Daft Punk took home the Grammy for Album of the Year, and gave the shortest acceptance speech in history: zero words.
In fact, the electronic duo--decked out in their trademark shiny helmets, this time atop tuxedos--didn't utter a single syllable despite winning five times at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. They instead farmed out that task out to collaborators including Pharrell Williams, who referred to them fondly as "the robots" and Nile Rodgers, who appeared in the Staples Center's press room to give a statement on their behalf.
"They’re blown away," he said. "We are all stunned. We’re happy; none of us can believe this. If, in fact, they do a print thing and say that they had some feeling that we knew [the album] would do this ..."
Rodgers trailed off and shook his head, then laughed.
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Music's biggest night lived up to its name, punctuated by performances by the aforementioned robots and another by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis that culminated in an appearance by Madonna--and a mass wedding of 33 couples presided over by Queen Latifah.
The night featured performances by many more of the most talented names in music--and many of the top earners, sometimes one in the same--including a reunion of the last two living Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, who played a new song from the former's latest album.
McCartney popped by the press room afterward with former Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, with whom he shared an award for Best Rock Song for "Cut Me Some Slack."
He summed up the mood of the night quite aptly: "It was magic for me, playing with these guys."
Check out the full list of winners below, courtesy of Grammy.com. For continued coverage of the ceremony's aftermath, follow me on Twitter.
1. RECORD OF THE YEAR
Get Lucky
Daft Punk Featuring Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, producers; Peter Franco, Mick Guzauski, Florian Lagatta & Daniel Lerner, engineers/mixers; Antoine "Chab" Chabert & Bob Ludwig, mastering engineers
Track from: Random Access Memories
Label: Columbia Records
2. ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Random Access Memories
Daft Punk
Julian Casablancas, DJ Falcon, Todd Edwards, Chilly Gonzales, Giorgio Moroder, Panda Bear, Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams & Pharrell Williams, featured artists; Thomas Bangalter, Julian Casablancas, Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, DJ Falcon & Todd Edwards, producers; Peter Franco, Mick Guzauski, Florian Lagatta, Guillaume Le Braz & Daniel Lerner, engineers/mixers; Antoine "Chab" Chabert & Bob Ludwig, mastering engineers
Label: Columbia Records
3. SONG OF THE YEAR
Royals
Joel Little & Ella Yelich O'Connor, songwriters (Lorde)
Track from: Pure Heroine
Label: Universal Music; Publishers: Copyright Control/Sony ATV
4. BEST NEW ARTIST
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
5. BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE
Royals
Lorde
Track from: Pure Heroine
Label: Universal Republic
6. BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
Get Lucky
Daft Punk Featuring Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
Track from: Random Access Memories
Label: Columbia Records
7. BEST POP INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
Steppin' Out
Herb Alpert
Label: Shout! Factory
8. BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
Unorthodox Jukebox
Bruno Mars
Label: Atlantic
9. BEST DANCE RECORDING
Clarity
Zedd Featuring Foxes
Zedd, producer; Zedd, mixer
Track from: Clarity
Label: Interscope Records
10. BEST DANCE/ELECTRONICA ALBUM
Random Access Memories
Daft Punk
Label: Columbia Records
11. BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM
To Be Loved
Michael Bublé
Label: 143/Reprise
12. BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
Radioactive
Imagine Dragons
Track from: Night Visions
Label: Kidinakorner/ Interscope
13. BEST METAL PERFORMANCE
God Is Dead?
Black Sabbath
Track from: 13
Label: Vertigo/Republic
14. BEST ROCK SONG
Cut Me Some Slack
Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear, songwriters (Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear)
Track from: Sound City - Real To Reel
Label: RCA Records / Roswell Records; Publishers: MPL Communications, Inc./M.J.-Twelve Music/Murky Slough Music/Kobalt Music/Ruthensmear Music/Bug Music
15. BEST ROCK ALBUM
Celebration Day
Led Zeppelin
Label: Swan Song/Atlantic
16. BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM
WINNER
Modern Vampires Of The City
Vampire Weekend
Label: XL Recordings
17. BEST R&B PERFORMANCE
Something
Snarky Puppy With Lalah Hathaway
Track from: Family Dinner Volume One
Label: Ropeadope Records
18. BEST TRADITIONAL R&B PERFORMANCE
Please Come Home
Gary Clark Jr.
