It’s nice to be honored by your peers and the industry, especially if the honor pays tribute to your life’s work. The Recording Academy has announced that it will honor a select group of artists this summer with the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award.’ Tina Turner, Neil Diamond, Louis Jordan, studio musician Hal Blaine, Queen, The Meters, and Emmylou Harris have all been selected.
Although the band began in the early 70s, Queen rose in stature with the 80s MTV network, hitting the charts multiple times, pushing two of their songs into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and selling over 300 million records. In spite of the band’s incredible journey in music, the band will always be remembered for Freddie’s life and death; he announced his diagnosis of AIDS in 1991 on November 23rd, (in spite of earlier denials) and died a day later of bronchial pneumonia.
Queen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003. Now, the Recording Academy will honor the band with a Lifetime Achievement Award this summer.
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