Best Male Rock Vocal Performance

25th Annual Grammy Awards • 1983

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1981 – September 30, 1982

John Cougar Mellencamp won the 1983 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance with "Hurts So Good"

Winner

Nominees

Year	Winner	Title
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