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Plant and Krauss triumph at Grammys

By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 9 February 2009

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss led the list of this year’s Grammy winners, taking five gongs at the awards ceremony, which took place in LA last night.

The duo won the event’s Album Of The Year award for their LP ‘Raising Sand’, and were also victorious in the Best Contemporary Folk/American Album, the Best Country Collaboration With Vocals, and the Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals categories. Their single ‘Please Read The Letter’, meanwhile, won Record Of The Year.

Plant told the audience: “I’d like to say I’m bewildered. In the old days we would have called this selling out. But it’s a good way to spend a Sunday”.

Other British acts (well, Plant is British, even if Krauss isn’t) recognised at the event included Coldplay, who picked up three honours, including the Song Of The Year prize for ‘Viva La Vida’, and Adele, who got Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Performance for ‘Chasing Pavement’.

Fellow newcomer contender Duffy won the pop vocal album prize. Radiohead were also in winning mode, taking Best Alternative Album for ‘In Rainbows’.

Elsewhere, Lil Wayne, who, as previously reported, led the nominations with a total of eight, garnered four of those, whilst Jennifer Hudson, more recently in the news because of the tragic murders of her mother, brother and nephew, won the award for Best R&B Album.

Accepting the gong, she said: “I don’t really know what to say. I’m just in awe right now. I would like to thank my family in heaven and those that are here today. I just don’t know where to start. Everybody, thank you all”.

Performers on the night included Paul McCartney, U2, Coldplay, Radiohead and MIA, who was there as promised, despite being due to give birth. Rihanna and her partner Chris Brown were supposed to appear but didn’t. More on that later.