Category Archives: elaborate staging

Susan Boyle performs “I Dreamed A Dream” on Britain’s Got Talent

April 27, 2009 – 10:03 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OcQ9A-5noM “Embedding disabled by request” see also: Paul Potts performing “Nessun Dorma” on Britain’s Got Talent

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John McCain performs “Bomb Iran,” 2007

June 18, 2008 – 1:37 pm
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Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performing “Rock Your Body” on the 2004 Superbowl Broadcast, February 1, 2004

September 18, 2007 – 12:00 pm
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Elvis Presley performing “In The Ghetto,” Las Vegas, NV, February 1970 (?)

September 15, 2007 – 11:58 am
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