“The robot would like to thank” The French electro duo Daft Punk admits at the Grammy Awards five Rates from, also Survivng Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr got back together on stage at this year’s Grammys to perform a new song.

Huge success for Daft Punk at the Grammys: The French electro pop duo took at the presentation of the coveted U.S. music awards on Sunday evening (local time) in Los Angeles with his record “Random Access Memories” trophy for best album of the year. Previously, the two Frenchmen had been awarded for the song “Get Lucky” together with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers in the categories “Best Single of the Year” and “Best Popdarbietung by a Duo / Group”.

Behind Daft Punk, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, who always show up at their performances only with robot helmets hide. Even when the music awards gala at the Staples Center, the musicians hid their faces behind helmets and the trophies brought silence from. “The robot would like to thank”, Pharrell Williams joked when accepting the trophy for the single of the year. “I bet that France is just really proud of these guys.”

In the competition for the best single of the year, “Get Lucky” set against “Radioactive” by the American rock band Imagine Dragons, “Locked Out Of Heaven” by R & B singer Bruno Mars, “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke and “Royals” of by Lorde. But the 17-year old New Zealander Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O’Connor, who hides behind the pseudonym Lorde, nevertheless could be satisfied with the evening: She won the award for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance in range.

The award for top album beat Daft Punk, U.S. pop singer Sara Bareilles (“The Blessed Unrest”), the U.S. rapper Kendrick Lamar (“Good Kid, MAAD City”), the rapper Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Duo (“the Heist”) and Taylor Swift (“Red”) from the field. For Swift, it was a disappointing night: In none of the four categories in which she was nominated, won the Country-pop singer.

Grammy Music Awards:That big surprise Beatles reunite and sing again

Yoko Ono – widow of the late John Lennon – was among those dancing in the audience in Los Angeles as the music legends performed Sir Paul’s song Queenie Eye.

Lennon’s son Sean danced alongside his mother as McCartney played the piano and Starr took to his drums.

Olivia Harrison, the widow of fellow late Beatle George Harrison, and the wives of Sir Paul and Starr were also at Staples Center for the awards.

After their duet the pair held hands as they embraced and bowed to a standing ovation.

The performance – 50 years after the Beatles first appearance in the US – was only the fourth time they had appeared on stage together since a 2002 concert to honour Harrison.

The Beatles won eight Grammys during their illustrious career, including best new artist in 1964 and album of the year for Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.

They are the best-selling band in history, with more than one billion unit sales worldwide.

Sir Paul McCartney, 71, also proved members of the Fab Four can still trump the Rolling Stones when his collaboration with Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear, entitled Cut Me Some Slack, beat the veteran British band’s Doom and Gloom to the best rock song award.

After teaming up with Grohl and and former member of Nirvana to perform the song, he said: “It was magic for me playing with these guys.

“I found myself in the middle of a Nirvana reunion and I was very happy.”

Earlier in the night Starr, 73, performed his solo offering Photograph and actress Julia Roberts announced the Beatles will receive the 2014 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award next month.

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