Five months after the 1975 Grammys, Elton John and Diana Ross led the level of the Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica to a futuristic golf car to organize a ridiculous value that was lost for time.

The producer-manager-impressing Don Kirshner, who had won his intelligent religion as the boss of the building of the building, director of Monkees and, later, as a large amount of dry concert by Don Kirshner’s Rock, who presented innumerable acts of list A, looking for an choice of the Grammys. He had the weight so that many superstar attended on August 9, 1975 and, with Elton and Ross aboard the hosts, in a position to play for the maximum dominant sustainable show, but without the price of the industry.

It wasn’t paintings in this way.

Although it only occurs for 3 years, the Rock Music Awards intelligently titled (which Linda Ronstadt would call the Who Care awards in an interview with Rolling Stone the following year) was a loose and glorious matter that fused the debauche of the golden balloons with the dad hocis squad. (“Good evening, everyone on television, I’m captain,” says Elton in his opening line. Ross’s response: “And I’m a general delivery!” Zing!)

John, rubbing his nose, steals through the opening piece with Ross in an involuntary hilarity teacher, revealing that the winner’s card will be displayed through a podium of blows and intermittent that looks like a robot in a science fiction film in D of the 1950s. Ah, and the value itself is not a trophy, but a medallion called Aray . . . a rocky. Elton will continue reading aloud the reference card commands (“start reading from the displacement,” he says “), and at some point a little about the history of rock music will ask:” Do we have to say this? Yes, Elton. You do. Continue.

“Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, despite everything, Rock & Roll, the maximum dominant form of music in the United States, despite everything, has its own rock prize that recognizes and greets its own stars,” explains Ross. It is a strange selection to welcome, since his music has supplanted rock instead of kissing him, however, it is Miss Diana Ross (who opened her exhibition from Central Park in 1983 like this), then Kirshner received a pass.

To be fair, other genres threatened rock as the “most dominant music” of the country. Yes, now grouped albums of Neil Young (The Night tonight), Bob Dylan (Blood on the tracks, the basement tapes), Fleetwood Mac (Fleetwood Mac) and David Bowie (Young America) had been published in recent months, and were born to run only in two weeks. But the goalkeepers of the major, white and white music industry saw more and more disc, a sound that was born from basically populated clubs through black, Latin, homosexual and other marginalized participants, as a possible dominant threat. At the beginning of that year, the Grammys housed with Williams had given large-scale trophies to Olivia Newton-John, Marvin Hamlisch and Barbra Streisand. The first Ramones album still at 8 months. You see where you are going.

But instead of kissing other sounds, the music offers touched the victim, opting to self -discuss for 90 minutes in a great scene. (In a twisted turn of the plot, “Jive Talkin”, the song that would attend catapult the bees in the disco and the domination of the world, was the number one song in the country on the night of prices). However, praise exhibition discovered time for Kiki Dee, the Manhattan and Tony Orlando and Dawn movement to play or present. For those who are at the point of Schlock, we greet you.

It becomes incredibly more strange from there. Ann-Margaret and Roger Daltrey, selling the infallible film less than Tommy, were released in what looks like a rich toy truck for children. (Tommy will win the most productive rock movie or a theatrical presentation later at night in a sign of what we are dealing with here). Dear calls an “old cake” before giving him the coveted value (??) Rock Personality of the year. Alice Cooper looks like a porn star that plays a policeman. Keith Moon, in the past known tonight to terrorize her petrified co-chapter Olivia Newton-John, is making a joke about having sex with a Spacked Joe Walsh while the camera cuts Aarray. She Fitzgerald? Chuck Berry, wearing a mustache that results from consulting with a probation agent every month, becomes the first user, and one of the last, anything called the Rock Music Hall of Fame (not being with the Rock & Roll Fame Hall of Fame).

However, there is an elegant moment before the show continues to decrease: Stevie Wonder, just out of an album of the Grammy year to forming the first final, asks the public to take a break from Break and Jazz Great canyon, who died before this day. Elegance will not last.

Writing for the New York Times, critic John Leonard described the “Grab Bag” show. “Miss Ross seemed vaguely Egyptian, perhaps because her hair had been formed in a pyramid. It also seemed vague, point, as if she had eaten astonishment before the program,” he wrote. “Everything ended in an hour and a half, which would be commendable without the fact that it was completed by leaving aside the maximum music. The spectators may have been saved from the appearance of Sonny or Cher, or both, to listen to more music than the program apparently sought to honor. “

Ross would return next year to organize the exhibition throughout Cooper and awkwardly a public service prize to Lynyrd Skynyrd. The exhibition will take place for one more year, in 1977, before adjusting a difficult note to understand in the history of the rock. Unfortunately, we will never have rock music costs again, but we will have photographs of Olivia Newton-John saying desperately with his eyes: “Please. ” Someone. Loge Keith Moon from me away. “