James Durbin -- that mythical creature with the tail from season 10 -- returned with blonde ambition to scream "Higher Than Heaven, " off his debut album Memories of a Broken Disaster.

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He's been lured by Alcina, and shows up riding on a mythical flying creature called a hippogriff.

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