"U2 is the greatest band of the last 25 years," says British magazine that needed an award to give U2

Among them: Queen’s induction into the “Q Hall Of Fame,” a “Q Inspiration” award (whatever that means) for Fatboy Slim, a “Q Icon” award for Noel Gallagher (again, whatever that means and however it’s supposed to be different from “Q Inspiration”), the deigning of Take That’s Gary Barlow as a “Classic Songwriter” (whatever those words mean now, given their new context), and perhaps most indicative of Q’s tendency toward vaguely defined effusive praise, the awarding of “Best Act In The World Today” to Coldplay, presumably because they already took home the “Seriously Soooooo Awesome, You Guys” trophy last year. Coldplay’s Chris Martin, however, balked at their win, claiming that Coldplay were “about seventh” in the world, and that the best band in the world today is still U2. Still, Martin could take solace in the fact that U2 was recognized as the equally capricious “Greatest Act Of The Last 25 Years,” a title they will own until a couple of years from now, when Q forgets and gives it out again to Oasis or Muse.