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O Music Awards Dance Record Attempt Not Weird Guinness Music Record

Posted 10/5/11 12:42 pm EST by in Eminem, Janet-Jackson, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift


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If you've ever seen "Grease," you know that dance-offs were a thing back in the 1950s. But MTV's O Music Awards are updating the bop-till-you-drop tradition with an attempt to break the Guinness World record with an upcoming shot at snagging the 55-hour dance marathon title.

Some dedicated hoofers will trying to keep it poppin' right up until the second the O Music Awards kick off at 11:30 PM on October 31 in Los Angeles.

That got us thinking about other wacky music-related records tallied by Guinness and, believe it or not, trying to dance for more than two days is not close to the strangest record in the books.

Here are a few of our favorites: Read More...

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Who Is Taylor Hicks' Mystery 'Megastar'?

Posted 7/10/08 8:00 am EST by in American Idol, Music


By Garth Bardsley

On Tuesday night, we swung around the corner from our Times Square offices to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where "American Idol" season-five champ Taylor Hicks is cutting his teeth on Broadway, playing the part of the Teen Angel in the most recent revival of "Grease."

The silver-haired "Soul Patrol" leader gave us a tour around the theater, which is actually a bit of a reality-show mecca. Besides Hicks, the show's two leads, Max Crumm (Danny) and Laura Osnes (Sandy) were found via the little-watched NBC show "You're the One That I Want." And then there's Cody Green, who won Bravo's even littler-watched "Step It Up and Dance" while a member of the Grease ensemble.

Hicks is also writing lots of songs, mainly for his own use on his sophomore album coming out in the fall. But he spilled the beans that a certain "megastar" has one of his songs on hold to possibly record. He wouldn't say who, but he did let it drop that the singer is a female.

Any guesses? Is Tina Turner gonna rock on a harmonica-filled blues tune penned by Hicks? Whitney Houston? Grace Jones???

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