“I want to thank God for this award,” he said, “but I also want to thank him mostly for putting this beautiful light of young lady in my life. I also want to tell [their daughter] Blue, ‘Look — Daddy got a gold sippy cup.” As he turned the Grammy statuette on its side.
Going into Sunday night’s ceremony, Jay Z led the field with nine nominations, although none were in the top general categories of record, song or album of the year. And three of the key rap Grammys went to Seattle-based duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, who started early to assemble an imposing win of four Grammys.
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Another new kid in town trumped the veterans when the Grammy for pop solo performance was bestowed on 17-year-old New Zealand singer Lorde for her breakthrough single, “Royals,” over recordings by Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake and Sara Bareilles.
“This is the one thing I did not expect the most about tonight,” the dark-eyed singer and songwriter with flowing curly black hair said from the stage after picking up the award. “Mostly to Bruno, to Katy, to Justin, to Sara: I’ve been so inspired by all of your vocal work at some point in my life, so thank you so much.”
The Grammy Awards also love Beatles, an adage that proved true again early in Sunday’s telecast when the trophy for rock song went to “Cut Me Some Slack,” the jam session between Paul McCartney and Nirvana band members Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and adjunct touring member Pat Smear that turned into a song.
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“We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for Paul and for Ringo,” Grohl said in accepting the award. “This song was two hours in my studio. I called up Paul and said, ‘Hey, man, do you want to come jam with some friends of mine? He came over, we knocked this out in a couple of hours, and to me, that’s what rock ‘n’ roll is all about.”
McCartney stepped to the mike and added, “He said, ‘Do you want to come over and do a jam on ‘Long Tall Sally?’ I said, ‘No, we’ve been there, done that; we should make something up, and that’s what this is.”
Earlier in the day, in the pre-telecast ceremony, McCartney added another Grammy to his mantle with the award of boxed or special limited-edition release for the deluxe edition reissue of his “Wings Over America” live album documenting his first solo tour of the U.S. in 1976.
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For Ringo Starr’s performance, he sang his 1973 hit “Photograph” while a montage of photos he took during his years as a Beatle were displayed on giant screens behind him. The song about a love that ended took on another dimension as images of the late John Lennon and George Harrison appeared while he sang “all I’ve got is a photograph, and I realize you’re not coming back anymore.”
Helmeted French duo Daft Punk got the Grammy Awards ceremony audience atwitter Sunday night when they were named winners of the duo or group pop performance for their single “Get Lucky” with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
Williams gave the acceptance speech, saying, “Dude, on behalf of the robots, I’d like to say, man, thank you, thank you, thank you. There’s a lot of great, like, nominees, and we’re honored to be considered. Of course, they want to thank their families. And of course, man, the incredible Nile and everybody that worked on the album.”
The first award of the 56th Grammy Awards telecast was the new artist honor presented to hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, who were chosen by voters over Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar, country singer and songwriter Kacey Musgraves, British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and English dubstep producer-artist James Blake.
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“First and foremost, I want to thank our fans, the people that got on us on this stage,” rapper Macklemore, whose real name is Ben Haggerty, said in accepting with producer Lewis. “Before there was any media, before there was any buzz … it spread organically through them, and without them, there would be no us.”
It added to what even at the outset was a huge night for Macklemore and Lewis given the three Grammys they picked up in the afternoon ceremony, where the vast majority of awards were announced. They won for rap song, performance and album.
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Relative newcomers did exceptionally well in those fields, with Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, 17-year-old New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde and country newcomer Kacey Musgraves piling up 22 nominations collectively in the top four categories, also including new artist nods.
The big surprise this year at that level probably was Sara Bareilles nomination for album of the year for her “The Blessed Unrest” album and the absence of Justin Timberlake’s widely praised return to music “The 20/20 Collection.”
Because the Grammy Awards show is even more about surprise collaborative live performances, the 3 1/2-hour telecast from Staples Center downtown was being watched for pairings of Lamar and rock band Imagine Dragons, dance-electronica group Daft Punk’s teaming with celebrated R&B-rock-soul singer, songwriter, composer instrumentalist Stevie Wonder.
