.

Amy Winehouse Will Perform at Grammys, Via Satellite; Kanye Joins Mix

By 
February 8, 2008 11:30 AM ET

Amy Winehouse will perform during this year's Grammy ceremony despite being denied a visa. Thanks to the wonders of technology, Winehouse, who is currently encamped in a U.K. rehab center, will perform live in a London studio the night of the awards show, with her performance being beamed to Los Angeles and around the world via satellite. "I'm raring to go and really excited to be performing at my first Grammy Awards," Winehouse tells Usmagazine.com. "I'm really sorry I can't be there but I appreciate that I'm being given a second chance via satellite." Also performing at the Grammys (though not yet officially confirmed) is Kanye West, who was seen rehearsing for the ceremony yesterday afternoon. West, nominated for eight awards, will reportedly perform a medley of tracks including "Hey Mama" as a tribute to his mother Donda.

Related Stories:
• Akon, Daughtry, Pete Wentz, Others Predict Grammy Winners
• Grammys Add Fogerty, Fergie, Possibly Michael Jackson
• Grammys Add Feist, Keys, Beatles Tribute to Ceremony

To read the new issue of Rolling Stone online, plus the entire RS archive: Click Here

prev
Velvet Revolver's Scott Weiland Enters Rehab
Music Main Next
John McCain Will Stop Playing Mellencamp Songs at Rallies

Picks From Around the Web


blog comments powered by Disqus
Daily Newsletter

Get the latest RS news in your inbox.

Sign up to receive the Rolling Stone newsletter and special offers from RS and its
marketing partners.

X

We may use your e-mail address to send you the newsletter and offers that may interest you, on behalf of Rolling Stone and its partners. For more information please read our Privacy Policy.

Most Popular

Photos & Videos

Go To Content

Random Notes: Hottest Rock Pictures

Go To Content Play Video

Video: Stefon's Wedding Marks Hader's Last 'SNL'

Go To Content

Gallery: Summer Festival Style

Best Ever Lists
500 Greatest Songs of All Time

Other Lists

Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

More Song Stories entries »