal Performance: “Rehab,” Amy Winehouse.

Male Pop Vocal Performance: “What Goes Around…Comes Around,” Justin Timberlake.

Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: “Makes Me Wonder,” Maroon 5.

Pop Collaboration With Vocals: “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On),” Robert Plant & Alison Krauss.

Pop Instrumental Album: “The Mix-Up,” Beastie Boys.

Pop Instrumental Performance: “One Week Last Summer,” Joni Mitchell.

Alternative Music Album: “Icky Thump,” The White Stripes.

Rock Song: “Radio Nowhere,” Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen).

Solo Rock Vocal Performance: “Radio Nowhere,” Bruce Springsteen.

Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals: “Icky Thump,” The White Stripes.

Hard Rock Performance: “The Pretender,” Foo Fighters.

Rap Solo Performance: “Stronger,” Kanye West.

Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: “Southside,” Common, featuring Kanye West.

Rap Song: “Good Life,” Aldrin Davis, Mike Dean, Faheem Najm & Kanye West, songwriters (J. Ingram & Q. Jones, songwriters) (Kanye West Featuring T-Pain).

Bluegrass Album: “The Bluegrass Diaries,” Jim Lauderdale.

Traditional Blues Album: “Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas,” Henry James Townsend, Joe Willie “Pinetop” Perkins, Robert Lockwood Jr. & David “Honeyboy” Edwards.

Contemporary Blues Album: “The Road to Escondido,” JJ Cale & Eric Clapton.

New Age Album: “Crestone,” Paul Winter Consort.

Contemporary Jazz Album: “River: The Joni Letters,” Herbie Hancock.

Jazz Vocal Album: “Avant Gershwin,” Patti Austin.

Jazz Instrumental Solo: “Anagram,” Michael Brecker, soloist.

Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: “Pilgrimage,” Michael Brecker.

Large Jazz Ensemble Album: “A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina),” Terence Blanchard.

Latin Jazz Album: “Funk Tango,” Paquito D’Rivera Quintet.

Urban/Alternative Performance: “Daydreamin’,” Lupe Fiasco, featuring Jill Scott.

Dance Recording: “LoveStoned/I Think She Knows,” Justin Timberlake, Nate (Danja) Hills, Timbaland & Justin Timberlake, producers; Jimmy Douglass & Timbaland, mixers.

Electronic/Dance Album: “We Are the Night,” The Chemical Brothers.

Reggae: “Mind Control,” Stephen Marley.