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For those who don't want to tune in to the Union Budget
on 28 February, Channel V and Star World bring the 44th
edition of the Grammy Awards live at 6:30 am.
The
show will be repeated the same day at 8:20 pm with more
repeats on 1 March at 11:30 pm and on 2 March at 4 pm. Repeats
on Star World will be on 28 Feb at 5:30 pm and 9:00 pm.
Legendary
Irish rock group U2 leads the pack with eight nominations.
The song Walk On which appears on the band's 10th
studio album All That You Can't Leave Behind has
been nominated for Record of the Year and Best Rock Song.
The band won the Record of the year Grammy last year for
the cut Beautiful Day from the same album, which
now figures in the Album of the Year nominee list. The band
won this award in 1987 for the groundbreaking The Joshua
Tree.
Veteran singer Bob Dylan also features in the Album of the
Year list. Love and Theft is his 27th regular studio
album. It is Dylan's fourth Album of the Year nomination.
He won in this category with his last album, Time Out
of Mind, in 1997. A track from the album Honest
With Me has been nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal
Performance.
OutKast's
fourth album Stankonia is a finalist for Best Rap
Album as well as album of the year. The Coen Brothers' O
Brother, Where Art Thou? is the first film soundtrack
to receive an Album Of The Year nomination since Whitney
Houston's Waiting To Exhale in 1996. Three tracks
from the album have been nominated for Grammy's in the country
music field. Additionally, the album's producer, T Bone
Burnett, has a nomination for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical.
Song
Of The Year nominees include U2's Stuck in a Moment You
Can't Get Out Of, Train's Drops Of Jupiter,
newcomer Alicia Keys' Fallin and Nelly Furtado's
I'm Like a Bird. Competing for Best New Artist is
India Arie. She received seven nominations for her debut
album, Acoustic Soul. Nelly Furtado received four
nominations, including Song of the year from the album Whoa,
Nelly! Another newcomer Alicia Keys received six nominations
for the album Songs in A Minor.
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