But the pop legend didn't make an album last year (he was too tired from dusting his Grammys), which puts this category in play.

At a certain point the strange phenomenon of Nick Drake's postmortem career has turned into a good argument for considering him a pop legend.

The 85-year old pop legend would become the oldest nominee ever for Album of the Year.

The 85-year old pop legend was vying to become the oldest artist ever to gain an Album of the Year nom.

Tony Bennett's Duets II will give the pop legend his 11th win in this category.

Michael Jackson's estate has signed the biggest recording contract in history, nine months after the pop legend's death.

It's enough to say that the invention is another pop legend of sorts.

But there is something deeper and more disquieting in our clutching at tarnished images of pop cultural legends.

His presence, scattered throughout the hour, creates a touching sense of him as a person instead of as a newly minted pop legend.

Dusty Springfield, the 56-year-old pop legend and former convent-school girl, has been caught sneaking a smoke.