He had the words ''Soy Bomb'' painted on his bare chest and danced next to Mr. Dylan sang ''Love Sick,'' a downtown performance artist named Michael Portnoy, who said he was hired by the producers as one of 60 actors to provide a ''good vibe'' onstage with Mr.
The show, broadcast by CBS from Radio City Music Hall with Kelsey Grammer as host, suffered some of the pitfalls of live television, including stage crashers. Shawn Colvin's ''Sunny Came Home,'' a ballad about a woman who leaves home with her children and burns down her house, was named record of the year (an award for a single) and song of the year (a songwriter's award). ''We didn't know what we had when we did it, but we did it anyway.'' ''We got a particular type of sound on this record which you don't get every day,'' said a smiling Mr. Dylan's first major Grammy Award on his own. He has shared some awards and won in 1980 for best male rock vocalist and in 1995 for traditional folk album with ''World Gone Wrong.'' In 1991, the recording academy gave him a Lifetime Achievement prize, a noncompetitive award.īut the album-of-the-year award for 1998 is Mr. Dylan's pioneering albums in the 1960's were not recognized by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which chooses the Grammy Awards. ''Time Out of Mind'' has been widely hailed as Bob Dylan's best album in two decades. The rock category was dominated by Jakob Dylan and his own band, the Wallflowers, who won awards for best rock performance by a duo or group and best rock song for their hit ''One Headlight.'' Dylan's album ''Time Out of Mind'' brought him three Grammys, including album of the year. Back in the 1960's, Bob Dylan sang, ''My name it is nothing.'' But at the 40th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, the Dylan name was a guaranteed winner.
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