{"id":28835,"date":"2024-02-22T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-22-1989-jethro-tull-beats-metallica-for-the-first-ever-hard-rock-metal-grammy\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:03:11","slug":"on-this-day-february-22-1989-jethro-tull-beats-metallica-for-the-first-ever-hard-rock-metal-grammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-22-1989-jethro-tull-beats-metallica-for-the-first-ever-hard-rock-metal-grammy\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, February 22, 1989: Jethro Tull beats Metallica for the first-ever Hard Rock\/Metal Grammy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-22\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, February 22, 1989\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 31st Grammy Awards added a new category, Best Hard Rock\/Metal Performance, but it was not without controversy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Jethro Tull<\/strong> won the award for their album <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Crest of the Knave<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, beating out <strong>Metallica,<\/strong> who were the favorites to win for their album <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">\u2026And Justice for All<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other artists nominated in the category included <strong>AC\/DC<\/strong>, <strong>Jane&#8217;s Addiction<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Iggy Pop<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">There was so much controversy over the win, that the following year the Grammys separated the categories into Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance, with Metallica winning Best Metal Performance in 1990 for &#8220;One.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, February 22, 1989\u2026 The 31st Grammy Awards added a new category, Best Hard Rock\/Metal Performance, but it was not without controversy. Jethro Tull won the award for their album Crest of the Knave, beating out Metallica, who were the favorites to win for their album \u2026And Justice<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-22-1989-jethro-tull-beats-metallica-for-the-first-ever-hard-rock-metal-grammy\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}