Photos: 56th Grammy Awards performers

Queens of the Stone Age’s “¿Like Clockwork” is nominated for Best Rock Album and Best Engineered Album, and the single “My God Is The Sun” is up for Best Rock Performance.   (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Nine Inch Nails’ “Hesitation Marks” will compete for Best Alternative Album Grammy night.  (Alex Garcia / Chicago Tribune)

Musician Taylor Swift is nominated for country duo/group performance.  (Scott Barbour / Getty Images)

Kendrick Lamar has seven nominations: new artist, album of the year and rap album for “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City,” R&B performance for “How Many Drinks?” (with Miguel), rap performance for “Swimming Pools (Drank),” rap/sung collaboration for “Now or Never” (with Mary J. Blige), and rap song for “... Problems” (with Tauheed Epps, Aubrey Graham, Rakim Mayers & Noah Shebib).  (Chris McKay / WireImage)

Keith Urban is nominated in the category of country duo/group performance.  (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

Singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves’ “Merry Go ‘Round” is nominated for country song.  (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis will perform and are nominated for album of the year, music video, song of the year, new artist, rap performance, rap song and rap album.  (Theo Wargo / Getty Images for Clear Channel)

Recording artist John Legend is nominated for R&B album.  (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)

Sara Bareilles, nominated for album of the year and pop solo performance, will perform with Carole King.  (Christopher Polk / Getty Images for the People’s Choice Awards)

Paul McCartney will be performing at a post-Grammys show tribute to the Beatles, “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles.”  (Andrew Winning/Reuters )

Pink, pictured, and Ruess are nominated for song of the year (with Jeff Bhasker) and pop duo/group performance for “Just Give Me a Reason.”  (Steve C.Mitchell / EPA)

Daft Punk -- nominated for record of the year, engineered album-non-classical, dance album and pop duo/group performance -- will perform with Nile Rodgers, Pharrell Williams and Stevie Wonder.  (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

Imagine Dragons is nominated for record of the year and rock performance for “Radioactive.”  (Mark Venema / Getty Images for MTV)

Seven-time Grammy winner Willie Nelson, right, and two-time Grammy winner Merle Haggard will be part of the performances.  (The Washington Post / Getty Images)

Blake Shelton is nominated for country solo performance for “Mine Would Be You” and country album for “Based on a True Story.”  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Kris Kristofferson is a three-time Grammy winner and 2014 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Ringo Starr will be performing at a post-Grammys show tribute to the Beatles, “The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles.”  (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)