By Steve Newton
Few award presentations in the history of rock music have caused as much controversy as the one that took place at the Grammys back on February 6, 1989.
That was when Jethro Tull‘s Crest of a Knave album won the Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, shockingly beating out the odds-on favourite, Metallica‘s …And Justice for All.
Six days after the awards show I interviewed Robbin Crosby before a Ratt show in Odessa, Texas, and asked him what he thought about it.
He said that he felt Guns N’ Roses deserved the Grammy for its hugely successful Appetite for Destruction album, which makes total sense–if it had been eligible for nomination in the first place.
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