Good grief, one chairman, John Yorkston of Dunfermline has even asked fans to take a shovel to East End Park to dig, not for victory but to find grass!

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" This was a serious statement from one of John's good friends, an African American ex-gang member from Detroit who, as John said, "would die for me now, just like I'd die for him.

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"What was broadcast to the world was nowhere near as good as what was received, " said John Sarkissian, of the CSIRO Parkes Observatory in Australia, one of the three tracking stations that taped the original footage before sending it on to Houston in converted form.

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Pop star Kylie Minogue saluted her as "one of my earliest musical inspirations", while Sir Elton John said "her records sound as good today as they ever did".

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