World's longest concert record set

Japanese musicians overcame fatigue and a major earthquake to set the record for the world’s longest concert today, playing 184 hours nonstop in a programme that ranged from Beatles classics to traditional harp music.

More than 900 musicians aged 6 to 89 took turns performing in the nine-day marathon – with breaks of no more than five minutes between acts – at a small railway station in Hikone city, western Japan, according to organiser Kuniko Teramura, 51.