When the Hard Rock/Heavy Metal grammy was added in 1989, Metallica came up against Jethro Tull. Despite being dead certs to win the Grammy, Metallica lost to Jethro Tull.
What if Metallica won?
Hey, how could a band named after a 17th century agricultural innovator possibly lose? Huge level of awesomeness there.![]()
So?No. One, which is from one of the best metal albums of all time by one of the big pioneers of thrash metal, losing to some guy playing a flute?
So?
Crest of a Knave was a very well put together hard rock album, and the Award was for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal performance. It's hardly the most disappointing thing the Grammys have ever done.
The Tull Grammy is infamous in the metal world, but given that we live in a universe where Milli Vanilli won a Grammy, yeah, I'd say that qualifies as dramatic understatement!
My favourite anecdote concerning Milli Vanilli; when interviewed by Classic Rock Presents AOR a few years ago, shortly before his untimely passing, Jani Lane hoked out that "Heaven" peaking at number two behind "Girl You Know It's True" was basically the same thing as being number one.