Best Live Act:
1 Elvis Costello
2 Atlanta Rhythm Section
3 Bruce Spnngstren
Best Live Act
1 Foreigner
2 Led Zeppelin
3 Dwight Twilley Band
Best Male Vocalist
1 Mick Jagger
2 Paul Simon
Best Female Vocalist
1 Linda Thompson
2 Linda Ronstadt
3 Deborah Harry if114•ndie
Best Rhythm and Blue.
%et Southside Johnny
2 Stevie Wonder
3 Parliament-Funkadelic
Best single:
"Short People" Randy Newman
'Say Goodbye to HoII) wand' Ronnie Spector
"Rock 'N Roll Never Forgets ' Bob Seger
"God Save the Queen'* The Sex Pistols
Best Producer:
1 George Martin 2 Alan Parsons 3 Dave Edmunds
Best SonlgMriler
I Elvis Costello 2 Kay Davies 3 Dwight Twilley
Critic tbe Year: 1. Steve Sands tStereo Re-view 1 2. Grid Marcus 3, Nick Kent 1New Musical Express and ex-Sex Pistol,
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Worst Single of the Year:
1 ' Black Betty" Ram Jam 2 "You Light 1 p M), Life Debby Boone 3 "11c3ven on the Seventh Floor'. {Paul Nicholas
Hato of the Year: 1. Lewis Grizzard isports Writer Atlanta Constitution Lacy( Martin 3. Woody Alien
Heroine of the 'Year: 1. The Queen of England 2. Gilds Rodney
Fad of I hr 1 ea' 1 Punk ■ N4'A Vta%e. Ruck
Ditarpointortent of the V•ar : 1, No Beatles reunion 2. No Springstern album 3. No Who a !bum 4 Atlantas
Bock Cliche .f the ear "The best thing since the Beatles
Best Lyric of the Year: 1. "God save the Queen She ain't no human brut"' Sex Pistols "God Save the Queen 2 You know the word that I can't say- I'm trying to wooh my baby." Dwight Twilley Band "Trying to Find My Bah)"
3 YOU can see those pictures in any magazine But what's the use of looktn' when you don I kooks, what they mean •• Eli is tostello 'Mystery dance
4 Come back baby—Rock 'n' roll never forgets " Bob Seger ••Rock 'N Roll Never Forgets**
Want 1.yrk of the Year: 1 "1113‘k Betty had a child-Blam-da•tam-Damn thing gone wild--Blam-da-lam Ram Jam Black Betty**
- We of the Year: 1 S'everything all right m the critics's section'!" Mick Jagger 2 "I won't be around to witness my artistic decline I'll kill myself first " Elvis Ols-ten(► 3 **Yowl' Darryl Rhoades 4 "I'd rather hair a P►ttle to front of me than a frontal lobotomy." Toni Baits
A Special Award: Much thanks to Rich Floyd for opening the Capri in Atlanta i .ome of 1S77.‘ more obscure musical notes plus a fel► important ones
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