Grammys for Bob Dylan, Candle in the Wind

NEW YORK, February 26: The recording industry paid homage to a legend honouring Bob Dylan with three Grammys including `Album of the year', ...

NEW YORK, February 26: The recording industry paid homage to a legend honouring Bob Dylan with three Grammys including `Album of the year’, while Shawn Colvin’s Sunny Came Home won `Song of the year’ and Paula Cole was named best new artist.

The 56 year-old veteran rocker won all three Grammys, the US music industry’s highest honour, for which he was nominated `Album of the year’, `Best male rock vocal performance’ and `Best contemporary folk album’.

Elton John’s tribute to the late Princess Diana, Candle in the Wind, 1997, won a Grammy award as the music industry has begun handing out its highest honours in a pre-televised ceremony. The song, a rewrite of John’s and collaborator Bernietaupin’s `Candle in the Wind’ tribute to Marilyn Monroe and which became the best-selling single of all time, won the Grammy for `Best male pop vocal performance’ yesterday.

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Bob Dylan’s son Jakob also won a pair of Grammys, one as part of his band The Wallflowers for `Best rock performance by a duo or group’ with vocalfor One Headlight, and another for writing The Difference, which was named `Best rock song’.

Other early Grammys went to producer and artist Kenneth `Babyface’ Edmonds, who was named `Producer of the year’, and Sarah Mclachlan, who picked up two of the honours, for `Best female pop vocal performance’ for Building a Mystery and `Best pop instrumental’ for Last Dance.

Babyface already had nine nomination for the awards which were presented in an early ceremony held before the three-hour national telecast of the 40th annual awards ceremony starting today. Only 14 of some 92 Grammys were to be presented on the broadcast, to be watched by some 1.5 billion people in 195 countries around the world.