56th Annual GRAMMY Awards Live-Blog
The official GRAMMY.com live-blog for Music's Biggest Night, the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards, taking place Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014
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Nile Rodgers, Daft Punk, Paul Williams, and Pharrell Williams accept the GRAMMY for Album Of The Year for Random Access Memories (Photo: WireImage.com)
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr perform "Queenie Eye" on the 56th GRAMMYs (Photo: WireImage.com)
Nate Ruess and Pink perform "Just Give Me A Reason" at the 56th GRAMMYs (Photo: WireImage.com)
Macklemore and Mary Lambert perform "Same Love" on the 56th GRAMMYs (Photo: WireImage.com)
Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers win Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Get Lucky" at the 56th GRAMMYs (Photo: WireImage.com)
Kacey Musgraves accepts her GRAMMY for Best Country Album (Photo: WireImage.com)
Lorde accepts her award for Best Pop Solo Performance for "Royals" at the 56th GRAMMYs in Los Angeles (Photo: WireImage.com)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis win for Best New Artist at the 56th GRAMMYs (Photo: WireImage.com)
Jay Z accepts his award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Holy Grail" featuring Justin Timberlake at the 56th GRAMMYs in Los Angeles (Photo: WireImage.com)
Krist Novoselic, Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, and Pat Smear accept their Best Rock Song award at the 56th GRAMMYs (Photo: WireImage.com)
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Tonight's winners as announced on the telecast:
Best New Artist: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: "Get Lucky," Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers
Best Rock Song: "Cut Me Some Slack," Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, and Krist Novoselic
Best Pop Solo Performance: "Royals," Lorde
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: "Holy Grail," Jay Z Featuring Justin Timberlake
Best Pop Vocal Album: Unorthodox Jukebox, Bruno Mars
Best Country Album: Same Trailer Different Park, Kacey Musgraves
Song Of The Year: "Royals," Lorde and Joel Little
Record Of The Year: "Get Lucky," Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers
Album Of The Year: Random Access Memories, Daft Punk
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I wonder what rehearsals for this next performance were like. Maybe Lang Lang grew up listening to “… And Justice for All” and needed no convincing to team up with Metallica. Maybe Lang Lang is a secret metalhead. -
GRAMMY Facts on the Fifteens!Carole King was honored as the 2014 MusiCares Person of the Year Saturday night at a star-studded concert that featured performances by a cluster of artists, including Sara Bareilles. King won Song Of The Year for "You've Got A Friend" in 1971. Bareilles was nominated in the category in 2008 for her "Love Song."
2014 MusiCares Person of the Year honoree Carole King at the tribute in her honor Friday night
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You heard what the “coming up” announcer said. We’ve got a lot to talk about. Metallica and Lang Lang? The thrash metal heroes and the Chinese concert pianist? Something memorable — epic perhaps? — is about to go down in LA.
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Stevie Wonder + Pharrell + Cyndi Lauper all in the GRAMMY Twitter mirrorBackstage at the #GRAMMYs ! watch now @CBS bit.ly/1dV3Hyc with @steviewonder pic.twitter.com/rnreIXn3PG
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Backstage at the #GRAMMYs ! watch now @CBS bit.ly/1dV3Hyc with @cyndilauper @pharrell pic.twitter.com/XdtBc3MKyw
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Backstage at the #GRAMMYs ! watch now @CBS bit.ly/1dV3Hyc with @steviewonder @pharrell pic.twitter.com/RoDdeYzXjl
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Backstage at the #GRAMMYs ! watch now @CBS bit.ly/1dV3Hyc with @pharrell @steviewonder pic.twitter.com/Y23scfDg23
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That was an appreciative Lorde we just witnessed. Walking on GRAMMY air.
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Some of the night's previous winners react to their GRAMMY winExcited & happy to be celebrating my 4th #grammy win with friends in Milan at their amazing restaurant… instagram.com/p/jpkpobJS4z/
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@jasonjones @StaceyWillbur @davidgarcia83 @regisfunk @benglover Thankful to work with THE BEST!!! Thanks and congrats to ALL of you!Jan. 27, 2014- Reply
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Lorde accepting her award for Song Of The Year
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And the Song of the Year award goes to “Royals,” and Lorde, one of tonight’s most awesome performers in a sea of awesomeness.
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TWO GRAMMYS AT AGE 17 SLAYby ❁kelly❁ via twitter 1/27/2014 3:42:06 AM -
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Also kind of a departure for Sara Bareilles because it’s not a ballad. Is this a new direction for her? If so, do you like where it’s taking her?
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Earlier today Cyndi Lauper hosted the GRAMMY Pre-Telecast Ceremony and then won Best Musical Theater Album for Kinky Boots.
