Best Male Rock Vocal Performance

23rd Annual Grammy Awards • 1981

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1979 and Aug 30, 1980

Billy Joel won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance with "Glass Houses"

Winners & Nominees 1981

Winner
Nominees

Previous Winners

Year Winner Work
2004 Dave Matthews Gravedigger All Nominees
2003 Bruce Springsteen The Rising All Nominees
2002 Lenny Kravitz Dig In All Nominees
2001 Lenny Kravitz Again All Nominees
2000 Lenny Kravitz American Woman All Nominees
1999 Lenny Kravitz Fly Away All Nominees
1998 Bob Dylan Cold Irons Bound All Nominees
1997 Beck Where It's At All Nominees
1996 Tom Petty You Don't Know How It Feels All Nominees
1995 Bruce Springsteen Streets Of Philadelphia All Nominees
1994 Meat Loaf I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) All Nominees
1993 Eric Clapton Unplugged All Nominees
1991 Eric Clapton Bad Love All Nominees
1990 Don Henley The End Of The Innocence All Nominees
1989 Robert Palmer Simply Irresistible All Nominees
1988 Bruce Springsteen Tunnel Of Love All Nominees
1987 Robert Palmer Addicted To Love All Nominees
1986 Don Henley The Boys Of Summer All Nominees
1985 Bruce Springsteen Dancing In The Dark All Nominees
1984 Michael Jackson Beat It All Nominees
1983 John Mellencamp Hurts So Good All Nominees
1982 Rick Springfield Jessie's Girl All Nominees
1981 Billy Joel Glass Houses All Nominees
1980 Bob Dylan Gotta Serve Somebody All Nominees
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