What with Charlotte Church showing off her new brunette bob, Chris Martin being snapped laughing heartily, and Yoko Ono sliding in a dig at Sir Paul McCartney, the Q music awards had a buzz all of their own quite apart from the announcement of winners.
However, the roll call of success was also gripping. After a few years in the background, Oasis came back in a big way to scoop two gongs, best album for Don't Believe The Truth and the People's Choice award.
Bjork – whose attire was up to her usual unusual standard – took home the Q Inspiration accolade, Scotland's KT Tunstall won best track for Black Horse And The Cherry Tree, and soldier poet James Blunt was named best new act.
Coldplay's Chris Martin, habitually taciturn, was in frolicsome mode on the evening when his band pipped rivals Oasis to the post by winning the best act in the world award. "I send my love to Liam," said Chris on picking up the gong. "We're not in a fight with everyone – except George Bush."
John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono also seized the opportunity to take a dig at an old rival when she collected the Q special award on John's behalf, on what would have been the former Beatle's 65th birthday. She recalled how the songwriter asked her once why Paul McCartney's songs were so covered but not his own. "I said, 'You're a good songwriter. It's not just June with spoon that you write'," the 72-year-old told the audience at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.
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