{"id":31509,"date":"2025-02-24T18:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-24-1982-john-lennon-yoko-onos-double-fantasy-wins-grammy-for-album-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T18:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:02:43","slug":"on-this-day-feb-24-1982-john-lennon-yoko-onos-double-fantasy-wins-grammy-for-album-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-24-1982-john-lennon-yoko-onos-double-fantasy-wins-grammy-for-album-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Feb. 24, 1982: John Lennon &amp; Yoko Ono\u2019s &#8216;Double Fantasy&#8217; wins Grammy for album of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-24\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, Feb. 24, 1982\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Lennon<\/strong> and <strong>Yoko Ono<\/strong> won album of the year at the 24th annual Grammy Awards, held in Los Angeles. The pair won the award for <em>Double Fantasy<\/em>, the final album Lennon recorded before his death in December 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Police<\/strong> took home two awards that evening, best rock vocal performance by a duo or group for \u201cDon\u2019t Stand So Close to Me\u201d and best rock instrumental for \u201cBehind the Camera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other winners included <strong>Pat Benatar<\/strong>, for best female rock vocal performance for \u201cFire and Ice,\u201d <strong>Rick<\/strong> <strong>Springfield<\/strong>, for best male rock vocal performance for &#8220;Jesse&#8217;s Girl&#8221; and the track \u201cBette Davis Eyes,\u201d by <strong>Kim Carnes<\/strong>, which took home both song and record of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Feb. 24, 1982\u2026 John Lennon and Yoko Ono won album of the year at the 24th annual Grammy Awards, held in Los Angeles. The pair won the award for Double Fantasy, the final album Lennon recorded before his death in December 1980. The Police took home two<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-24-1982-john-lennon-yoko-onos-double-fantasy-wins-grammy-for-album-of-the-year\/\">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\/31509"}],"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=31509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}