The superfans
Dedicated and highly passionate, the superfans will be on hand each week to comment on how they feel the tribute acts measure up to their musical superstars.
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Madonna
James Harknett, Hayley Rouse and Lisa Stallard
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James has seen Madonna in concert 77 times and owns a memorabilia collection worth a quarter of a million pounds including her costumes from Evita. Hayley owns over 130 Madonna records and has two Madonna tattoos and Lisa once spent £650 on a single Madonna concert ticket.
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Diana Ross
Jim Waugh, Ian Phillips and Graham Read
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These three have all been fans of Diana Ross since her Supremes days and between them have been to over 200 of her concerts. During the Eighties, Graham drove to Diana's concerts in his Diana-mobile – a car painted pink with Diana's name written all over it.
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Kylie Minogue
Sally Tribe, Dion Padan and Elle Richardson
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Between them they have seen the pop princess in concert more than 50 times and Elle has met Kylie on many occasions. Sally styles herself as Kylie and has learnt the moves to almost all of her dance routines. Dion's prized possession is an autograph he got from Kylie when he bumped into her in a department store.
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Dusty Springfield
Simon Bell, Carole Gibson and Jane Northam
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Simon's story is unique among superfans as he started as a young fan in the Sixties and went on to become Dusty's regular backing singer and close friend – they even used to share a house together. Carole saw Dusty perform more than 20 times and met her on several occasions and Jane works for the Dusty fan club and wrote the club's biography of the star.
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Cher
Andrew Lennard, Daniel Wainwright and Jean Gillies
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Jean has been a dedicated fan for over 30 years and as a singing teacher is inspired by Cher's unique
voice. Andrew has more than 200 Cher records including some very rare editions and even owns a beach ball that belonged to Cher. Daniel has spent thousands on his memorabilia collection.
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Robbie Williams
Richard Sweetman, Kerry Wordley and Tom Wordley
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These guys are an entire family (two brothers and a sister) of Robbie superfans from his hometown of Stoke-on-Trent. They have been fans since the Take That days and have seen him many times. Kerry has even met the man himself at a specially-arranged intimate concert.
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Elton John
Richard Booth, David Wright and Stephen Waller
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Between them they have seen Sir Elton more than 200 times in concert. Richard is the editor of Elton's UK fan site (eltonjohnrocks.com), David has edited Elton's fanzine Hercules and Stephen is a classical composer who's knowledge of Elton's music arrangements is second-to-none.
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Lionel Richie
Barbara de Hinbo, Chris Debolotte and Manouche Kaftel
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Barbara is the Vice-President of Lionel's international fan club and has seen him in concert 50 times including in Las Vegas – Lionel even knows her by name. She is ably supported by life-long fans Chris and Manouche.
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Frank Sinatra
Barbara Kealy, Chris Laing and Ken Oldham
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Barbara saw the real live Frank in concert several times, and she even received a kiss from the man himself after his Royal Albert Hall shows in 1984. Chris spent thousands putting together a Sinatra-style big band.
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Rod Stewart
Gordon McDonald, Rick Lowe and Barbara Clarke-Tune
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Collectively they have seen Rod more than 300 times and spent close to £40,000 following their idol. Barbara even keeps a life-sized cut-out of Rod in her bedroom. Gordon hasn't missed one of Rod's Scottish concerts in 30 years.
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