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// Five Grammy Awards for U2

Posted by u2boy on February 09, 2006 | Permanent link |

With five Grammys U2 were the big winners at last evening's Grammy Awards. They won all categories in which they were nominated, just like last year.

Here's what they won:

Album of the Year
'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'
Song of the Year
'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own'
Best rock album
'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'
Best rock song
'City of Blinding Lights'
Best rock performance by a duo or group with vocal
'Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own'

U2 win five Grammys

Steve Lillywhite (who produced 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb') also went home with a Grammy, he won 'Producer Of The Year (Non-Classical)' for his work with U2 and American singer Jason Mraz.

It's the second time U2 wins the prestigious Album of the Year award, in 1988 they also won it for 'The Johua Tree'. With a total of twenty one Grammy Awards U2 now rank 6th on the list of all-time Grammy winners.

But U2 didn't come just to pick up their awards, they performed too. They played two songs: a short and energetic version of 'Vertigo', and Mary J. Blige joined them to perform 'One'.

Upon accepting the awards for 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own' Bono paid tribute to his father:

How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb is an odd title for album. We accept that. Actually I was talking about my father Bob. He was the atomic bomb in question and when he died, set off kind of a chain reaction in me, and I've been shoutin' about him and giving off about him and complaining about him, screaming about him, for the last few years. And maybe, maybe, tonight is the time to stop.

It's really a great, great moment for me personally. I wanna thank my father Bob for giving me the voice and a bit of attitude to use it.

Edge was also quite happy: