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hi my is Rita Gilligan and I'm
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Hard Rock's rock-and-roll I
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started walking of the Hard Rock Cafe on
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the 14th of 1971
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I needed this job I was the
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job I needed the job you know cuz
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nowhere else could give me a job- was old at that
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time- today it's a lot different but 29
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at my time was old so I said to... I said:
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listen! I'm the best you could I said
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you'd better me so he went back in his
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chair put his up; gave me a high
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five , 'e said: "I want to now"- and
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that's how I started
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you've got the Beatles coming in, the
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Stones, Freddie Mercury, Eric Clapton it
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was a great place for always
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in and it was just a really fun place
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Burger over back then was about 65
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pence; a milkshake was 20 ; hot Fudge
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Sundae there was 25 pence and to today's
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prices but life changes and
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I got an for just serve the public
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which I enjoyed every second of so
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the 28th of April 1998 we the
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ceremony at the Hard Rock Cafe
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London as I believe and have I walked
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anywhere else I probably would have
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gotten I was Rita and I got an MB
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and I am so so happy and it
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means of a lot to me
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Hard Rock Cafe Piccadilly is our
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European flagship cafe and so
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our first time to showcase our modern
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vision of course we got David Bowie the
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down here and the last outfit he
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wore as Ziggy
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Stardust; Lady Gaga's
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And just up a little bit we got our
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Ed Eheeran I mean I've gone 20
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25 years ago with Ed Sheeran it's gotta
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be our Ed
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he's global he's lovely he's he's
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the best and he's our Ed, he's the world's Ed
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Ed Sheeran we love you the world
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loves you
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I'm forty.. going to my year and
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I've traveled the world I started as a
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waitress today Andy I've opened 164 Hard
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Rock Cafe is and I've got
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about eight hotels just before Christmas
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so I'm not doing bad I just loved my job