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Members of U2 Bono, The Edge (obscured), Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen sweep the Grammys.
Irish rockers U2 won the coveted album of the year prize for How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb at the 48th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
U2 also won the song of the year Grammy for their ballad Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own.
U2 also won Grammys for rock performance by a duo or group with vocal (Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own) and best rock song (City of Blinding Lights).
Punk rockers Green Day won the record of the year trophy for their single Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Legend won the Grammy Award for best new artist, a prize that most pundits had expected would go his way.
Legend, whose real name is John Stephens, shared the lead among Grammy nominees with Mariah Carey and West, all landing eight nominations. He earlier won two awards.
Australian country music star Keith Urban took out the best country vocal performance with his You'll Think of Me.
Carey made up for lost Grammys, winning three trophies in the early going, while Motown icon Stevie Wonder was among the early winners with two wins.
That finally changed on Wednesday. She won three in the pre-telecast ceremony and had the opportunity to win four more, which means she could make history as the first female artist to win six or more in a single evening. (Norah Jones, Beyonce, Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill each won five.)
Carey won best contemporary R&B album for The Emancipation of Mimi, best R&B song for We Belong Together and best female R&B vocal performance for the same tune.
West won the best rap song category for Diamonds from Sierra Leone.
Legend was also an early winner, beating Wonder, Keys, Fantasia and Earth, Wind & Fire to snag best R&B album for his platinum debut, Get Lifted.
Wonder's career haul rose to 24, thanks to wins in the male pop vocal performance (From the Bottom of My Heart) and R&B performance by a duo or group with vocals (So Amazing). He shared the latter award with Beyonce Knowles of R&B group Destiny's Child.
Other double-winners included rock singer Bruce Springsteen, bluegrass combo Alison Krauss + Union Station, reggae star Damian Marley, electronica act the Chemical Brothers, and gospel singer CeCe Winans.
French classical conductor Pierre Boulez won his 26th Grammmy, and now ranks as No. 3 on the all time list of Grammy winners, pulling ahead of late Russian pianist Vladimir Horowitz, with whom he was tied. The only people ahead of him are late conductor Georg Solti with 31, and producer Quincy Jones with 27.
Bluesman B.B. King won the 14th Grammy of his career, in the traditional blues album category for 80, an all-star collaboration that marked his 80th birthday.
Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler won the sixth Grammy of his career in the surround sound category for the 20th anniversary reissue of the band's album Brothers in Arms. The award was accepted by his mastering engineer, who accidentally thanked his collaborators on another album on which he was nominated, the Foo Fighters' In Your Honor.
While Martin Scorsese has famously yet to win an Academy Award, he did pick up his first Grammy, in his capacity as a director of the Bob Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, which won the category for long form music video. Dylan himself does not share in the award since had little involvement with the acclaimed project.
Among the other winners not noted for their musical ability was Barack Obama, who won the spoken word album category for the audio version of his book Dreams From My Father.
Marley, the son of reggae legend Bob, won best reggae album and best urban/alternative performance for Welcome to Jamrock, his break-out album and hit of the same name.
Carey was clearly the leading favourite heading into the music industry's most celebrated evening, nominated in the most prestigious categories, including record and song of the year for her torch ballad We Belong Together, the year's most popular song, and for album of the year for The Emancipation of Mimi, 2005's best-selling album.
But Carey faced tough competition. For record of the year, her fellow nominees included West's Gold Digger, the Ray Charles-inspired hit about money-hungry gals; the poignant Boulevard of Broken Dreams from Green Day; Gwen Stefani's undeniably catchy Hollaback Girl; and the funky Feel Good Inc from the cartoon-fronted band, the Gorillaz.
Members of U2 Bono, The Edge (obscured), Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen sweep the Grammys.
Irish rockers U2 won the coveted album of the year prize for How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb at the 48th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
U2 also won the song of the year Grammy for their ballad Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own.
U2 also won Grammys for rock performance by a duo or group with vocal (Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own) and best rock song (City of Blinding Lights).
Punk rockers Green Day won the record of the year trophy for their single Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Legend won the Grammy Award for best new artist, a prize that most pundits had expected would go his way.
Legend, whose real name is John Stephens, shared the lead among Grammy nominees with Mariah Carey and West, all landing eight nominations. He earlier won two awards.
Australian country music star Keith Urban took out the best country vocal performance with his You'll Think of Me.
Carey made up for lost Grammys, winning three trophies in the early going, while Motown icon Stevie Wonder was among the early winners with two wins.
That finally changed on Wednesday. She won three in the pre-telecast ceremony and had the opportunity to win four more, which means she could make history as the first female artist to win six or more in a single evening. (Norah Jones, Beyonce, Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill each won five.)
Carey won best contemporary R&B album for The Emancipation of Mimi, best R&B song for We Belong Together and best female R&B vocal performance for the same tune.
West won the best rap song category for Diamonds from Sierra Leone.
Legend was also an early winner, beating Wonder, Keys, Fantasia and Earth, Wind & Fire to snag best R&B album for his platinum debut, Get Lifted.
Wonder's career haul rose to 24, thanks to wins in the male pop vocal performance (From the Bottom of My Heart) and R&B performance by a duo or group with vocals (So Amazing). He shared the latter award with Beyonce Knowles of R&B group Destiny's Child.
Other double-winners included rock singer Bruce Springsteen, bluegrass combo Alison Krauss + Union Station, reggae star Damian Marley, electronica act the Chemical Brothers, and gospel singer CeCe Winans.
French classical conductor Pierre Boulez won his 26th Grammmy, and now ranks as No. 3 on the all time list of Grammy winners, pulling ahead of late Russian pianist Vladimir Horowitz, with whom he was tied. The only people ahead of him are late conductor Georg Solti with 31, and producer Quincy Jones with 27.
Bluesman B.B. King won the 14th Grammy of his career, in the traditional blues album category for 80, an all-star collaboration that marked his 80th birthday.
Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler won the sixth Grammy of his career in the surround sound category for the 20th anniversary reissue of the band's album Brothers in Arms. The award was accepted by his mastering engineer, who accidentally thanked his collaborators on another album on which he was nominated, the Foo Fighters' In Your Honor.
While Martin Scorsese has famously yet to win an Academy Award, he did pick up his first Grammy, in his capacity as a director of the Bob Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, which won the category for long form music video. Dylan himself does not share in the award since had little involvement with the acclaimed project.
Among the other winners not noted for their musical ability was Barack Obama, who won the spoken word album category for the audio version of his book Dreams From My Father.
Marley, the son of reggae legend Bob, won best reggae album and best urban/alternative performance for Welcome to Jamrock, his break-out album and hit of the same name.
Carey was clearly the leading favourite heading into the music industry's most celebrated evening, nominated in the most prestigious categories, including record and song of the year for her torch ballad We Belong Together, the year's most popular song, and for album of the year for The Emancipation of Mimi, 2005's best-selling album.
But Carey faced tough competition. For record of the year, her fellow nominees included West's Gold Digger, the Ray Charles-inspired hit about money-hungry gals; the poignant Boulevard of Broken Dreams from Green Day; Gwen Stefani's undeniably catchy Hollaback Girl; and the funky Feel Good Inc from the cartoon-fronted band, the Gorillaz.
