Jagger will perform with soul singer Raphael Saadiq
during the 53rd annual Grammy Awards, which will air live on CBS from the
Staples Center in Los Angeles (8 p.m. EST, 0100 GMT). "We're thrilled,
delighted, excited and very much looking forward to Mick doing his debut on the
Grammy stage," said Neil Portnow, president and CEO of the Recording
Academy.
"It's extraordinary to many of us that the fact is, this will be
the first time; he has never performed on the Grammy stage." This won't be
Jagger's first appearance on a Grammy telecast. In 1986, the Rolling Stones
were given a lifetime achievement award by Eric Clapton, and they performed on
the show by satellite. "We did a remote from London, and it was at least three
o'clock there," said show producer Ken Ehrlich.