Track from: Blak And Blu
Label: Warner Bros Records
19. BEST R&B SONG
Pusher Love Girl
James Fauntleroy, Jerome Harmon, Timothy Mosley & Justin Timberlake, songwriters (Justin Timberlake)
Track from: The 20/20 Experience - The Complete Experience
Label: RCA Records; Publishers: Tennman Tunes/Universal Music- Z - Tunes/Virginia Beach Music/WB Music Corp./Jerome Harmon Publishing/Warner-Chappell Music, Inc./James Fauntleroy Music/Almo Music
20. BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM
WINNER
Unapologetic
Rihanna
Label: Def Jam Records
21. BEST R&B ALBUM
Girl On Fire
Alicia Keys
Label: RCA Records
22. BEST RAP PERFORMANCE
Thrift Shop
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz
Track from: The Heist
Label: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis LLC
23. BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION
Holy Grail
Jay Z Featuring Justin Timberlake
Track from: Magna Carta...Holy Grail
Label: Roc Nation
24. BEST RAP SONG
Thrift Shop
Ben Haggerty & Ryan Lewis, songwriters (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz)
Track from: The Heist
Label: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis LLC; Publishers: Macklemore Publishing/Ryan Lewis Publishing
25. BEST RAP ALBUM
The Heist
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Label: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis LLC
26. BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE
Wagon Wheel
Darius Rucker
Track from: True Believers
Label: Capitol Records Nashville
27. BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
From This Valley
The Civil Wars
Track from: The Civil Wars
Label: Sensibility Recordings / Columbia Records
28. BEST COUNTRY SONG
Merry Go 'Round
Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)
Track from: Same Trailer Different Park
Label: Mercury Records
29. BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
Same Trailer Different Park
Kacey Musgraves
Label: Mercury Records
30. BEST NEW AGE ALBUM
Love's River
Laura Sullivan
Label: Sentient Spirit Records
31. BEST IMPROVISED JAZZ SOLO
Orbits
Wayne Shorter, soloist
Track from: Without A Net (The Wayne Shorter Quartet)
Label: Blue Note Records
32. BEST JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM
Liquid Spirit
Gregory Porter
Label: Blue Note Records
33. BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM
Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue
Terri Lyne Carrington
Label: Concord Jazz
34. BEST LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM
WINNER
Night In Calisia
Randy Brecker, Włodek Pawlik Trio & Kalisz Philharmonic
Label: Summit Records
35. BEST LATIN JAZZ ALBUM
Song For Maura
Paquito D'Rivera And Trio Corrente
Label: Sunnyside Records/Paquito Records
36. BEST GOSPEL/CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Break Every Chain [Live]
Tasha Cobbs
Track from: Grace [Live]
Label: EMI Gospel/ Motown Gospel
37. BEST GOSPEL SONG
If He Did It Before... Same God [Live]
Tye Tribbett, songwriter (Tye Tribbett)
Track from: Greater Than [Live]
Label: Motown Gospel; Publisher: Everything Fresh Entertainment LLC
38. BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC SONG
Overcomer
David Garcia, Ben Glover & Christopher Stevens, songwriters (Mandisa)
Track from: Overcomer
Label: Sparrow Records; Publishers: Ariose Music/9T One Songs/Meaux Mercy/LarryDavid Music/Capitol CMG Publishing/Universal Music - Brentwood Benson Publishing/D Soul Music
39. BEST GOSPEL ALBUM
Greater Than [Live]
Tye Tribbett
Label: Motown Gospel
40. BEST CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC ALBUM
Overcomer
Mandisa
Label: Sparrow Records
41. BEST LATIN POP ALBUM
Vida
Draco Rosa
Label: Sony Music Latin
42. BEST LATIN ROCK, URBAN OR ALTERNATIVE ALBUM
Treinta Días
La Santa Cecilia
Label: Universal Music Latino Y Arju Productions, Inc.
