George Harrison to receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

George Harrison of The Beatles is among those chosen for Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 57th Grammy Awards next year.

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Published : 21 Dec 2014, 08:11 AM
Updated : 21 Dec 2014, 08:41 AM

The Recording Academy announced that the others to be honoured were pop music band the Bee Gees, blues guitarist Buddy Guy, French composer Pierre Boulez, Texas Tejano musician Flaco Jiménez, country music duo the Louvin Brothers, and jazz composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter.

“This year, we pay tribute to exceptional creators who have made prolific contributions to our culture and history,” the Academy's President-CEO Neil Portnow said in a press statement.

Describing the Beatles' composer, singer and guitarist, George Harrison, as a 'multi-instrumentalist', the Recording Academy said in its statement that his embracing of Indian music had often been credited with helping to introduce world music to the West.

In Aug 1971, Harrison, a 12-time Grammy winner, and his friend sitar maestro Ravi Shankar organised a benefit concert at the Madison Square Garden in New York.

The show was meant to raise international awareness of the 1971 Liberation War and fund relief efforts for the refugees, who had fled Bangladesh and taken shelter in the neighbouring Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam.

The historic 'Concert for Bangladesh' was followed by a bestselling live album, which went on to be the Album of the Year in the 15th Grammy Awards in 1972.