Grammy Showdown: 2012

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Can Adele pull off a clean sweep? Will Kanye West win solo or with big bro Jay-Z? Our all-star panel – and a Las Vegas oddsmaker – break it down.

Panel of Experts: Adam Lambert, Common, Mark Hoppus of Blink-182, producer-DJ Avicii and Kelly Clarkson

Album of the Year

21 Adele

Wasting Light Foo Fighters

Born This Way Lady Gaga

Doo-Wop & Hooligans Bruno Mars

Loud Rihanna

The Experts Say

Mark Hoppus Adele's album was inescapable this year. Housewives, hipsters and people who normally listen to hip-hop all love it.

Common I can put Adele's album on and listen to the whole thing. But Lady Gaga may pull off an upset.

Avicii Bruno Mars had a shitload of hits on Doo-Wops & Hooligans, and he's so talented. His melodies really get to me.

Vegas Odds Favor

Adele 1-2

Who Should Win: Adele

After owning the charts for more than a year, Adele's hit-stacked LP is all but guaranteed to take the prize.

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Song Stories

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry | 1984

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.

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