October 18: Green's girlfriend
fatally shot herself after pouring boiling
hot grits on Green while he was in the tub.
Green suffered second degree burns.
  Green hit the
Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with
"L-O-V-E (Love)."
Year-End Chart
Position: # 128
Green hit the
Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with
"Full Of Fire."
Year-End Chart
Position: # 186
 Green hit the
Top 40 with Annie Lennox with
"Put A Little Love In
Your Heart."
from the Scrooged soundtrack
ARC chart run: 40 - 33 - 27 - 22 - 17 - 14 - 11 - 8 - 7 - 19 - 37 - off
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
Green hit the Top 10 with Annie Lennox with
"Put A Little Love In Your Heart"
from the soundtrack to Scrooged.
The video for "Put A Little
Love In Your Heart" with Annie Lennox was
nominated for a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Video from a Film.
 Green won a Grammy Award for Best Soul Gospel
Vocal Performance ("As Long As We're
Together").
Green won a Grammy Award for Best Pop
Collaboration with Vocals ("Funny How
Time Slips Away" with Lyle
Lovett from the Rhythm,
Country & Blues compilation).
 Green was nominated for a Grammy Award for
Best R&B Vocal Performance -
Male
("A Change Is Gonna Come").
Ranked # 37 on VH1: Greatest
Artists of Rock & Roll (and
# 72 on Rock On The Net's
Poll).
 VH1: 100
Greatest Rock Songs included Call Me at # 67.
Rolling Stone
& MTV: 100 Greatest Pop Songs included "Let's
Stay Together" at # 77.
(available
for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3)
 VH1: 100
Greatest Albums included Call Me at # 70.
Green was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal
Performance ("Put It On Paper"
with Ann Nesby).
 Rolling Stone:
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included Greatest Hits (1975) at # 52,
I'm Still In Love With You (1972) at # 285,
and Call Me (1973) at # 289.
Rolling Stone:
The Immortals - The 100 Greatest Artists of
All Time included Green at # 65.
 Rolling Stone:
The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time included "Let's
Stay Together" at # 60.
 Green was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Traditional R&B Vocal
Performance ("I Can't Stop") and Best R&B Album (I
Can't Stop).
Green released Everything's
OK.
 Green released Lay
It Down (Billboard peak: # 9 - Rolling Stone:  ).
(available for download at  ).
Green could be heard on the
soundtrack for Sex
& The City on the track "How Can You
Mend A Broken Heart" with Joss Stone.
Green was honored at the BET
Awards with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
 Rolling Stone:
'The Greatest Singers' includes Green at # 14.
Green won 2 Grammy Awards for Best R&B Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group ("Stay With Me
(By The Sea)" with John Legend) and Best Traditional R&B Vocal
Performance ("You've Got The Love I
Need" with Anthony Hamilton),
and was nominated for Best R&B Album (Lay
It Down). Green performed at the
ceremony.
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position links lead you to the song's Top
40 chart run (from the ARC Weekly Top
40)
and LP links take you to Amazon.com for that LP (often
including track listings and sound
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