Led Zeppelin sold 112 million albums but never won a Grammy. Nearly three decades after that band's demise, frontman Robert Plant earned a fistful of statuettes Sunday for what was a studio experiment.
"We gave ourselves three days and said, 'If it doesn't work, we'll take lunch,'" Plant said.
He and bluegrass veteran Alison Krauss ruled the 51st annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Their rootsy "Raising Sand" garnered a leading five awards, including album of the year and record of the year for the track "Please Read the Letter."
"In the old days, we would've called this selling out," Plant quipped in accepting the coveted album of the year nod.
The Plant-Krauss pairing was a genre hopper, also winning for best contemporary folk/Americana album, country collaboration with vocals ("Killing the Blues") and pop collaboration with vocals ("Rich Woman").
The five wins for Krauss padded her lead as the most-honored woman in Grammy history, with a mantel-warping 26.
Lil Wayne, who had the year's biggest-selling album and came into the evening as the leading nominee with eight, was next with four wins. But like Kanye West last year -- and every year -- the rapper was shut out of the big awards, winning only in the rap categories.
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