An all-star lineup of rockers will honor Ozzy Osbourne with a special tribute at the Grammys on Sunday

Ozzy Osbourne will be honored at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night with a special performance featuring some of the biggest names in rock.

Guns N’ Roses members Slash and Duff McKagan will join forces with Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, producer Andrew Watt and singer Post Malone in what’s sure to be one of the night’s loudest and most emotional performances.

All of the musicians have ties to Osbourne, who died in July at the age of 76. Besides each being vocal admirers of the Prince of Darkness, Slash, McKagan, Smith and Watt all took part in the triumphant Back to the Beginning concert last year. Watt worked extensively with Ozzy in his final years, helming 2020’s Ordinary Man and 2022’s Patient Number 9. Meanwhile, Malone collaborated with Osbourne on the 2019 hit “Take What You Want.”

The Ozzy Grammy tribute will reportedly be part of a broader in memoriam segment planned for Sunday’s ceremony.

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Lauren Hill will pay tribute to two different R&B icons at the Grammys with performances honoring both D’Angelo and Roberta Flack. Reba McEntire, Brandy Clark and Lukas Nelson will also take part in the in memoriam segment. The Beach Boys‘ Brian Wilson, Sly Stone and Grateful Dead‘s Bob Weir are among the other late musicians who are expected to be honored during the segment.

Elsewhere in the night, pop star Sabrina Carpenter, hip hop legends Clipse and Pharrell Williams, and singer Justin Bieber will also perform.

The Grammy Awards take place Sunday night at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The ceremony will be broadcast live at 8PM ET / 5PM PT via CBS and Paramount Plus.

Why Haven’t These Acts Ever Won a Grammy?

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Queen

Queen have received a handful of nominations over the years, including for “Bohemian Rhapsody” in 1976 and again in 1980 for “Another One Bites the Dust.” Despite their status as one of rock’s greatest acts, they have zero wins to show for it, though the band did receive an honorary Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys in 2018.

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The Who

It’s not like Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend’s trophy cases are empty. The Who won a Lifetime Achievement Award, the Grammy’s consolation prize, in 2001, and were also honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2008. Still, you’d think Tommy or Who’s Next might have won something, you know?

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The Kinks

They helped spark the British Invasion in the ’60s, then remade themselves into album-rock geniuses and, later still, muscular arena rockers. The Grammys responded to the Kinks with a big “meh.” They haven’t just been shut out – the Kinks have never even been nominated.

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Chuck Berry

Like many of the legends on this list, Chuck Berry was eventually given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. But that came in 1984, decades after Berry played a key role in the birth of rock ‘n’ roll. Where were the accolades back then?

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Journey

You’ve think “Don’t Stop Believin'” won something, right? In fact, Journey didn’t receive any Grammy recognition until getting back together with the esrtwhile Steve Perry in the ’90s. They lost that year to the Beatles, who released “Free As a Bird” after a partial reunion of their own.