Lifetime Grammy for Led Zeppelin

1960s legends Led Zeppelin will receive lifetime achievement Grammy. Besides Zeppelin, rock legend Joplin amd Eddy Arnold will also be honoured for their contribution to music.

1960s legends Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin will receive lifetime achievement Grammys, the Recording Academy announced on Tuesday.

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The British band Led Zeppelin, founded by guitarist Jimmy Page, as well as blues and rock legend Joplin will be honoured along with early rocker Jerry Lee Lewis, 70, and composer and pianist Jelly Roll Morton, who died in 1941.

Other honourees will include Eddy Arnold, Art Blakey, the original members of the Carter Family, Morton Gould, Pinetop Perkins and the Staple Singers, said the academy, which grants the Grammys.

The Lifetime Achievement Award "honours lifelong artistic contributions to the recording medium," the academy said.

Hoagy Carmichael, Don Cornelius, Alfred Lion, and Billy Taylor will be honored with the Academy Trustees Award, which "recognizes outstanding contributions to the industry in a non-performing capacity."

Phil Ramone and JBL Professional were named recipients of the Technical Grammy Award.

The awards will be acknowledged at the presentation of the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, at Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 13.