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The opening performance by Beyonce of her “Drunk In Love,” with hubby Jay Z providing the midsong rap, was bleeped three times by network censors for expletives in the lyrics of her ode to steamy married sex.
The Beatles, always a big draw at Grammy time, figure prominently in this year’s show with scheduled performances by both surviving members of the Fab Four, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Their Grammy performance will foreshadow a CBS special being taped Monday night next door at the L.A. Convention Center, “The Night That Changed America: The Grammys Salute the Beatles,” on the 50th anniversary of the group’s U.S. live television debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Feb. 9, 1964.
CBS will air the show on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m., and in addition to performances by McCartney and Starr, both separately and together, it will feature performances by Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, John Mayer and Keith Urban, Pharrell Williams, Dhani Harrison, Joe Walsh, Gary Clarke, Jr., Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart reunited as the Eurythmics, Maroon 5 and performers from the Cirque du Soleil Beatles show in Las Vegas, “Love.”
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The telecast will include the announcement of 10 award winners and feature 22 live musical performances.
Among the vast majority of the remaining 72 categories announced before the pre-telecast, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis led with three awards, rap performance and rap song for their runaway hit single “Thrift Shop” and rap album for their “The Heist” CD.
Daft Punk collected the dance/electronica album award for “Random Access Memories,” in the running for overall album of the year, while Las Vegas rock collective Imagine Dragons took the rock performance award for its single “Radioactive,” which also is up for record of the year.
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Justin Timberlake won an early award as one of the four co-writers of “Pusher Love Girl,” the track from his “The 20/20 Experience” album given the R&B song Grammy. Rihanna’s “Unapologetic” took the urban contemporary album trophy, her seventh career win.
Even without a new album in release last year, British soul singer-songwriter Adele took her 10th Grammy in winning for a song written for visual media for “Skyfall,” her titular theme song to the James Bond film she wrote with Paul Epworth.
Grammy favorite Alicia Keys took her 15th statuette as her “Girl on Fire” album topped efforts by Faith Evans, John Legend, Chrisette Michelle and TGT in the R&B album category.
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Among the pre-telecast country awards distributed, former Hootie & the Blowfish front man Darius Rucker took his first solo Grammy — Hootie won two in 1995 — for country solo performance of his single “Wagon Wheel,” the Civil Wars pulled off what has to be considered an upset over efforts from Kelly Clarkson & Vince Gill, Little Big Town, Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift & Keith Urban and Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers for duo or group performance on their track “From This Valley.”
The biggest breakout success of 2013, Kacey Musgraves’ “Same Trailer Different Park,” was nominated for the country album Grammy Award in a field otherwise dominated by contemporary country’s heaviest hitters: Jason Aldean, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton and Taylor Swift. She cashed in one of two nominations in the country song category, winning for “Merry Go ‘Round,” which she wrote with Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne.
Wayne Shorter collected his second career Grammy in the improvised solo category for his track “Orbits” from the Wayne Shorter Quartet’s album “Without A Net.” Terri Lynne Carrington’s “Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue” won the jazz instrumental album Grammy.
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Los Angeles-based band La Santa Cecelia won the Latin rock, urban or alternative album award for “Treinta Dias,” chosen over works by more seasoned acts Café Tacuba, El Tri, Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas and Los Imigos Invisibles. “A Mi Manera” by Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea took the regional Mexican album Grammy.
Steve Martin continued his newfound success as a Grammy-winning bluegrass musician, taking the American roots song award with co-writer Edie Brickell for “Love Has Come For You” from their album of the same name.
The Americana roots album award, however, went to the reteaming of Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, who played together early on in both their careers, for their album “Old Yellow Moon.”
The Grammys are determined by about 13,000 voting members. The eligibility period for nominated recordings was Oct. 1, 2012, to Sept. 30, 2013. The 56th awards are being held at the Staples Center and telecast on CBS. They are broadcast live except for viewers on the West Coast. The latest headlines and any breaking news will be posted here on Pop & Hiss.
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