Beatles, Bowie, Metallica Win at 2024 Grammys

The Beatles and David Bowie video projects won at the Grammy Awards Sunday in Los Angeles.

The video for "I'm Only Sleeping" to promote the Revolver box set won Best Music Video and director Em Cooper was pleased to be able to thank the Fab Four.

David Bowie: Moonage Daydream won Best Music Film.

Metallica won Best Metal Performance for the title track for "72 Seasons," but lost out to Paramore for Best Rock Album and Boygenius for Best Rock Performance. (Foo Fighters were also shut out in those two categories.) It was Metallica's ninth Grammy overall and bassist Robert Trujillo used his acceptance speech to talk about how recording is like being in a family.

Joni Mitchell beat out Paul Simon and four other nominees to win Best Folk Album for her live At Newport set. 

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones lost in both their categories -- "Angry" lost Best Rock Song to Boygenius and their Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella for a cello-driven version "Paint It Black" from the Netflix series Wednesday lost to an arrangement of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues.

Bruce Springsteen lost Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album to Laufey.

And Celine Dion, who's been out of the public eye because of stiff person syndrome, was surprise presenter of Album of the Year to Taylor Swift.

The biggest winner of the night was Phoebe Bridgers, who won four overall -- three with her group Boygenius and one with SZA.

The night's performances included:

Tracy Chapman joining country star Luke Combs to duet on her song "Fast Car."

U2 doing "Atomic City" from the Sphere in Las Vegas and then presenting Best Pop Vocal Album to Taylor Swift.

The in memorium segment featured Stevie Wonder singing "For Once in My Life" with the late Tony Bennett appearing via archival video plus "The Best Is Yet to Come"; Annie Lennox with Wendy and Lisa from Prince and the Revolution doing "Nothing Compares 2 U" in tribute to Sinead O'ConnorJon Batiste paying tribute to music executive Clarence Avant with a medley of Bill Withers songs; and Fantasia Barrino paying tribute to Tina Turner by doing "Proud Mary."

Joni Mitchell in her first Grammy performance ever did "Both Sides Now."

Billy Joel gave his new song, "Turn the Lights Back On" its live debut. And he closed the show by playing "You May Be Right."


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