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>> news tonight that beyonce lip cinked the national anthem. the washington post tweeting, beyonce lip syncing the star-spangled banner, makes me question the fundamental truths of human existence. and another tweet... says if beyonce lip synced that was best damn lip sync i've seen z justin beiber passes lady gaga as twitter's top user. check out this post from the wife wes welker. she writes proud of my husband and the pack. if anyone is bored go to the wikipedia page. yeah. when a hall of fame player. a true role model after ray after ray lewis and the baltimore ravens beat the playoffs.

>> reporter: facing a train wreck of bad pr, the marine corps band revised its earlier statement. no one in the marine band is in a position to assess whether beyonce's performance was live or prerecorded. an inauguration is supposed to be history, not showbiz. and history is rarely perfect. david wright, abc news, los angeles. >> oh, interesting mystery. we already showed you michael jackson's famous lip-sync. that was from 1983. but how about this one? >> one of the most famous performances, whitney houston's "star-spangled banner" at the super bowl was a lip-sync. she sang into a dead mic. ...

>> but jackson lip-synced the entire song. >> oh, man. >> yes. and now another electrifying performance is under fire. beyonce may have lip-synced the "star spangled banner" and the president's inauguration. abc's david wright has this story. ♪ and the rocket's red glare >> reporter: right down to that dramatic flourish with the ear piece, her performance was picture perfect. but was she just acting? earlier the marine corps band confirmed they were just pretending to play their instruments and said flat out beyonce was lip-syncing. a band spokesman told abc news we do not know why she decid...

Also, another soul-stirring performance that was on tape, pavorzi lip-synced at the winter games. it was the last time the public saw him perform. >> and britney spears was caught lip syncing promoting her album. angry fans walked out. >> and millie vanilli, two models who won the grammy for "girl, you know it's true." it was later revealed the duo did not sing a single word. they, of course, were later stripped of their award. ironically, rob on the left, committed suicide years later. >> you can't lip-sync to someone else's voice. you have to lip-sync to your own voice. that's the problem. >...

By the band. that's pretty much protocol in terms of big events like inaugurations and super bowls. you mentioned that's protocol. have there been other cases where celebrities have chosen not to perform live but to the prerecorded version? >> either perform live or perform in lieu or perform as a mix. the much-praised whitney houston performance, the super bowl performance of the national anthem in '91, two months after that, whitney did a concert returning from the gulf war and did an acappella performance of it. the performance was recorded before, half lip-synced, happen performed but bril...