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(CBS) Over the past 13 years, U2 and Bono have won six Grammys. They have won
for their songs, their videos, their performances, and for entire albums. This
year U2 has once again done quite well: It has been nominated for three Grammys.
Find out more about their past awards, and this year's nominations. And read
some quotes about their Grammy winners.
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2000 (Nominations)
Record of the Year: Beautiful Day
Song of the Year: "Beautiful Day," from All That You Can't Leave Behind
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal: "Beautiful Day,"
from All That You Can't Leave Behind
"Singles are what makes rock sharp, and we've not been great at singles.
I can't tell you how excited we feel, we've been around for a while and to hear
this song on the radio, it feels very special."
- Bono the day Beautiful Day became the No. 1 single in the U.K.
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1994
Music Video
Best Music Video, Long Form
"Zoo TV-Live From Sydney"
Zooropa was initially intended to be an EP, but it became a full-fledged album. With 10 tracks recorded in six weeks, the fastest U2 album ever. U2 followed up the album with the band's concert tour, "Zoo-TV."
"Riding the wave of its audacious 1991 album, Achtung Baby, the group
has spent the past 15 months hop-scotching the globe
with the Zoo TV tour, a futuristic, high-voltage extravaganza that has packed
stadiums from Berlin to Los Angeles."
- Guy Garcia in Time
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1993
Alternative
Best Alternative Music Album
Zooropa
"I think Zooropa achieves a new language for Bono to use - a language
that's more his own, that he feels more comfortable with. And musically, I think,
we've defined, or found, a sound that we're entitled to use...It's a record
deep with mystery for me."
- band member Adam Clayton
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1992
Rock
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal
Achtung Baby
"These Irishmen have proven that the same penchant for epic musical and
verbal gestures that leads many artists to self-parody can, in more inspired
hands, fuel the unforgettable fire that defines great rock & roll."
- writer Elysa Gardner, for Rolling Stone
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1988
Best Performance Music Video
"Where the Streets Have No Name"
"An interesting story that someone told me once is that in Belfast, by
what street someone lives on you can tell not only their religion but tell how
much money they're making - literally by which side of the road they live on,
because the further up the hill the more expensive the houses become. You can
almost tell what the people are earning by the name of the street they live
on and what side ot that street they live on."
- Bono
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1988
Rock
Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal
"Desire"
"What I like about "Desire" is that if there's ever been a cool
No. 1 to have in the U.K., that's it....It's a rock 'n' roll record - in no
way is it a pop song."
- band member Edge
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1987
General
Album of the Year
The Joshua Tree
"It could have gone off in a number of different directions. We wanted
the idea of a one-piece record, not a side-one, side-two thing."
- Bono