In about five minutes, the 55th Annual GrammyAwards will air LIVE from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on CBS, hosted byLL Cool J. Last year, the GrammyTelecast had a dark cloud over it, as the ceremony took place about 24 hoursafter the death of Grammy-winning singer Whitney Houston.
There will be a lot of performers singing tonight, fromTaylor Swift to Elton John to Dave Grohl to Fun..
Also for this year’s ceremony, CBS lowered the boom onGrammy guests with a STRICT dress code that bans clothing that reveals thebreast and buttock areas.
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8:01PM- There will be a lot of once-in-a-lifetimeperformances and collaborations, let’s get ready…
8:04PM- Up first, it’s Taylor Swift, dressed up for an Alicein Wonderland Tea Party with one of her 35 breakup songs “We Are Never,Never Ever Getting Back Together.” Thegirl is only 23, and she’s written more breakup songs that we’ve listened to inour lifetime. This is theAnti-Valentine’s Day Anthem for 2013. This is also the Break Up Anthem of 2013, as well.
8:05PM- The Host, L.L. Cool J arrives to the stage. “My friend T-Swizzle has also already won aGrammy tonight.”
8:06PM- “At the Grammy Awards, we will always get backtogether.”
8:07PM- “For Justin Timberlake in Memphis, from Beyonce inHouston, from Carrie Underwood in Oklahoma, from Adele in England, from Gotyein Bruges, and from Rihanna in Barbados…”- LL Cool J about the roots of theaspirations of many Grammy-nominated musical artists
8:09PM- “A Grammy isn’t just a shiny medal. It is a dream come true. Or in the case of Adele last year, sixdreams come true.”- LL Cool J
8:13PM- Ed Sheeran and Sir Elton John perform Sheeran's “The A Team” onthe Grammy stage. Up next after thecommercial break, the first category of the night, plus more presenters.
8:26PM- Fun. performs “Carry On” (the song heard in thepilot of the F/X comedy Legit), which is from their Grammy nominatedAlbum, “Some Nights”. Fun. leads withsix Grammy nominations, including the coveted “Top Four” (Album/Record/Song ofthe Year, and Best New Artist).
8:27PM- More categories and more great performances after(yes, you guessed it) another commercial break.
8:32PM- Grammy winners Bonnie Raitt and John Mayer present“Over You” and “Home”, performed by country singers Dierks Bentley and (oftenoutspoken) Miranda Lambert.
8:38PM- A video clip of LL Cool J on “American Bandstand”.
8:39PM- LL Cool J pays tribute to the late Dick Clark.
8:41PM- Nelly and Wiz Khalifa perform together.
8:42PM- Nelly and Wiz Khalifa also present the second awardtonight, Country Solo Performance. “Home” (Dierks Bentley), “Springsteen” (Eric Church), “Cost on Livin’”(Ronnie Dunn), “Wanted” (Hunter Hayes), “Over” (Blake Shelton), and “BlownAway” (Carrie Underwood) are the nominees for Country Solo Performance.
8:43PM- Carrie Underwood wins the Grammy for Country SoloPerformance for “Blown Away”.
8:44PM- More commercials, and after that, more performances,and husband-and-wife duo Tim McGraw and Faith Hill present “Song of the Year”.
8:49PM- Husband and Wife Country Singers Tim McGraw andFaith Hill present the Grammy for “Song of the Year”. Will breakout “We Are Young” take it? Will the song of the summer “Call Me Maybe”? OR Will Another?
8:51PM- “The A Team” (Ed Sheeran), “Adorn” (Miguel), “CallMe Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen), “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You” (KellyClarkson), and “We Are Young” (Fun. featuring Janelle Monae) are the nomineesfor Song of the Year.
8:52PM- “We Are Young” takes home the Grammy for Fun.
8:53PM- “This is in HD, and if anyone can tell by our faces,we are not very young. We’ve been doingthis for the past twelve years.”
8:53PM- “I want to thank Chick Corea and the band, I want tothank Jay-Z, I want to thank Taylor, I want to thank everyone.”
8:54PM- Johnny Depp introduces Sublime and Mumford and Sons,who perform “I Will Wait For You” together on the Grammy stage.
8:58PM- Another commercial break, but there are a lot ofperformances coming up, such as Justin Timberlake, Carrie Underwood, andRihanna.
9:03PM- Ellen DeGeneres andBeyonce introduce Justin Timberlake, who returns to the Grammy stage with aperformance from his upcoming album “The 20/20 Experience”.
9:06PM- The screen goes from color to black and white asJustin Timberlake performs some songs from his upcoming album “The 20/20Experience”. The first song is called“Show You a Few Things”.
9:06PM- Joining Timberlake on the stage now is Jay-Z.
9:07PM- From black and white to color, Timberlake performs athird song from his new album.
9:11PM- Kelly Rowland and Oz present the fourth category ofthe night, a brand new category, “Best Urban Contemporary Album”, and “Fortune”(Chris Brown”, “Kaleidoscope Dream” (Miguel), and “Channel Orange” (FrankOcean) are the three nominees in this Grammy Freshman category.
