Eagles win Grammy

Press, 9 March 1978, Page 15

Eagles win Grammy

The Eagles has won the Grammy award for best record of the year at a Music Awards ceremony dominated by the singer, Barbra Streisand, and the teenage newcomer, Debby Boone. The best album of the year award went to Fleet wood Mac’s “Rumours,” which topped the United States charts for 31 weeks last year. Barbra Streisand, in black satin and lace and with her curly hair a flaming red, was named best female pop star and best song writer. The latter award was for “Evergreen,” the theme song she wrote for her hit movie “A Star is Born.” The 19-year-old Debbie Boone — with her father Pat, a pop star himself in an earlier generation, watching her from the audience — was named best new artist of the year for “You Light Up My Life.” James Taylor was named best male pop star for “Handy Man.” The music from the film “Star Wars” won three awards for its composer John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra. In the country’ and western category. Crytsal Gayle, 26-year-old younger sister of country star, Loretta Lynn, was named best female countrv singer for “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,”