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Richard Gehr | February 12, 2007

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The Dixie Chicks were boycotted and excoriated for singer Natalie Maines's 2003 comments about President Bush. Lo and behold, the country-girl group's musical rebuttal, "Not Ready to Make Nice," ended up winning a Grammy for song of the year. "For the first time in my life, I'm speechless," said Maines by way of acceptance.

The only reason to watch the Awards, of course, is for the performances, which haven't arrived on YouTube yet. The reunited Police performed "Roxanne," Christina Aguilera wailed her way through James Browns's "It's a Man's, Man's Man's World," and Gnarls Barkley added an orchestra to the ceremony's shoulda-been best-song winner, "Crazy."

Find out who won which award here.

Enjoy pretty pictures of the festivities here.

And let Billboard sum it up for you here.

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