MIAMI (AP):
ROCK WAS resplendent at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, as the veteran punk group Green Day took home seven moonmen and newcomers The Killers and Fall Out Boy won one each.
Green Day, who arrived at the venue in the vintage green convertible from their gritty Boulevard of Broken Dreams video, won best rock video and video of the year for the clip-two of their leading eight nominations. They also won the viewer's choice award, best group and several technical
categories, losing only to Gwen Stefani's What You Waiting For? for art direction.
In recent years, hip-hop and pop have dominated the show, especially in the major categories. Not this year: My Chemical Romance and Coldplay were among the showcase performances, and Kanye West was the only rapper to win an "all-genre" award, with his Jesus Walks taking best male video.
"It's great to know that rock music still has a place at MTV," said Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong.
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The Killers won for best new artiste. Fall Out Boy won the MTV2 award for their song Sugar, We're Going Down, beating out artistes like Mike Jones, My Chemical Romance and reggaeton star, Daddy Yankee.
But Pete Weintz of Fall Out Boy downplayed the "rock is resurgent" angle. "Whatever is going to happen is going to happen organically," he told The Associated Press backstage. "The return of rock doesn't mean anything else is going away."
Before the awards began, MTV dodged two major disasters - one from nature, the other from the barrel of a gun.
The annual bash was briefly overshadowed by Hurricane Katrina, which hit southern Florida on Thursday and killed several people. As the storm passed, a celebratory mood took over the city - until early Sunday morning, when rap mogul Suge Knight was targeted by gunfire at a Kanye West party.
Knight was shot in the leg and scheduled for surgery at a Miami hospital; his lawyers would not release his condition, which was not expected to be life-threatening.
