Nirvana and the Heart Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson all just received lifetime achievement awards at the Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards on Saturday. The ceremony took place at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles, California and Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear all attended.
Novoselic spoke Nirvana’s acceptance speech saying, “They said that Kurt [Cobain] was witty or maybe he was a smartass, And he said, ‘Teenage angst has paid off well.’ It has. I do fan mail, old-fashioned fan mail, and I get letters from around the world, like Nirvana fans, just all around the world, A lot of young people. There’s a new generation of Nirvana fans, and I’m just very grateful for that.”
Ann Wilson chose not to attend, and Hipgnosis Songs founder Merck Mercuriadis accepted the achievement on her behalf.
Nancy Wilson did attend and stated, “In 1974, I followed my calling, which pulled me out of my college dorm room to capture this dream I had with my sister since we were little kids, The dream was to be the Beatles. We followed our muse through the decades. We blazed a few trails and broke a few glass ceilings along the way for both men and women. And Recording Academy, thank you forever for this. It’s gonna look super sweet on my grandma’s piano in my home studio.”
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