43. BEST REGIONAL MEXICAN MUSIC ALBUM (INCLUDING TEJANO)
A Mi Manera
Mariachi Divas De Cindy Shea
Label: East Side Records/Shea Records
44. BEST TROPICAL LATIN ALBUM
Pacific Mambo Orchestra
Pacific Mambo Orchestra
Label: Tumalanmusic / Stefrecords
45. BEST AMERICAN ROOTS SONG
Love Has Come For You
Edie Brickell & Steve Martin, songwriters (Steve Martin & Edie Brickell)
Track from: Love Has Come For You
Label: Rounder; Publishers: LA Films Music/Brick Elephant Music
46. BEST AMERICANA ALBUM
Old Yellow Moon
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
Label: Nonesuch Records
47. BEST BLUEGRASS ALBUM
The Streets Of Baltimore
Del McCoury Band
Label: McCoury Music
48. BEST BLUES ALBUM
Get Up!
Ben Harper With Charlie Musselwhite
Label: Stax
49. BEST FOLK ALBUM
My Favorite Picture Of You
Guy Clark
Label: Dualtone
50. BEST REGIONAL ROOTS MUSIC ALBUM
Dockside Sessions
Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience
Label: Musicmatters Records
51. BEST REGGAE ALBUM
Ziggy Marley In Concert
Ziggy Marley
Label: Tuff Gong Worldwide
52. BEST WORLD MUSIC ALBUM (TIE)
Savor Flamenco
Gipsy Kings
Label: Knitting Factory Records
Live: Singing For Peace Around The World
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Label: Ladysmith Black Mambazo
53. BEST CHILDREN'S ALBUM
Throw A Penny In The Wishing Well
Jennifer Gasoi
Label: Sparkling Productions
54. BEST SPOKEN WORD ALBUM (INCLUDES POETRY, AUDIO BOOKS & STORYTELLING)
America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't
Stephen Colbert
Label: Hachette Audio
55. BEST COMEDY ALBUM
Calm Down Gurrl
Kathy Griffin
56. BEST MUSICAL THEATER ALBUM
Kinky Boots
Billy Porter & Stark Sands, principal soloists; Sammy James Jr., Cyndi Lauper, Stephen Oremus & William Wittman, producers; Cyndi Lauper, composer & lyricist (Original Broadway Cast With Stark Sands, Billy Porter & Others)
Label: Masterworks Broadway
57. BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
Sound City: Real To Reel
Butch Vig, compilation producer
Label: RCA Records/Roswell Records
58. BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
Skyfall
Thomas Newman, composer
Label: Sony Classical
59. BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA
Skyfall
Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth, songwriters (Adele)
Track from: Skyfall
Label: Columbia Records/ XL Recordings; Publishers: Universal Music Publishing Ltd./EMI Music Publishing Ltd.
60. BEST INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION
Pensamientos For Solo Alto Saxophone And Chamber Orchestra
Clare Fischer, composer (The Clare Fischer Orchestra)
Label: Clavo Records
61. BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT
On Green Dolphin Street
Gordon Goodwin, arranger (Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band)
Label: Telarc International
62. BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT ACCOMPANYING VOCALIST(S)
Swing Low
Gil Goldstein, arranger (Bobby McFerrin & Esperanza Spalding)
Label: Masterworks
63. BEST RECORDING PACKAGE
Long Night Moon
Sarah Dodds & Shauna Dodds, art directors (Reckless Kelly)
Label: No Big Deal Records
64. BEST BOXED OR SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE
Wings Over America (Deluxe Edition)
Simon Earith & James Musgrave, art directors (Paul McCartney And Wings)
Label: Hear Music
65. BEST ALBUM NOTES
Afro Blue Impressions (Remastered & Expanded)
Neil Tesser, album notes writer (John Coltrane)
Label: Pablo/Concord Music Group
66. BEST HISTORICAL ALBUM (TIE)
Charlie Is My Darling - Ireland 1965
Teri Landi, Andrew Loog Oldham & Steve Rosenthal, compilation producers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (The Rolling Stones)
Label: ABKCO
The Complete Sussex And Columbia Albums
Leo Sacks, compilation producer; Joseph M. Palmaccio, Tom Ruff & Mark Wilder, mastering engineers (Bill Withers)
Label: Columbia/Legacy Recordings
67. BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, NON-CLASSICAL
Random Access Memories
Peter Franco, Mick Guzauski, Florian Lagatta & Daniel Lerner, engineers; Antoine "Chab" Chabert, Bob Ludwig, mastering engineers (Daft Punk)
