*** For a list of the 2012 winners & nominees in the top categories, just click here. *** For a list of the 2011 winners & nominees in the top categories, just click here.

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The 54th annual Grammy Awards were given out on Sunday, February 12, 2012, at the Staples Center in downtown L.A.

Adele and the Foo Fighters were the night's big winners.

You can find the names of the key nominees & winners by clicking here.

Last year, the awards were given out on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, at the Staples Center.

You can find the names of all the 2011 winners here.

Performers appearing at the 2010 included Beyoncé, the Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, Pink, Green Day, Lady Gaga, Lady Antebellum, Maxwell, and the Dave Matthews Band.

Presenters included Robert Downey Jr., Quentin Tarantino, Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Seacrest, Seal, Plácido Domingo, Sheryl Crow, Lionel Richie, Kaley Cuoco ("The Big Bang Theory"), Lea Michelle ("Glee"), Chris O'Donnell ("NCIS: Los Angeles"), Wyclef Jean, Juanes, Miranda Lambert, John Legend, Katy Perry, Stephen Colbert, Alice Cooper, and Keith Urban

In 2009, the show was held at the nearby Nokia Theatre.

Performers at the 2009 show included Coldplay, the Jonas Brothers, Kenny Chesney, Lil Wayne, and Katy Perry.

Performers at the 2008 show included Tina Turner, Kid Rock, the Foo Fighters, Josh Groban, Feist, John Fogerty with Jerry lee Lewis and Little Richard, Alicia Keyes, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Aretha Franklin, and many others.

The Grammy Award is the granddaddy of all music awards, dating back over four decades; it is to music what the Oscars are to the movies. (The name "Grammy" is short for "gramophone," since the awards are shaped like those old-fashioned phonographs).

Over the years L.A. and New York had played tug-of-war with the Grammy Awards show. The result? Two thirds of the Grammy ceremonies had been held in Los Angeles, a third in New York City, and once in Nashville. But in 2004, the award show moved back to L.A., and has remained here.

Alas, tickets to the annual Grammy Awards show are not available to the general public; it's "by invitation only" to nominees, recording artists, & record company execs.

(But if you want a more certain way to see many of the same music superstars in person, you'll be happy to learn that tickets are available to the public for the American Music Awards.)