By then, the programme was being unfavourably compared to
Ready, Steady, Go, aired on Fridays and much more youth-orientated.
The studio audience learning to cut a rug as
Ready, Steady, Go is filmed
PACING THEMSELVES Left, runners on the Millennium Bridge; right, Chris McConvill and son Taylor WARM-UP Aerobics fun on the Quayside BEST FEET FORWARD Left, cheering on the runners; right, on the run CHAMPION Race starter Stephen Miller CHEERING THEM ON Runners from the Newcastle Bridges School
READY, STEADY, GO! Runners prepare to run along the city's Quayside to raise money for The Evening Chronicle's Sunshine Fund
She reveals how much she and her backing band, The Luvvers, hated being patronised by plummy English people saying, "Pardon?" when they spoke in their broad Glasgow lilt, how great it felt to see herself on music programme
Ready, Steady, Go for the first time, and how, after her first year in the spotlight, she treated her family to a holiday to Torremolinos in Spain.
It was
ready, steady, go for more than 60 businesses at a speed dating for business event at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
Ready, steady, go: Skateboarder Danny, inset, rolls along the huge ramp at the Great Wall of China; Wall I never: Danny leaps over the massive structure from a height of 121ft to set a new world record
Indeed, it was Dusty who introduced Motown to England, hosting a seminal
Ready, Steady, Go! special that featured the Temptations, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, the Supremes--and Martha and the Vandellas, whom Dusty got to know in 1964, when she traveled to New York to do a mostly Motown holiday show at the Brooklyn Fox theater.
Ready, steady, go The team from Go Safe East Ren launch the campaign
Dusty was 24 at the time and performed the song on TV music shows Top Of The Pops and
Ready, Steady, Go!