Category Archives: make-up

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

April 27, 2009 – 10:03 am

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see also: Paul Potts performing “Nessun Dorma” on Britain’s Got Talent

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Strawberry Fields at Shea Stadium, 2005

January 14, 2008 – 11:59 pm

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Leslie Hall’s “How We Go Out,” 2007

November 24, 2007 – 4:08 pm
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“Borat” (Sasha Baron Cohen) performing “In My Country There Is A Problem” at the Country West, Arizona, 200?

September 21, 2007 – 5:04 pm
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Bob Dylan performing “Love Sick” with “Soy Bomb” (Michael Portnoy) on the 1998 Grammy Awards Broadcast, February 25, 1998

September 18, 2007 – 12:05 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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Wing performing “In The Ghetto,” Wellington, NZ, March, 2007

September 15, 2007 – 11:30 am
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