Famed Peter Asher (of 60s chart-topping duo Peter & Gordon), has just been given a special award at this year’s Grammy Awards…
Here Peter and Victoria are being interviewed by Grammys live Global. (Photo credit : Peter Asher)
However, Asher is no stranger to the ceremony. In this year’s 66th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, the singer, guitarist and producer picked up his fifth GRAMMY.
Peter & Gordon
Along with his friend Gordon Waller, the British duo performed as Peter & Gordon and had several hits during the 60’s including the John Lennon/Paul McCartney-penned No. 1 “A World Without Love.”
He then served as head of A&R for the Beatles’ Apple Records label where he signed James Taylor and produced the GRAMMY winner’s 1968 self-titled debut. Asher would ultimately become a three-time GRAMMY winner for his work as a producer and the latest award brings that tally to five.
In an interview at the awards, he told Steve Hochman, “When I started discovering other music, I fell in love with American folk music,” he says. “Woody Guthrie is [a] great example. And American jazz — I’m equally a fan of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, [and] Max Roach as I am of Woody and Lead Belly.
The Awards also saw the first appearance of Joni Mitchell as well as live performances from the likes of Dua Lipa and Annie Lennox.
Peter Asher walked the red carpet at the Grammy Awards this evening with his daughter Victoria, celebrating after being given the Trustees Award yesterday. In the past, the Trustees Award, given for a lifetime of achievement and excellence in the world of music, has recognised The Beatles, Berry Gordy. Lou Adler, Goffin and King, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Thomas Edison, Leonard and Phil Chess, Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertugen, and more.