Rock
- Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female
- Pat Benatar for "Love Is a Battlefield"
- Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male
- Michael Jackson for "Beat It"
- Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
- The Police for Synchronicity
- Best Rock Instrumental Performance
- Sting for "Brimstone and Treacle"
Read more about this topic: 1984 Grammy Awards
Famous quotes containing the word rock:
“I know it’s only rock ‘n’ roll but I like it.”
—Mick Jagger (b. 1943)
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)
“When we were at school we were taught to sing the songs of the Europeans. How many of us were taught the songs of the Wanyamwezi or of the Wahehe? Many of us have learnt to dance the rumba, or the cha cha, to rock and roll and to twist and even to dance the waltz and foxtrot. But how many of us can dance, or have even heard of the gombe sugu, the mangala, nyang’umumi, kiduo, or lele mama?”
—Julius K. Nyerere (b. 1922)