Fact #159579
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Steve Winwood's Higher Love wins Record Of The Year at the Grammy Awards. Robert Palmer is Best Male Vocalist. Jody Watley is best new artist. Janet Jackson performs What Have You Done For Me Lately, but does not win any awards. Michael Jackson and The Beastie Boys are also in attendance.
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Adam Yauch (Beastie Boys) : The rules were that you had to wear a tuxedo. Ours were at the cleaners, so we jumped around and grabbed our dicks a lot and laughed a lot.
Adam Horovitz (Beastie Boys) : The guys at the Grammies all thanked us for coming, whereas a month before they'd have called The Police . The thing is, it was obvious we weren't going to suddenly open bottles of champagne when we reached No1 because we never worked to get there.
Mike D (Beastie Boys) : We got more press out of it than any of the winners. When you're there meeting all these legends, you almost don't want to diss anybody. But then we thought, what the hell. I hate Barbra Streisand more than anybody in the world.
Adam Yauch : Backstage, there were all these Mafia-type promoters offering us blow, but we told them to fuck off and laughed at them, you know. We don't do that shit any more. Then Billy Idol walked in, so we said, 'Yo, what's happening?' And he just turned around and said, 'My album's at No7 in the charts.' Can you believe it? He didn't even say hello. He left because we were laughing so hard at him. Then the organisers asked us to leave. What a prick!
Jody Watley : The first person to greet me when I won was Michael Jackson! He ran up to me, hugged me, kissed me on the cheek, told me how happy he was for me... I mean, I’d written fan-letters to Michael when I was kid. So to find him waiting there for me just made the night even more magical… And, when I think about it now, it just makes me want to cry. Because obviously I was just so sad when he passed away.
(Source : http://www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/465/jody_watley_threes_a_crowd/)
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Adam Horovitz (Beastie Boys) : The guys at the Grammies all thanked us for coming, whereas a month before they'd have called The Police . The thing is, it was obvious we weren't going to suddenly open bottles of champagne when we reached No1 because we never worked to get there.
Mike D (Beastie Boys) : We got more press out of it than any of the winners. When you're there meeting all these legends, you almost don't want to diss anybody. But then we thought, what the hell. I hate Barbra Streisand more than anybody in the world.
Adam Yauch : Backstage, there were all these Mafia-type promoters offering us blow, but we told them to fuck off and laughed at them, you know. We don't do that shit any more. Then Billy Idol walked in, so we said, 'Yo, what's happening?' And he just turned around and said, 'My album's at No7 in the charts.' Can you believe it? He didn't even say hello. He left because we were laughing so hard at him. Then the organisers asked us to leave. What a prick!
Jody Watley : The first person to greet me when I won was Michael Jackson! He ran up to me, hugged me, kissed me on the cheek, told me how happy he was for me... I mean, I’d written fan-letters to Michael when I was kid. So to find him waiting there for me just made the night even more magical… And, when I think about it now, it just makes me want to cry. Because obviously I was just so sad when he passed away.
(Source : http://www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/465/jody_watley_threes_a_crowd/)