THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK - THE TOURING YEARS WINS THE GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST MUSIC FILM AT MUSIC'S BIGGEST NIGHT

Academy Award®-winner Ron Howard’s acclaimed documentary feature film The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years won the GRAMMY Award for Best Music Film at last night's awards.

Up for the award alongside Beyoncé's Lemonade, Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble's The Music of Strangers, Steve Aoki's I'll Sleep When I'm Dead and American Saturday Night: Live From The Grand Ole Opry, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years earned the Best Music Film honor among stiff competition at Music's Biggest Night.  

Said Nigel Sinclair, Brian Grazer and Scott Pascucci, “We are so thrilled to win this award; this project was quite the adventure and we were so blessed to have Ron's leadership guiding us through it all. We join with Ron in thanking The Recording Academy for this honor which will mean so much to the huge number of people that worked on the film. Thank you to Jeff Jones and the team at Apple Corps for all their support and of course The Beatles for trusting us with their amazing story."

Featuring rare and exclusive footage, the film was produced with the full cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon, and Olivia Harrison.  White Horse Pictures’ Grammy Award-winning Nigel Sinclair, Scott Pascucci and Academy Award®-winner and Emmy® Award-winner Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment produced the multi award winning documentary with Howard. Apple Corps Ltd.’s Jeff Jones and Jonathan Clyde are executive producers, along with Imagine’s Michael Rosenberg, White Horse’s Guy East and Nicholas Ferrall as well as Award-winning Editor Paul Crowder and his long-time collaborator, writer Mark Monroe. Marc Ambrose is the supervising producer.

Available now on Blu-ray and DVD, plus a two-disc Special Collector’s Edition on both formats, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years is based on the first part of The Beatles’ career (1962-1966) – the period in which they toured and captured the world’s acclaim. Ron Howard’s film explores how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon, “The Beatles.”  It explores their inner workings – how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together – all the while, exploring The Beatles’ extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable, complementary personalities. The film focuses on the time period from the early Beatles’ journey in the days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966.  

ग्रैमी अवार्ड्स अटेंड नहीं करेंगे कान्ये वेस्ट और जस्टिन बीबर

द ग्रैमीज का ऐलान होने में दो हफ़्तों का ही समय रह गया है।  इन अवार्डों का दुनिया के तमाम आर्टिस्टों और संगीत के प्रशंसकों को बेसब्री से इंतज़ार रहता है।  मगर इस साल लगता है कि ग्रैमी को तगड़ा झटका लगने जा रहा है।  अब तक की खबरें बताती हैं कि जस्टिन बीबर, कान्ये वेस्ट और ड्रेक जैसी अंतर्राष्ट्रीय हस्तियां इस समारोह में शामिल नहीं होने जा रही।  जस्टिन बीबर महज़ २३ साल के हैं।  ड्रेक भी ३० साल के हैं।  इन दोनों को लगता है कि ग्रैमी अवार्ड्स युवा कलाकारों के लिए प्रासंगिक नहीं हैं।  ड्रिजी और बीबर को १२ नॉमिनेशन मिले हैं।  ड्रेक के नज़दीकी सूत्र इस बात की पुष्टि करते हैं कि यूरोप के टूर पर होने के कारण ड्रेक ग्रैमी में शामिल नहीं हो पाएंगे।  कान्ये वेस्ट क्यों नहीं शामिल होंगे? यह अभी साफ़ नहीं हुआ है।  कान्ये को २१ ग्रैमी अवार्ड्स मिल चुके हैं।  इस साल भी उन्हें ८ नामांकन मिले हैं।  परंतु सूत्र   बताते हैं कि जब भी कान्ये का ग्रैमी में श्वेत गायक से मुकाबला पड़ता हैं, वह ग्रैमी नहीं जीत पाते।  इन तीन कलाकारों के अलावा फ्रैंक ओसियन ने तो ग्रैमी के लिए अपना एल्बम भेजने तक की जहमत नहीं उठाई है।  ज़ाहिर है कि इस साल के ग्रैमी अवार्ड्स संगीत जगत की बड़ी हस्तियों की मौजूदगी से महरूम होने जा रहे हैं।

MIKE POSNER receives GRAMMY Nomination for SONG OF THE YEAR

Don't tell Mike Posner he's the odd duck in the 59th Grammy Awards Song of the Year category.

