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Top 10 Grammys Shockers
From stage crashers to weird duets, a countdown of the 10 most surprising moments in Grammy history.
9 Jethro Tull's Best Hard Rock Performance?, 1989

Booking Metallica to play their hit "One" during the ceremony, it seemed that even the Grammy broadcast producers were betting that the popular metal band would win the inaugural Best Hard Rock Metal Performance award in 1989. In an upset discussed for years afterward, Hobbity fantasy-rockers Jethro Tull, a band noted for flute solos, got the trophy. This win was such a longshot that not only did Tull skip the ceremony altogether, but the win was roundly booed when presenters Alice Cooper and Lita Ford announced it.



Text by Mariel Concepcion and Jessica Letkemann.


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