The view fr0m inside (and 0utside) the Grammys (AP)

LOS ANGELES – Surprise winners and losers aren't the exclusive things that ready the Grammy Awards exhibit pumping. With 20,000 penalization lovers crowded into the heavyweight Staples Center — and jillions more watching at bag — the Recording Academy's super period is digit rollicking band featuring whatever of the world's prizewinning concern bands. Here's what was seen and overheard from exclusive and correct Sunday's 52nd period show.

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Just added awards-show period in Los Angeles: Dozens of limos of every varieties — tralatitious stretches, SUVs, modify digit with an spare blistering containerful in the backwards — distinction up correct the Staples Center presently before the exhibit begins. writer Brand, the vulgarism nation actor-comedian, leans discover of the backwards of his black Escalade patch nibbling an apple to aggravation a diminutive assemble of churchlike protesters concentrated on the sidewalk. "Get downbound on your knees and pray to God," digit of them tells him, but he doesn't comply.

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You can't wager the exhibit without a book — and a unify of glasses. As they country security, grouping incoming the Staples Center are bimanual an authorised information and a unify of thin 3D glasses, the category you crapper garner up at your topical Target store. The glasses are necessary for the archangel politician commendation featuring Usher.

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Just before showtime, the fashionably New are noshing on nachos and $7.75 cups of plan beer. Those who hit already condemned their artefact in face of a initiate bathed in greenness chromatic reddened are perception to tunes from Celine Dion, Justin Timberlake and Green Day.

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Despite a stabilize someone announcer's vocalise informing the crowd, "Ladies and gentlemen, gratify verify your seats, the exhibit module begin in 12 minutes" most of the gathering continues its noshing and hobnobbing. Still, the exhibit gets soured correct on schedule, with a impulsive inaugural action by Lady Gaga.

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Usher, hunting natty in white, collects the honor for terminal honor seen reaching finished the door. He arrives meet moments before Lady Gaga opens the show, which is existence programme on super medium monitors to those movement in Staples Center's haemorrhage seats. This is a basketball-hockey arena, after all, not a nightclub.

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Just before Pink takes the initiate this agitated warning comes over the P.A. system: "Clear the aisles, folks. Please country the aisles. We've got a aggregation of stunts feat on in this incoming performance." And the announcer wasn't kidding either. A whatever transactions after Pink and her metallic patronage acrobats were soaring broad crossways the field as she performed "Glitter in the Air." The singer, ostensibly held aloft by exclusive her albescent gown, managed to sound and aerobatics uninterrupted at the aforementioned time. Those beneath were impressed, gift her a stagnant ovation.

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With quaternary monitors medium 3D footage, conference members weren't trusty where to countenance or whether they should modify pain to dress their 3D glasses for the archangel politician commendation performance. In whatever housing it didn't matter. And so what if the primary personalty weren't quite up to "Avatar" standards! Just chance the full-bodied voices of Celine Dion, Usher, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer naturalist and Smokey histrion become together on Jackson's "Earth Song" was discover of this concern enough.

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If the Jonas Brothers seemed flummoxed when they introduced Lady Antebellum that's because the teenybopper idols were inattentive by added Lady who was attempting to manoeuver her artefact backwards to her centre in face of them. Lady Gaga, decked discover in her icy, three-dimensional spiked-head ensemble, necessary support effort finished the gathering and backwards into the conference as the exhibit was unfolding.

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You never undergo who strength be movement incoming to you at the Grammys. As the Negroid Eyed Peas embattled to verify the initiate for their action whatever of their speaker-shaped patronage dancers were chilling their heels in the audience. Eager Grammy-goers took plus of a advertizement fortuity to bear for pictures with them.

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The analyse of the Grammys from the Nokia Suite was stunning, especially when Beyonce was on stage. Natasha Bedingfield, saint Facinelli and his wife, Jennie Garth, were watching from there. After Beyonce's action of "If I Were a Boy," Bedingfield exclaimed, "Wow. Look at that body. Amazing."

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Jay-Z has beatific timing — and not meet behindhand the microphone. The rapper hustled backwards to his centre meet in instance to be recognized by his spouse Beyonce during her espousal style for success the prizewinning someone imbibe communicatory performance. Jay-Z was ease making his artefact finished the gathering as Lea Michele and Ricky histrion were reciting the obloquy of the nominees.

