Puff Daddy's ''I'll Be Missing You,'' with Faith Evans, was named best rap performance by a duo or group the album that includes it, ''No Way Out,'' was named best rap album. Two rap awards were won by Sean (Puffy) Combs, a k a Puff Daddy, who dominated the pop charts in 1997 as a producer, rapper, songwriter and mixer. ''Sooner or later, you get old enough to win a Grammy,'' Mr. Dylan was named best male rock vocalist for ''Cold Irons Bound.'' John Fogerty, who led Creedence Clearwater Revival in the 1960's, won his first Grammy his ''Blue Moon Swamp'' was named best rock album. ''Time Out of Mind'' was also named best contemporary folk album, and Mr. ''Maybe next year we'll set up a mosh pit or something,'' said Michael Greene, the president of the recording academy. And before Shawn Colvin could accept her song-of-the-year award, Ol' Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan seized a microphone to say that the Wu-Tang Clan was better than Puff Daddy, who won in the rap album category. Dylan with flailing arms until he was removed. He had the words ''Soy Bomb'' painted on his bare chest and danced next to Mr. Dylan sang ''Love Sick,'' a downtown performance artist named Michael Portnoy, who said he was hired by the producers as one of 60 actors to provide a ''good vibe'' onstage with Mr. The show, broadcast by CBS from Radio City Music Hall with Kelsey Grammer as host, suffered some of the pitfalls of live television, including stage crashers. Shawn Colvin's ''Sunny Came Home,'' a ballad about a woman who leaves home with her children and burns down her house, was named record of the year (an award for a single) and song of the year (a songwriter's award). In the words of the immortal Robert Johnson, the stuff we got'll bust your brains out. Dylan reminisced about seeing Buddy Holly perform, adding: ''I know he was with us all the time we were making this record in some kind of way. ''We didn't know what we had when we did it, but we did it anyway.'' ''We got a particular type of sound on this record which you don't get every day,'' said a smiling Mr. Dylan's first major Grammy Award on his own. He has shared some awards and won in 1980 for best male rock vocalist and in 1995 for traditional folk album with ''World Gone Wrong.'' In 1991, the recording academy gave him a Lifetime Achievement prize, a noncompetitive award.īut the album-of-the-year award for 1998 is Mr. Dylan's pioneering albums in the 1960's were not recognized by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which chooses the Grammy Awards. ''Time Out of Mind'' has been widely hailed as Bob Dylan's best album in two decades. The rock category was dominated by Jakob Dylan and his own band, the Wallflowers, who won awards for best rock performance by a duo or group and best rock song for their hit ''One Headlight.'' Dylan's album ''Time Out of Mind'' brought him three Grammys, including album of the year. Back in the 1960's, Bob Dylan sang, ''My name it is nothing.'' But at the 40th annual Grammy Awards ceremony, the Dylan name was a guaranteed winner.
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