Ed was faced with a decision that many workers experience: Go for a shot at love and lose your job -- or stay employed and kiss your love goodbye?

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At the Dome, he will perform Wave The Old World Goodbye from Simply Red's latest album Love And The Russian Winter, alongside the group's guitarist Mark James and saxophonist Ian Kirkham.

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His feelings for his parents also emerge in songs like "123 Goodbye, " which includes the line "I love you more in death than I ever could in life, " though Perkins prefers to sing about these thoughts rather than talk about them.

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Mother and son sing a sad goodbye, as Lycas and the page denounce the treachery of love.

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Evett sang her beautiful showstopper from the TV show, That Old Devil Called Love, while Garlick impressed with Every Time We Say Goodbye.

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The Yankees said that Rivera does not want a glitzy rocking chair goodbye tour, that he prefers to take a little time in each farewell stop to meet with people who love baseball as he does a longtime usher, or a family that has traveled from far away.

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