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David Bowie Competing for Multiple Honors at This Sunday’s Grammys; Dylan, Gabriel Also Among Nominees

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Credit: Jimmy KingThe 59th Annual Grammy Awards take place on Sunday, and among the artists who will compete for multiple honors at the ceremony is the late David Bowie. The influential rocker’s final studio album, Blackstar, has been nominated for the Best Alternative Album, while the title track garnered Bowie nods the Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song categories.

Blackstar also is up for the Best Recording Package and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical honors.

Among the other veteran rock artists competing for Grammy trophies this year are Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Metallica, Megadeth and Iggy Pop. Dylan’s Fallen Angels is vying for the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album prize; Gabriel is up for Best Song Written for Visual Media for “The Veil,” from the movie Snowden; Metallica is in the running for the Best Rock Song award, for “Hardwired”; Megadeth’s “Dystopia” received a nod for Best Metal Performance; and Pop scored a nomination for Best Alternative Music Album for Post Pop Depression.

Meanwhile, Patti Smith and Elvis Costello both have been nominated in a nonmusical category, Best Spoken Word Album, for the audio books to their respective memoirs M Train and Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink.

The Beatles also have a shot at a Grammy this year, sort of: Ron Howard‘s documentary about the Fab Four, Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years, has been nominated for Best Music Film.

The 59th Annual Grammy Awards, hosted by James Corden, air live on CBS at 8 p.m. ET. Meanwhile, the Premiere Ceremony — during which about 70 awards will be handed out prior to the Grammy telecast — begins at 3:30 p.m. ET, and can be viewed online at Grammy Live.

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