9:12PM- Frank Ocean, an openly gay R&B artist, wins theGrammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album for “Channel Orange”.
9:13PM- “The best way you disengage an audience is imaginingthem naked, but I don’t want to do that. I’ll pretend that you are all kids with tuxedoes.”- Frank Ocean
9:14PM- Commercial Break is up now, but Maroon 5 andAlicia Keys are waiting, as are Keith Urban and Kaley Cuoco to present the nextcategory.
9:19PM- Dave Grohl and NCIS co-star Pauley Perrette presentthe fifth category of the night, which happens to be Best Rock Performance, andannounce the Producer of the Year winner Dan Auerbach. Grohl and Perrette also acknowledge thetechnicians.
9:20PM- “Hold On” (Alabama Shakes), “Lonely Boy” (BlackKeys), “Charlie Brown” (Coldplay), “I Will Wait” (Mumford and Sons), and “WeTake Care of Our Own” (Bruce Springsteen) are the nominees for Best RockPerformance.
9:21PM- The Black Keys win the Grammy for Best RockPerformance for “Lonely Boy”.
9:22PM- “WE hold these truths to be self-evident as theGrammys bring music together.”- LL Cool J introducing Maroon Five and AliciaKeys who are going to perform “Daylight” and “Girl on Fire”.
9:23PM- Maroon 5 starts off with “Daylight” with (part-timeReality Show Judge and Actor) Adam Levine singing “Daylight” with the rest ofMaroon 5.
9:24PM- Alicia Keys joins in with her breakout hit “Girl onFire” (which has been heard in a Visa Mastercard commercial, and on last week’sepisode of Glee).
9:27PM- Kaley Cuoco and (American Idol Judge) Keith Urbanpresent Best Pop Vocal Album.
9:27PM- “And now Keith Urban and I are going to be the next presentingcountry duo.”- Kaley Cuoco
“They cut that.”- Keith Urban
9:28PM- “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” (Kelly Clarkson),“Ceremonials” (Florence and the Machine), “Some Nights” (Fun.), “Overexposed”(Maroon 5), and “The Truth About Love” (Pink) are the nominees for Best PopVocal Album.
9:28PM- “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” wins the Grammyfor Best Pop Vocal Album for Kelly Clarkson.
9:29PM- “Miguel, I don’t know who you are, but we shouldsing together.”- Kelly Clarkson
9:30PM- More performances and Best New Artist, after thenext commercial break.
9:36PM- Rihanna performs “Stay” on the Grammy Stage withJohn Mayer.
9:40PM- Carly Rae Jepsen and Neo present the Grammy for BestRap/Sung Collaboration”
9:41PM- “No Church in the Wild” wins Best Rap/SungCollaboration for Jay-Z, Kanye West, Frank Ocean and The Dream.
9:44PM- Glenn Gould, Charlie Haden, Lightnin’ Hopkins,Carole King, Patti Page, Ravi Shankar, and The Temptations are this year’sLifetime Achievement Grammy Winners. Page and Shankar are two of the artists who have passed away in recentmonths.
9:49PM- Actress Kat Dennings introduces The Black Keys andDr. John and the Preservation Band.
9:51PM- The Black Keys and Dr. John and the PreservationBand perform The Black Keys’ Grammy-winning “Lonely Boy”.
9:53PM- Kelly Clarkson pays tribute to Patti Page and CaroleKing, two of this year’s Lifetime Achievement winners. Clarkson kicks off with Page’s 1950 hit “TheTennessee Waltz”.
9:55PM- Next, Clarkson moves to a song that was written byCarole King that was made famous by Aretha Franklin. Yes, you guessed it, “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman”.
9:57PM- Clarkson also presents the Grammy for Best CountryAlbum.
9:58PM- “Uncaged” (Zac Brown Band), “Hunter Hayes” (HunterHayes), “Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran” (Jamey Johnson), “Fourthe Record” (Miranda Lambert), and “The Time Jumpers” (The Time Jumpers) arethe nominees in this category.
9:59PM- “Uncaged” wins the Grammy for Best Country Album forThe Zac Brown Band.
10:00PM- Up next is a commercial break, and then coming up,Bruno Mars, Sting, The Lumineers, and later Katy Perry, Carrie Underwood, andFrank Ocean.
10:04PM- Marilyn & Alan Bergman, and Alan Livingstonwere the 2013 Trustee Winners.
10:05PM- “Music knows no borders.”- LL Cool J, introducingthe Bob Marley tribute segment
10:06PM- Bruno Mars kicks off the tribute to Bob Marley.
10:07PM- Sting joins in with Bruno Mars.
10:10PM- Rihanna and Bob Marley’s sons Ziggy and DamianMarley are now joining in on the stage for this musical tribute with “Could YouBe Loved”.
10:13PM- There is a lot more coming up after the break,including an all-star In Memoriam tribute to the late Levon Helm.
10:20PM- Best New Artist nominees The Lumineers performtheir breakout song “I Belong With You”. Even Taylor Swift is singing along in the audience.
10:21PM- Jack White performs “I Want Love”.
10:23PM- White performs another song.
