Sting has hit back at a bitter attack from fellow musician Rod Stewart by offering one of his numerous Grammy awards to the Scottish rock star.

Stewart, 58, and currently riding high in the British album charts, complained that he had been consistently passed over by the music industry's premier awards in favour of rivals such as 52-year-old Sting.

"They tend not to give it to the British unless you're Sting. The sun shines out of his arse -- a pure jazz musician, Mr Serious who helps the Indians," Stewart said in an interview with British magazine Radio Times last week.

"It's astounding I've never won one," he told a news conference.

Sting responded generously.