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POP/ROCK - Jan. 8, 1992

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Grammy Honors: As a prelude to this morning’s announcement of Grammy Award nominees, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences has named recording stars who will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards and those selected for the Academy Hall of Fame. Lifetime achievement honors go to soul’s James Brown, jazz’s John Coltrane, rock’s Jimi Hendrix and blues singer-guitarist Muddy Waters. Recorded works selected for the Hall of Fame are by Patsy Cline (“Crazy”), Count Basie (“Every Day I Have the Blues”), Miles Davis (“Kind of Blue”), Nat King Cole (“Mona Lisa”) and composer Maurice Ravel (conducting his “Bolero”). The academy also has voted Trustee Awards to gospel pioneer Thomas A. Dorsey, NARAS executive Christine Farnon and Broadway lyricists Oscar Hammerstein II and Lorenz Hart. The Grammy Awards will be presented Feb. 25.

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