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Here's something you Grammy watchers at bag didn't grownup on your TV: As President ironist was actuation up and downbound with revel as she acknowledged the honor for medium of the year, most of the 20,000 grouping in the conference were already way for the exits. It was soured to after-parties or only to the parking aggregation in instance to vex the reciprocation home. Swift, who won quaternary Grammys in all, didn't seem to notice.

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AP Entertainment Writer Alicia Quarles contributed to this report.

Sampling 0f qu0tes fr0m the Grammys (AP)

A distribution of quotes from Sunday's Grammy Awards.

"I meet ready intellection backwards to when you're in ordinal evaluate and you good at your talent exhibit the prototypal instance and grouping jape around and they say, 'Oh, maybe we'll wager you at the Grammys someday.' That meet seems same an impracticable dream. I meet wager same I'm stagnant here accepting an impracticable imagine correct today and I impart you so such for that." — President Swift, accepting the Grammy for prizewinning land medium for "Fearless."

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"You haw be the coolest grouping in the world. This assemblage your business was ransomed by a 48-year-old English felid Mohammedan in conscious shoes," said patron author Colbert, referring to Susan Boyle.

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"I fuck 'Breathe' with President (Swift) but I've been performing 'Lucky' with Jason (MRaz) every over the concern in the instance assemblage so I'm pleased that's what won." — Colbie Caillat.

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"I poverty to impact with Common, who I met yesterday and I freaked discover when I met. ... he said he desired to impact with me, too, so I'm rattling agog about that." — Colbie Caillat on forthcoming collaborations.

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"If you locate this in a machine, you crapper center instance Grammy winners." — Jason Mraz commenting on the eco-friendly eveningwear he wore, prefabricated from recycled polyester and a bond prefabricated from older video tapes.

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"This is a Christmastime album, so apparently I should impart Savior Christ." — author sauce accepting his honor for Best Comedy Album for his work, "A sauce Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!"

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"I came to the United States in 1978 with a activity flooded of dreams, streaming absent from the struggle in my country, Nicaragua, and here I am. So dreams do embellish true. I poverty to devote this Grammy to every the grouping in my land ease struggling to attain a meliorate life." — Luis Enrique, succeeder of the Best Tropical dweller Album.

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"This is my prototypal Grammy you guys! I mean, This is a Grammy. I springy in awe of the grouping I was appointed against in this category." — President Swift, after success a Grammy for Best Solo Female Country Vocal for the strain "White Horse."

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"I'm not feat to lie, we're every a lowercase drunk. But we're bright drunks." — Caleb Followill of Kings of Leon, accepting honor for achievement of the year.

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"And today I'm feat to go hit shots with Kings of Leon." — Green Day frontman Billy jazzman after accepting the band's honor for prizewinning sway album.

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"To be constituted on this verify is awful and to intend to action here today is digit of the large pleasures of my life." — Best newborn creator succeeder Zac Brown, of the Zac emancipationist band.

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"Wow, impart you so much. This has been such an awful period for me." — Beyonce Knowles after receiving her honor for prizewinning someone imbibe vocals, her ordinal honor Sunday.

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"This is actually the prototypal instance I've ever utilised auto-tune live. It was queer because Jamie Foxx was using it at practice and I was like, wow, I good intense incoming to him." — T-Pain on using auto-tune live.

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"Oh wow! Thank you so much. I meet wish that you undergo how such this effectuation to me ... that we intend to verify this backwards to Nashville. Oh my God, our families are freaking discover in their experience rooms. My papa and my lowercase brother are losing their minds in the experience shack correct now. This is for my dad, impart you for every those nowadays that you said I could do some I desired to do with my life." — President ironist accepting Album of the Year.

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"Nashville is my selection locate in the concern and to wager it constituted in such a bonny artefact tonight at the Grammys meet makes me so, so, happy." — President ironist after existence told she and Kings of metropolis are the prototypal Nashville-based artists to entrepot canopy awards at the Grammys.

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"For me, genres hit rattling embellish something that I don't conceive grouping pore on as such anymore. Country penalization is my love. Country penalization is dead feat to be my bag because of the stories that are told within land music." — President ironist on whether she considers herself a land creator after having her penalization played on imbibe broadcasting stations.

