Grammys 2025: The Best, Worst, and Most WTF Moments

We know it’s hard fitting in every musician or industry legend we lost since the last Grammys, and props to the Grammys for remembering plenty of legends who passed away in the past year (Kris Kristofferson, Cissy Houston, Dickey Betts, JD Souther, Phil Lesh, Sergio Mendes, Duke Fakir, Garth Hudson, and sadly so many more). But it was still sad to see that the memorial list didn’t have room for heroes of power pop (Greg Kihn), hip-hop (Ka, OG Maco), indie rock (the Replacements’ Slim Dunlap, the Chills’ Martin Phillipps, Olivia Tremor Control’s W. Cullen Hart), classic rock (Iron Butterfly’s Doug Ingle, Moby Grape’s Jerry Miller), rap metal (Crazy Town’s Shifty Shellshock), folk (Happy Traum, Bernice Reagon, Spider John Koerner), Indian classical music (Zakir Hussain), singer-songwriterdom (Dave Loggins, Libby Titus, Mike Brewer of Brewer & Shipley), doo-wop (the Zodiacs’  Maurice Williams), alt-rock (World Party’s Karl Wallinger), metal (Great White’s Jack Russell), blues (the Electric Flag’s Nick Gravenites), prog (King Crimson lyricist Pete Sinfield), and the production world (Shel Talmy). They were missed.