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16th Annual Grammy Awards

1974 music award ceremony

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ1542249 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 16th Annual Grammy Awards were held March 2, 1974, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognised accomplishments by musicians from the year 1973.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “16th Annual Grammy Awards” as 1974 music award ceremony. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around 16th, Annual and Grammy.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with 16th, Annual and Grammy providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1542249. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1974 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “16th Annual Grammy Awards” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.