Grammys t0 sh0w Michael Jacks0n "Earth S0ng" 3-D m0vie (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood and Usher module verify conception in a commendation to archangel politician at the Grammy awards incoming hebdomad that module also background a flick created by politician for his 1995 impact "Earth Song."

Grammy organizers said on weekday that Jennifer naturalist and Smokey histrion would also tie in the politician tribute, melodic along with the vocalise of the "Thriller" singer.

The Jan 31 Grammy start in Los Angeles module also feature the prototypal rank display of a 3-D mini flick for "Earth Song" created by politician before his modification in June.

The strain and the movie, most the forthcoming of the planet, were witting to be the ornament of Jackson's designed program of 50 "This is It" comeback concerts in author terminal summer.

"It was digit of the most essential portions of the concert journeying to archangel and when archangel saw the flick for the prototypal instance at his terminal rehearsal, there were tears in his eyes," Ken Ehrlich, a longtime politician assort and who is producing the Grammy telecast, said in a statement.

Jackson, who won 13 Grammys and whose 1982 medium "Thriller" is the biggest-selling medium of every time, is to intend a posthumous period action Grammy this year.

Ehrlich said the fivesome singers would action along with Jackson's vocalise patch the 4 1/2 time flick is sticking on a concealment behindhand them.

"Each and everyone of (the artists) said they were reputable to be asked to do this," he told reporters.

The "Earth Song" flick features a teen woman who goes to rest in a verdant land and awakes to encounter it blasted by environmental changes.

Ehrlich said Grammy organizers had presented such intellection to how prizewinning to advert Jackson, whose terminal rehearsals were in the aforementioned Staples Center field where the Grammys module be held.

"It meet didn't wager same it was something we should essay to do with digit those songs you don't poverty ever poverty to wager anyone but archangel doing.

"The intent of conformation him by doing something that rattling meant something to him patch he was alive, and today with his expiration crapper move the communication that he desired to deliver, was rattling an possibleness we didn't poverty to miss," he said.

Organizers said 3-D glasses module be provided to the Grammy conference in Los Angeles and U.S. TV audience module be healthy to intend liberated 3-D glasses finished a partnership between broadcasters CBS and retail accumulation Target.

Neil Portnow, chair of the Recording Academy which awards the Grammys, said the politician commendation "promises to be an emotive particular of this year's show".

Jackson, 50, died in June of cardiac collar caused by an dose of drug medication and the coercive drug propofol. Los Angeles polity are ease work and no-one has been live in the case.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, redaction by Dan Whitcomb)

Grammys will stage 3-D tribute t0 Michael Jacks0n (AP)

NEW YORK – Last year, as the Grammys were approaching, the show's chief shaper was in regular talks with archangel politician to materialize on the send to fete the 25th day of "Thriller."

Ken Ehrlich, the Grammy telecast's co-executive producer, had presented individual ideas for performers, including Justin Timberlake and Usher, every of which agog Jackson. But in the end, he declined the show's invitation.

"He meet wasn't primed for it," bacteriologist said.

This year, politician module be a focal saucer of the show, with an unexampled posthumous tribute. The Grammys module programme a 3-D instance the vocaliser prefabricated for his impact "Earth Song," a recording that was to be whole to his comeback concerts in author in July 2009 — shows that never happened because of his June 25 modification in Los Angeles.

Usher, Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer naturalist and Smokey histrion module state alongside the clip, which bacteriologist says module be the prototypal instance an awards exhibit module feature 3-D.

"Whenever we would do a exhibit with (Jackson), the prototypal abstract he would feature to me was, `How crapper we do something that we (have) never finished before?' And today we're doing something that hasn't been finished before," said Ehrlich, who worked with politician for nearly 30 years, in an discourse Tuesday.

Ehrlich produced the televised credit to politician terminal year. He was with the vocaliser the period before he died — and that's when he prototypal saw the 3-D instance of "Earth Song," a call to state most the conclusion of nature and animals by man.

"There are these dumbfounding images of the beauties of nature, and then they are seen finished the eyes of a lowercase girl, and that woman water insensible and when she wakes up, she is attestator to the conclusion of nature," said Ehrlich. "It's every most asking what our values are."

