Daft Punk sweep Grammys with five wins
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French electro duo Daft Punk took home five trophies, including Album of the Year, at the 56th Grammy Awards held inside the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday. [ Full 56th Grammy winners list ]
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French electro duo Daft Punk took home five trophies, including Album of the Year, at the 56th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, Jan. 26, 2014. [GRAMMY.com] |
The robot-style helmeted French duo took home five awards, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, Best Dance/Electronica Album and Best Engineered Album (Non-classical). The performance of their phenomenal hit "Get Lucky" with legendary Stevie Wonder and Pharrell Williams got all those attending up and dancing and formed one of the biggest highlights of the night.
It is the first time, and a landmark, in Grammy history for an electronica music act to win this many awards, including those in the general genre. Williams, their producer, took home four as well, including one for Producer of the Year.
Hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis followed closely with four wins, including Best New Artist, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song for "Thrift Shop," and Best Rap Album for "The Heist."
Macklemore and Lewis also staged the night's most powerful and tearful moment with an appearance by Madonna, when 33 couples were married as the Seattle duo performed "Same Love," a moving rap defense of gay rights, celebrating same-sex equality. The mass wedding was presided over by Queen Latifah.
Daft Punk praised the mass wedding of gay and heterosexual couples as "fantastic" in a message read out by their songwriter, Paul Williams, who shared the award for Album of the Year for "Random Access Memories" with the duo.
"What they want me to say is that the most elegant and classy the Grammys have ever been, is the moment when we... saw all those wonderful marriages and that same love," he said.
New Zealand teen songstress Lorde won the other big prize of the night -- Song of the Year -- for her big hit "Royals." She also took home Best Pop Solo Performance.
Justin Timberlake won three awards, including Best Music Video, for which Jay-Z shared the credit. Jay-Z had the most nominations with nine in total, followed by California hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Lewis, Justin Timberlake and Williams with seven each.
Other winners included Bruno Mars, who won Best Pop Vocal Album for his second studio album "Unorthodox Jukebox;" Led Zeppelin, whose live album documenting the 2007 reunion in London won Best Rock Album; and Paul McCartney, who played his new song "Queenie Eye" with a little help from his former band mate Ringo Starr on the drums, while John Lennon and George Harrison's widows also joined the show, in a rare Beatles "family reunion."
The Grammys, credited as "Music's Biggest Night," kicked off with a sexy performance of "Drunk in Love" by the music industry's most powerful couple Beyonce and Jay Z. This was her first public performance since her surprise self-titled album in December on iTunes, a game-changer in the music industry for its stealth release.
Although Taylor Swift and Katy Perry left empty-handed, Swift gave an energetic rendition of "All Too Well" on the piano and Katy Perry staged a spectacular and visually magical performance of "Dark Horse." Rockers Imagine Dragons collaborated with Lamar played a. electric mash-up of their hits "Radioactive" and "M.A.A.D. City."
Legendary heavy metal band Metallica collaborated with acclaimed Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who was appointed as Grammy Cultural Ambassador to China by Neil Portnow, president of The Recording Academy, to present a eye-popping performance of "One."
British songstress Adele -- who swept the Grammys top prizes in 2012 – also shared a prize Sunday, for Best Song Written for Visual Media for the James Bond movie "Skyfall," together with songwriter Paul Epworth.
The three-and-a-half-hour show at Staples Center ended with a rock super-group featuring Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham.
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