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Pop? — but he reportedly submitted for rap song and melodic rap performance, though it ended in a blank for the rising singer.

U2 frontman Bono wrote: "Where he is this evening... the music will be a little more melodic, a little more interesting harmonically and certainly more rhythmic... and yes, louder."

Original material began to emerge — songs that were melodic and oblique in equal measure, with arpeggiated guitar hooks and Stipe’s lyrics drifting in and out of focus.

While learning to play bass in the Warlocks, Lesh developed an elastic, melodic style that became as much a Dead signature as Garcia’s winding guitar leads.

The 33-year-old, from Chicago, has received four Grammy Award nominations, winning the prize for best melodic rap performance in February for All My Life, featuring J Cole.