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Sara Bareilles’ “Brave” co-writer is the bandmate of one of tonight’s performers: Jack Antonoff, of fun. The song, it's rumored, is about coming out. It’s a bright — and important, and timely — “message” song.
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And Sara Bareilles is no slouch in the songwriting department, either. This is the wonderful “Brave,” off last year’s “The Blessed Unrest.” “Brave” was a contender for Best Pop Solo Performance.
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“Beautiful” comes off the 1971 classic album “Tapestry.” So much uplift in this song. Tons of pluck. But it has that Carole King quality of substance, too. The world already knows it and that includes all of you out there but it’s worth saying again: she’s a master songwriter.
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Sara Bareilles and Carole King performing "Brave" and "Beautiful" at the center stage
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Carole King and Sara Bareilles are with us, making the earth move under our feet. What a pair of powerhouses. And they’re both huge right now: Carole King because of “Beautiful,” the Broadway musical based on her life (we’re hearing “Beautiful” the song right now) and Sara Bareilles for her album “The Blessed Unrest,” up for Album of the Year tonight.
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Jay Z and Justin Timberlake win Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Holy Grail"!
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The answer is the Beatles. If the fact that we asked that question during Ringo
Starr's performance didn't give away the answer … you may want to play more
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Stunning show so far, and still so much more to come. Stay tuned for some killer collabs.
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Jay Z accepting his GRAMMY for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration from Jamie Foxx
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Lorde wins Best Pop Solo Performance for "Royals"!
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The guys behind "Cut Me Some Slack" - @FooFightersDave , @PaulMcCartney , @KristNovoselic , #PatSmear #GRAMMYs http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Be8-6ABCEAEqdAT.png
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Here’s a nicely turned-out Jamie Foxx to present the GRAMMY for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Wait for it …
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Earlier this week Ringo Starr was at the Special Merit Awards Ceremony & Nominees Reception to accept his Lifetime Achievement Award with the Beatles.
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Well worth the adulation, that song. He’s keeping beautiful memories, and beautiful melodies, alive.
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This is a sentimental classic, and a sentimental moment, no doubt, for gazillions of Beatle worshippers. Every time they see Ringo’s face, they’re reminded of the places they used to go ….
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Ringo is 73. Does it show? Hardly! He looks fit and spry and ready to conquer the world a second time. He could pull off a one-man Ringo invasion.
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Earlier, Ringo Starr gave us an up-close look at the Beatles 2014 Lifetime Achievement AwardBeatles got lifetime achievement awards from the Grammys well done peace and loveR***????????????????????????✌️✌️ pic.twitter.com/CfWTRu5lrQ
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Beatles fans don’t need me to tell them why next month marks a huge Fab Four milestone, but here’s an explanation for everybody else: Feb. 9, 1964, is the date the Beatles first played “The Ed Sullivan Show.” In other words, it was 50 years ago that our country went cuckoo for mop tops.
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“Photograph” is Ringo’s hit from his 1973 album “Ringo.” He wrote it with the late George Harrison.
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You guys were right! The answer is: 1,500. It takes 1,500 stage crew members to put on a GRAMMY show! And our hands are sore just from live-blogging.
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What a welcoming committee: Ozzy and Black Sabbath are here to bring out Ringo. He likely didn’t need a little help from his friends, but he’s got it.
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I can’t stop thinking about Robin Thicke and Chicago. Oh, the charisma! Also Taylor Swift’s long gaze into the camera at the end of her song. What’s your favorite flashback so far?
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Pink + Jamie Foxx + Miguel & Arianna Grande pose at the GRAMMY Twitter mirror!Jan. 27, 2014
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Backstage at the #GRAMMYs ! Watch now @CBS bit.ly/1dV3HyC with Arianna Grande @ariannagrande @miguelunlimited pic.twitter.com/C66YIl4hm7
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Backstage at the #GRAMMYs ! Watch now @CBS bit.ly/1dV3HyC with Jamie Foxx @iamjamiefoxx pic.twitter.com/b3h1g6ERoz
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We’ve also got a landmark performance coming up to think about: There’s a Beatle in the house. Ringo Starr is about to take the stage.
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Fans react to Lorde's win for Best Pop Solo Performance#Lorde just nailed her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech: surprise, homage to her elders, & delight just to be there.Jan. 27, 2014
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LORDE, LORDE, LORDE, @lordemusic got her really deserved Grammy :D THE only nominee THAT DESERVED THE AWARD #GRAMMYsJan. 27, 2014- Reply
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Best pop solo perf goes 2 @lordemusic 's #royals and she seemed really unprepared to win @TheGRAMMYs . Good choice! #theGRAMMYsJan. 27, 2014- Reply
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"@TheGRAMMYs : Congrats to Best Pop Solo Performance @lordemusic "Royals" #GRAMMYs " oh my God, she deserve it. I love you ????????????????????Jan. 27, 2014- Reply
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