
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 2, 1994                   TAG: 9403070147
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 1   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Ira Robbins Newsday
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                 LENGTH: Short

WHAT'S IT WORTH?

The ultimate peer recognition for a musical aritst, that little Gramophone statuette - handed over live before a worldwide television audience numbering in the low zillions - is of inestimable value. Grousing about the bizarre category decicions and erratic biases of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences aside, anyone whose record or song or arrangement or performance or production gets chosen by nearly 9,000 music industry professoinals as the year's best can't possibly resist the exalted feeling that such a distinction conveys.

"Being someone who has many questions about the Grammy," laughs Anthony DeCurtis, the Rolling Stone editor whose liner notes for the Eric Clapton "Crossroads" box took Grammy honors in 1988, "did not diminsh by one iota my desire to win it."

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