Doors, Baez, Callas to receive honorary Grammys

The Doors

Other honourees include folk singer Joan Baez, soul musicians Booker T. & the MG's, and late country music icon Bob Wills. The statuettes will be handed out during a ceremony leading up to the main Grammy Awards, which take place in Los Angeles on February 11.

The honorary awards generally allow organisers of the music industry's most prestigious event to give belated recognition to acts who were snubbed during their heyday. The only act to win a competitive Grammy was Booker T. & the MG's, in 1995. Baez has received six nominations, but no trophies.

The honours are too late for some recipients. Doors singer Jim Morrison died in 1971, the Gra-teful Dead's Jerry Garcia in 1995, Callas in 1977, and Wills in 1975.