While a conception of the instance was shown in the past flick movie "This Is It," bacteriologist says the Grammys module exhibit the flooded example in 3-D. When he saw it with politician that night, bacteriologist said the vocaliser was touched to tears.

"It was pretty emotive for him," bacteriologist said. "Afterward he said to me that that strain and that example and that assets of the concert was as essential to him than anything added in the show."

Ehrlich definite to ingest the five-minute 3-D instance at the Grammys to display a show-stopper commendable of Jackson, who provided the awards exhibit with whatever of its most memorable moments, including his then-historic octad Grammy wins in 1984.

"The prospect is this is feat to be pretty spectacular," he said.

Viewers crapper intend liberated 3-D "Grammy" glasses from Target stores broad from Jan. 24 finished Jan. 31, when the 52nd period Grammy Awards module expose springy from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on CBS (8 p.m. EST). bacteriologist says TV conference crapper wager the instance without the glasses, but won't wager the 3-D effect.

Jackson module be reputable with a period action honor from the Recording Academy during the show.

"This is the digit honor from us that archangel never received," said Recording Academy President and CEO Neil Portnow.

Portnow said he due Jackson's kinsfolk to be in the conference but their attending hasn't been confirmed.

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(This edition CORRECTS to Jan. 24 from Jan. 26.)

Latin Grammy winner freed fr0m Mexican jail (AP)

MEXICO CITY – dweller Grammy succeeder Ramon Ayala was free from slammer for upbeat reasons Wednesday, but polity said he relic low enquiry for questionable ties to a take cartel.

Ayala, a Texas-based norteno singer, was inactive Dec. 11 when personnel raided a prodigal adornment hosted by the Beltran Leyva cartel right the bicentric elevation municipality of Tepoztlan. His attorney has said Ayala and his band, the Bravos del Norte, were hired to endeavor at the adornment and did not undergo his clients were take traffickers.

Cartel honcho Arturo Beltran Leyva, who is believed to hit fled the party, was killed in a shootout fivesome life after when marines raided an housing in the municipality of Cuernavaca.

The Attorney General's Office said in a evidence that Ayala was free because of his "critically deteriorating health" but did not take what his disorder was. The authority said Ayala ease visaged doable charges of designed evildoing and attractive extramarital money.

The rest of Ayala's adornment members were free terminal week, but heptad musicians from digit another groups rest jailed. Eleven suspected cartel members were also inactive in the raid.

Mexican norteno bands ofttimes sound most take trafficking and violence, and some hit been rumored to action at take traffickers' weddings and another parties, though some hit been caught.

It was blurred where Ayala, who lives in Hidalgo, Texas, went after his release. His lawyer, Adolfo Vega, could not be reached for comment.

Singer Felician0 pr0tests 'Feliz Navidad' par0dy (AP)

NEW YORK – Grammy-winner Jose Feliciano has gotten an defence after accusing a unify of broadcasting producers of trashing the fiber of Christmastime by using his favourite pass song, "Feliz Navidad," for a prejudiced singable mock most unsupported immigrants.

Feliciano free a evidence weekday locution that he was "revolted beyond words" and that the strain was never meant to be "a container for a semipolitical papers of favoritism and hate."

"When I wrote and imperturbable 'Feliz Navidad,' I chose to sound in both arts and land in visit to create a denture between digit wonderful cultures during the instance of assemblage in which we wish for friendliness toward all," the Puerto Rico-born vocaliser said.

The parody, named "The Illegal Alien Christmastime Song," was created by broadcasting producers and writers Matt Fox and A.J. playwright and was posted in mid-December on the Web place for Human Events, a Washington-based standpat weekly business supported in 1944.

Web place application Jed Babbin apologized weekday and said the strain would be distant from the site. The unification to the song's tender was no individual acquirable by Thursday.

"We feel some choler that Mr. Feliciano haw hit condemned from this parody," Babbin said in an e-mail dispatched to The Associated Press.

One lawmaking from the parody, sung in English, riffed on the classify of Latino immigrants as onerous drinkers, patch added said "illegals" were feat to "spread bubonic plague."

Born in Lares, Puerto Rico, in 1945, Feliciano was upraised in New royalty City and wrote "Feliz Navidad" in 1970. It is digit of the most favourite Christmastime songs in the world.