The GRAMMY award ceremony aired last night from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV. The ceremony included an on-air In Memoriam segment to remember all the lives lost throughout the music industry. The segment included tributes to Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill, The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, and the prolific solo artist (and man of many bands) Mark Lanegan.
While the GRAMMYs does provide an extensive In Memoriam segment on their website, the ceremony's televised portion did not include former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison or Megaforce Records' founder and industry titan Jon Zazula.
The following is a list of those remembered during the televised portion. The full online In Memoriam can be found here.
- Taylor Hawkins
- Marilyn Bergman
- Virgil Abloh
- Gary Brooker
- Walter Yetnikoff
- Sarah Dash
- Ken Krage
- Dottie Dodgion
- Paddy Maloney
- Jim Steinman
- Biz Markie
- Marilia Dias Mendonca
- Clarence "Mac" Macdonald
- Rusty Young
- Connie Bradley
- Stonewall Jackson
- Roger Hawkin
- Betty Davis
- George Wein
- Johnny Ventura
- Lisa Roy
- Charlie Watts
- Wanda Young
- Meat Loaf
- Al Schlesinger
- Lee "Scratch" Perry
- Don Everly
- Robbie Shakespeare
- Michael Lang
- Ronnie Spector
- Ralph Emery
- Young Dolph
- Nanci Griffith
- Jesse D
- Mark Lanegan
- Gregory "Shock G" Jacob
- Vicente Fernandez
- Jeremy Lubbock
- Tom Parker
- Dusty Hill
- Ethel Gabriel
- Lloyd Price
- Al Schmitt
- Ron Tutt
- Joe Simon
- Malcolm Cecil
- Jon Lind
- Greg Tate
- Elliot Mazer
- Bobbie Nelson
- Bj Thomas
- Earl "DMX" Simmons
- Dallas Frazier
- Bhaskar Menon
- Ronnie Wilson
- Marshall Gelfand
- Michael Nesmith
- James Mtume
- Tom T. Hal
- Chucky Thompson
- Stephen Sondheim