10:26PM- Katy Perry (both with Y’s) presents the Grammy forBest New Artist. “If you don’t win, don’t feel win. I wasn’t even nominated, and I even have my own eyelash.”
10:26PM- The nominees for Best New Artist are AlabamaShakes, Hunter Hayes, The Lumineers, Frank Ocean, and Fun.
10:27PM- The Grammys are having some more Fun. Guess who the Grammy for Best New Artist goesto? Yup, Fun.
10:28PM- We’ve got more Commercials, plus tributes to DaveBrubeck and Levon Helm, plus more performances, and of course, the top two: Recordand Album of the Year.
10:34PM- Best New Artist nominee Hunter Hayes performs alittle bit before introducing Carrie Underwood to the stage.
10:36PM- Carrie Underwood performs her Grammy-winning song“Blown Away”.
10:39PM- Prince (or The Artist known as, um yeah) presentsthe Grammy for Record of the Year to a standing ovation as he arrives on thestage.
10:40PM- The Nominees are: “Lonely Boy” (The Black Keys), “Stronger(What Doesn’t Kill You” (Kelly Clarkson), “We Are Young” (Fun. featuringJanelle Monae), “Somebody That I Used To Know” (Gotye, featuring Kimbra), “ThinkingAbout You” (Frank Ocean), and “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” (TaylorSwift)
10:41PM- “Somebody That I Used To Know” derails Fun’schances for a sweep by winning for Record of the Year for Gotye.
10:42PM- “I’m a little bit received for words, receivingthis from the man behind me.”- Gotye
10:43PM- Coming up is the Memoriam, plus a couple of otherperformances, and Adele with Album of the Year, and a finale by LL Cool J.
10:48PM- The In Memoriam Tribute kicks off with a tribute tothe late jazz musician Dave Brubeck, as performed by Chick Corea, Stanley Goff,and Henry Garrett. “Take Five” and“Blue Rondo a la Turk” were the songs played this trio.
10:50PM- Academy Chair Neil Portnow and American Idolhost (and Grammy Foundation Honorary Chair) Ryan Seacrest join the stage tointroduce the Grammy Foundation.
10:51PM- Justin Timberlake returns to the stage.
10:52PM- Outstanding Music Educator Award will be part ofthe Grammys next year. (http://grammymusicteacher.com)
10:53PM- Portnow segues into the Memoriam.
In Memoriam: Dave Brubeck, Andy Williams, Donna Summer,Sugarfood, Chuck Brown, Robin Gibb, Patti Page, Douhg Dillard, Scruggs, DavyJones, Dick Clark, Jimmy Jones, Fontella Bass, Cleve Duncan, Herb Reed, FrankWilson, Hal David, Scott McKenzie, Andy Griffith, Marvin Hamlisch, RichardAdler, Patty Andrews, Dorothy McGuire, Jenni Rivera, Kitty Wells, Frances Preston,Donna Hilley, Rick Blackburn, Doc Watson, Mickey Auldridge, Joe South, RaviShankar, Mickey Baker, Carl Davis, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Adam Yauch, Ed Cassady,Ronnie Montrose, Jon Lore, Frank Baralona, Chris Lighty, Billy Strange, JimMarshall, John Strongack, George Marino, Howard Hilson Scott, Al Delory, MikeMelve, Jules Chaikin, Yomo Toro, Maurice Andre, Elliot Carter, Red Holloway,Carrie Smith, Bob Welch, Bob Birth, Andrew Love, and Levon Helm were among themusical artists whom we lost.
10:57PM- Sir Elton John pays tribute to the victims to themassacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, before kicking off an all-startribute to the late Levon Helm with “The Weight”.
11:11PM- Miguel also introduces Frank Ocean, who will beperforming his song “Forrest Gump”.
11:15PM- “Most artists who go on to win Album of the Year goon to success…”- Adele; Adele presents the coveted Album of the Year.
11:16PM- “El Camino” (The Black Keys), “Some Nights” (Fun.),Babel (Mumford and Sons), “Channel Orange” (Frank Oceans), and “Blunderbuss”(Jack White) are the Nominees.
11:16PM- The Album of the Year for the Grammy Awards goes to“Babel” for Mumford and Sons.
11:17PM- “Adele is looking so wonderful tonight.” (And thenAdele blushes); Mumford and Sons were completely not expecting to win
11:18PM- The Grammys are going to close this show with agrand finale with host LL Cool J (and a few of his friends).
11:24PM- The Grammys close out with LL Cool J taking thestage with Chuck D, Tom Morello, Z Trip, and Travis Parker with “Whaddup”.
11:27PM- MCA joins in with “No Sleep To Brooklyn” as theGrammys close out with “Whaddup”.
11:30PM- What a great Grammy show! In two weeks, I do it again with Hollywood’s Biggest Night, the85th Annual Academy Awards, hosted by Seth McFarlane on ABC. Next Monday on The DJBC Happy Hour onWCRS-FM (102.1 and 98.3FM Columbus- http://www.wcrsfm.org),an Oscar Preview, and in two weeks (February 25), a LIVE After-OscarsBroadcast.
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