Five awards for Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Both singers won all five Grammys they were nominated for: country collaboration with vocals, contemporary folk/Americana album, pop collaboration with vocals, record of the year for Please Read The Letter, and album of the year for the critically acclaimed \'Raising Sand\'.

Lil Wayne
New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne was the leading nominee with eight nominations. Eventually he won three Grammy awards: for best rap solo performance, best rap song plus \'Tha Carter III\' - featuring drums by Darius \"Deezle\" Harrison and Swizz Beatz plus Kanye West among others as producers - was awarded as rap album of the year.

Coldplay
British rock band Coldplay, nominated seven times, also had to settle for a trio of awards. Drummer Will Champion and his band won Grammys for best pop performance by a duo or group with vocals, and song of the year (Viva La Vida) plus best rock album (for \'Viva La Vida\').

Adele
British pop singer Adele was named best new artist; She also picked up the award for best female pop vocal performance for her hit Chasing Pavements.

Duffy
Duffy bagged a Grammy for \'Rockferry\', featuring Makoto Sakamoto, Martin Slattery and Bernard Butler on drums, as best pop vocal album.

More Grammy award winners
Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain worked with Mickey Hart of the rock band Grateful Dead, Nigerian percussionist Sikiru Adepoju and Puerto Rican jazz percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo for the album \'Global Drum Project\' and they took away the award for best contemporary world music album.

Jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette picked up a Grammy in the category beste new age album, for \'Peace Time\'.

Lars Ulrich and his fellow rockers of Metallica cashed two Grammy awards: as best metal performance (My Apocalypse, from their album \'Death Magnetic\') and as best recording package.

Daft Punk, the duo consisting of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, won two Grammy Awards for \'Alive 2007\' and its single Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger as best electronic/dance album and best dance recording, respectively.

John Mayer, who was up for five Grammy Award nominations this year, was honoured with an award for best male pop vocal performance.

The Mars Volta won in the category best hard rock performance with their song Wax Simulacra from the album \'The Bedlam in Goliath\'. A compliment for genius drummer Thomas Pridgen and his band.

The Eagles picked up a Grammys as best pop instrumental performance for I Dreamed There Was No War. The track comes from the album \'Long Road out of Eden\', featuring good old Don Henley on drums along with percussion luminaries Lenny Castro, Luis Conte and Scott Crago.

The Grammy for best contemporary r&b album was awarded to Mary J Blige for her album \'Growing Pains\', featuring Chris \"Tricky\" Stewart, Jazze Pha and The Neptunes among others as beat creators and producers.

Dutch beatcreator/producer/dj Junkie XL (Tom Holkenborg), was nominated for his remix of Madonna’s 4 Minutes, but went home empty handed.

Live collaborations
The many live performances that took up most of the evening\'s screen time. Collaboration seemed the theme of this year\'s Grammys. Radiohead performed with the University of Southern California marching band USC Trojan, Foo Fighter\'s Dave Grohl joined Sir Paul McCartney on drums to add extra thunder to I Saw Her Standing There, and the Jonas Brothers were joined by Motown legend Stevie Wonder - to give you a few examples of unique collaborations.

You can find a complete list of all winners at the 51st edition of the Grammy Awards at www.grammy.com.