Label: Columbia Records
68. PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL
Pharrell Williams
• BBC (Jay Z) (T) • Blurred Lines (Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell) (S) • Happy (Pharrell Williams) (T) • I Can't Describe (The Way I Feel) (Jennifer Hudson Featuring T.I.) (S) • Nuclear (Destiny's Child) (T) • Oceans (Jay Z Featuring Frank Ocean) (T) • Reach Out Richard (Mayer Hawthorne) (T) • The Stars Are Ours (Mayer Hawthorne) (T)
69. BEST REMIXED RECORDING, NON-CLASSICAL
Summertime Sadness (Cedric Gervais Remix)
Cedric Gervais, remixer (Lana Del Rey)
Label: Interscope/Polydor UK
70. BEST SURROUND SOUND ALBUM
Live Kisses
Al Schmitt, surround mix engineer; Tommy LiPuma, surround producer (Paul McCartney)
Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment
71. BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL
Winter Morning Walks
David Frost, Brian Losch & Tim Martyn, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer (Dawn Upshaw, Maria Schneider, Australian Chamber Orchestra & St. Paul Chamber Orchestra)
Label: ArtistShare
72. PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL
David Frost
• Andres: Home Stretch (Timo Andres, Andrew Cyr & Metropolis Ensemble) • Angel Heart, A Music Storybook (Matt Haimovitz & Uccello) • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 (Jonathan Biss) • Ben-Haim: Chamber Works (ARC Ensemble) • Celebrating The American Spirit (Judith Clurman & Essential Voices USA) • Elgar: Enigma Variations; Vaughan Williams: The Wasps; Greensleeves (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony) • Guilty Pleasures (Renée Fleming, Sebastian Lang-Lessing & Philharmonia Orchestra) • Verdi: Otello (Riccardo Muti, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Carlo Guelfi, Chicago Symphony Chorus & Chicago Symphony Orchestra) • Winter Morning Walks (Dawn Upshaw, Maria Schneider, Australian Chamber Orchestra & St. Paul Chamber Orchestra)
73. BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4
Osmo Vänskä, conductor (Minnesota Orchestra)
Label: BIS Records
74. BEST OPERA RECORDING
Adès: The Tempest
Thomas Adès, conductor; Simon Keenlyside, Isabel Leonard, Audrey Luna & Alan Oke; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
75. BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE
Pärt: Adam's Lament
Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor (Tui Hirv & Rainer Vilu; Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Sinfonietta Riga & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra; Latvian Radio Choir & Vox Clamantis)
Label: ECM New Series
76. BEST CHAMBER MUSIC/SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
Roomful Of Teeth
Brad Wells & Roomful Of Teeth
Label: New Amsterdam Records
77. BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLO
Corigliano: Conjurer - Concerto For Percussionist & String Orchestra
Evelyn Glennie; David Alan Miller, conductor (Albany Symphony)
Track from: Corigliano: Conjurer; Vocalise
Label: Naxos
78. BEST CLASSICAL VOCAL SOLO
Winter Morning Walks
Dawn Upshaw (Maria Schneider; Jay Anderson, Frank Kimbrough & Scott Robinson; Australian Chamber Orchestra & St. Paul Chamber Orchestra)
Label: ArtistShare
79. BEST CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM
Hindemith: Violinkonzert; Symphonic Metamorphosis; Konzertmusik
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Label: Ondine
80. BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION
Schneider, Maria: Winter Morning Walks
Maria Schneider, composer (Dawn Upshaw, Jay Anderson, Frank Kimbrough, Scott Robinson & Australian Chamber Orchestra)
Track from: Winter Morning Walks
Label: ArtistShare
81. BEST MUSIC VIDEO
Suit & Tie
Justin Timberlake Featuring Jay Z
David Fincher, video director; Timory King, video producer
Label: RCA Records
82. BEST MUSIC FILM
Live Kisses
Paul McCartney
Jonas Åkerlund, video director; Violaine Etienne, Aron Levine & Scott Rodger, video producers
Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment
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