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Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce
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VETERAN rock acts David Bowie and Cream, country outlaw Merle Haggard and blues legend Robert Johnson will receive lifetime achievement Grammy Awards next month.
Also set to receive plaques will be opera singer Jessye Norman, late comedian Richard Pryor and folk group the Weavers.
As is the case with Pryor, who succumbed to heart failure a month ago, the honor comes a little late for Johnson, who died under suspicious circumstances in 1938.
The other acts have largely been snubbed by the Grammys.
Musical innovator Bowie won just one award, in 1985, while Haggard has a pair, and will compete for a prize this year.
Cream, the powerhouse rock trio consisting of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker, never received a Grammy during its short and turbulent career.
Nor did the Weavers, the 1950s quartet that paved the way for the blues-folk revival the following decade.
Pryor, with five awards, and Norman, with four, have fared better.
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences said the honors would be handed out in Los Angeles on February 7, the day before the 48th annual Grammy Awards.
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