Yes, his "I Took A Pill In Ibiza" is up against stiff competition from Beyonce, Adele, Justin Bieber (for whom Posner co-wrote 2012's "Boyfriend") and Lukas Graham. But you won't find him waving a white flag.

"What's meant to be will be," Posner -- who was visiting his parents in suburban Detroit on Tuesday (Dec. 6) when the nominations were announced -- tells Billboard. "I'm incredibly grateful to be nominated. I think I deserve to be nominated. I think everybody else in the category deserves to be nominated. There were a lot of good songs this year. I'm not the only good writer, but I'm one of them. And it feels good to be recognized by other writers and other musicians and the people who vote for the Grammys and have them telling me my stuff doesn't suck. That's nice to hear from your peers."

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Posner woke up to the Grammy nomination news with an early call from Island Records chief David Massey. "I didn't pick up 'cause I was still kind of sleepy," he recalls. "Then I looked at my phone and saw I had a lot of text messages, so I called him back and said, 'What happened?' Then he told me and, yeah, it's pretty surreal, man. It's quite an honor. My mom just went 'Whoo!' "My dad goes, 'You gonna be on TV?' I said, 'Yeah, I think so. Not today, though.'"

The Grammys, meanwhile, have always been on Posner's radar as a major career goal. "I think about it every morning -- seriously," he says. "It's a goal of mine, and I'm pretty good at making my goals happen when they're the ones I really care about. Like my list of things I want to do: Play Jimmy Fallon with the Roots. That happened. Finish the album [At Night, Alone.]. That happened. So, yeah, I think (a Grammy win) is going to happen at some point -- if not this year, one year."

"Ibiza," which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and went double platinum, is the first single from Posner's sophomore album, his first studio set in six years after a couple of false starts and a label switch. It appears on At Night, Alone. in both a delicate singer-songwriter version and an EDM-flavored remix by Seeb. Posner is gearing up for some projects in the new year, as well. A book of his poetry, Teardrops and Balloons, will be published March 24, and he has a new musical project called mansionz with fellow writer-producer blackbear.

Drake, Justin Bieber and Metallica make it to the Grammy’s 2017

The Grammy has dropped its nominations for 2017 featuring chartbusters Drake, Justin Bieber and Metallica in its list.

 Drake holds the worldwide list of top artists in the leading line receiving 8 nods for the year including ‘Album of the Year’ and ‘Best Rap Album of the year’. Like last year, this year too Drake holds the nomination for ‘Best Rap Song/Performance’ for his pop song “Hotline Bling” and “Come and See me” for best R&B song.The Grammy’s holds a total of 8 nominations for Drake including “Work” for Record of the Year and Best Rap Performance (“Pop Style”).With his music all over the year, Drake also breaks the records of Apple iTunes along with being certified 4 Times Platinum by the RIAA Managing the same Feat for 2016-17. 

Following suit, Justin Bieber’s Purpose also receives nominations for ‘Album of the year’ competing with Adele’s 25 and Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Although Purpose was released in the 2015, it still stands nominated after the cut off of the 2016 Grammy ceremony bagging nominations for Best Pop Vocal Album and Song of the year for the song “Love Yourself.”The chart-breaking comeback by Metallica stands true to the real spirit of the band by picking up nominations for “Hardwired…to self destruct” as ‘Rock song of the year’.The Grammy of 2017, indeed holds a massive competition with some of our favourite artists and albums in the battleground with their amazing numbers.