When it comes to medicine - relatedworld records , Guinness has one for just about every speculation imaginable — and probably some you never would ’ve envisage at all .
The “ large human image of a melodious instrument , ” for example , was a saxophoneformedby 1660 citizenry in Nice , France , as part of 2014 ’s National Music Day . It aim a slenderly small group to earn thedistinctionof “ most people bring musical tubes”—1171 people , to be exact , in the Formosan city of Chengdu in 2019 . And if you were wonder which concert played server to more birth than any other concert in history , theansweris 1969 ’s famously anarchic Altamont Speedway concert in California . The Rolling Stones , Jefferson Airplane , and several other high - visibility medicine radical made appearances , as did four new-sprung babies .
There are Guinness World Records in more conventional categories , too . George Gershwin ’s “ Summertime ” is themost recordedsong of all time ; and the “ Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band , ” a disco music remix of John Williams’sStar Warscompositions from Meco ’s 1977 albumStar Wars and Other Galactic Funk , isconsideredthe best - selling instrumental individual .
Thelongest songever officially released , on the other hand , has yet to reach such mainstream winner — maybe because it ’s a staggering 138 hour , 41 moment , and 20 seconds long . A author and musician diagnose Dr. Jagadeesh Pillai , of Varanasi in the Amerindic state of Uttar Pradesh , nabbed the title on March 5 , 2023 with hiscomposition and recordingof a individual heroic track free-base on the sixteenth - century poemShri Ram Charit Manas . The song contains all 15,000 - plus verses of the poem in the Awadhi language , a version of Hindi . It shoot more than five days to listen to from start to finish .
Pillai ’s achievement edged out the late record holder , “ The Rise and Fall of Bossanova , ” create by Michael and Kelley Bostwick of Palmer , Massachusetts . They released it on November 1 , 2016 , under the creative person name P C III . Its continuance was a mere 13 hours and change .
A version of this write up ran in 2021 ; it has been updated for 2023 .
