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Top Half - Johnny Devlin
Television (Excerpts) – 1984
I know that I was pretty upset for a couple af days. In fact I got so upset when it came to doing a tribute to him in Australia that I couldn't go on. So it was pretty devastating.– Johnny Devlin, on dealing with the death of his idol Elvis Presley
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