There was also a small contingent of men from the heavy metal industry — musicians, guys who worked at record labels, Web masters of heavy metal sites — dressed in suits, thus making them inconspicuous.
Two-time Grammy winner Paul Williams, the veteran songwriter who was one of the collaborators on the album, delivered the acceptance speech for theatrically silent, helmeted musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter.
According to Billboard, "Random" is the first album by French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter to hit No. 1. Daft Punk's latest release is also the first electronic/dance album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in more than a year.
The Fugazi singer and musician Guy Picciotto has worked closely with Mr. Cohen, first on "Instrument," the 1999 documentary about the band, which drew on 10 years of material, and later when he served as executive producer of "Chain" and now "Museum Hours".
Texas musician Guy Clark wrote and sang the original song "The Randall Knife" as an elegy for his father; the song first appeared on Clark's 1983 album Better Days.
"We're all musicians," the guy, Gregory Mulkern, said.
All the musicians, the guys I grew up with; the guys I met at Berklee; they all say 'yeah, we understand music and we learned it at school,' but everybody has a heart of Rock 'n Roll and Metal and that reckless spirit.
The fact we were able to just take an idea and have that idea come to fruition in such a massive way, just making a song and touring the world together, it just proved to us that as musicians, as guys in a band, there really were no boundaries or no limits to what we can do.
