Creed, who have been hugely successful in the US charts for more than a year, won four prizes - Song of the Year, for Higher, Welcome to the Big Time, Group of the Year and 2 for 2, reflecting the success of the group's second album, Human Clay.

BBC: Mark Tremonti(l), Scott Stapp, Scott Phillips of Creed

Given its breadth, and the welcome disappearance of the segregated world in which it began, such a song will not be sung again.

ECONOMIST: Twentieth-century lion