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Fri 02 Feb 2010Five Grammy gongs, but Beyoncé missed the big one
REVOLVER:All the breathless reports from this year Grammy Awards have it that Beyoncé Knowles was the biggest winner on the night. Beyoncé won six awards, a new record for most wins by a female performer, and she has been duly anointed “Queen of the Grammys”.
What’s wrong with this picture? Plenty. Beyoncé wasn’t the biggest winner on the night – that was a 21-year-old woman who could probably walk down Grafton Street without being recognised. But Beyoncé takes good picture, and in today’s media that’s enough to distort the real story.
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