At WOMAD Festival on Sunday 31 July, Action on Hearing Loss, formerly RNID attempted to break the world record for the largest number of people playing air guitar at the same time.
2,227 people turned up to take part, eclipsing the previous record of 1,883. The crowd played along to Jimi Hendrix’s legendary track Purple Haze.
Read more about our World Record attempt in our News and events section.
Check out the video of Action on Hearing Loss breaking the world record at WOMAD 2011 on Youtube!