Beatlemania will never die and the Recording Academy keeps kicking itself for not giving the Fab Four more trophies back in the day. (The band only received four when they were together and two of them were for “Sgt Pepper.”).
The casts of “The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil” and “Across the Universe” will provide the Beatle magic at this year’s telecast. Both projects are actually nominated for Grammys this year.
Feist, Alicia Keys and Brad Paisley will also perform.  Bette Midler, who will join Cirque in Vegas later this month as the replacement for Celine Dion, will be a   presenter.

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LONDON —  More than 40 years after it barred the iconic British band from playing there, Israel said it wants the surviving members of the Beatles to participate in a concert celebrating the country’s 60th birthday.

But the Israeli embassy in London denied a report that the Jewish state had apologized for its original refusal to let the Beatles perform in the country. The band had been booked to appear in 1965, but the government refused to grant the necessary permits on the ground that its music might corrupt the country’s morals.

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