The song was originally written for movie and recording star Divine, who was unable to record the song before his death in 1988.

He also played for Millonarios and Deportivo Cali before joining Montpellier of the French First Division in 1988.

Chelsea won the Second Division title in 1983 – 84 and established themselves in the top division, before being relegated again in 1988.

( In one strip, published March 20, 1988, the vice president almost materialized, but only made it to an outline before reverting to invisibility.

Notably, from 1985 to 1988, author and television writer Hugh Miller wrote seventeen novels, detailing the lives of many of the show's original characters before 1985, when events on screen took place.

From June 2007 on, data indicated a moderate La Niña event, which strengthened in early 2008 and weakened before the start of 2009 ; the 2007 – 2008 La Niña event was the strongest since the 1988 – 1989 event.

In 1988, Enzo Ferrari oversaw the launch of the Ferrari F40, the last new Ferrari to be launched before his death later that year, and arguably one of the most famous supercars ever made.

A television cartoon show, Garfield and Friends aired for seven seasons from 1988 to 1994 ; this adaption also starred Music as the voice of Garfield, one of the very last times Lorenzo Music would voice the character was in Garfield's Phone Messages from the Official Garfield site before his death.

The Brothers Grime was a three-video cartoon-pornography series produced by Excalibur Films in 1986, 1987, and 1988, using titles primarily from the Cream Lemon series, the most popular of Japan's erotic anime before Urotsukidoji.

Following his victory in The Masters golf tournament in 1988, Scottish golfer Sandy Lyle chose to serve haggis at the annual Champions Dinner before the 1989 Masters.

The adoption of the ITRs in 1988 is often taken as the start of the wider liberalization process in international telecommunications, though a few countries, including United States and United Kingdom, had made steps to liberalize their markets before 1988.

These compilations featured nearly every game produced by Infocom before 1988.

After the Tuomi murder, Dahmer continued to kill sporadically: two more murders in 1988, and another in early 1989, usually picking up his victims in gay bars and having sex with them before killing them.

Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby ( 1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988 ) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union.

Though Seoul completed a " Peace Dam " on the Pukhan River to counteract the potential threat of Pyongyang's dam project before the 1988 Olympics, the North Korean project apparently still was in its initial stages of construction in 1990.

The band recorded two albums in 1988 and 1990, though Orbison died before the second was recorded.

Buran completed one unmanned orbital spaceflight in 1988 before its cancellation in 1993.

In 1988 Amstrad attempted to make the first affordable portable personal computer with the PPC512 and 640 models, introduced a year before the Macintosh Portable.

He dropped the case in 1988, before it came to trial and paid McCloskey's court costs.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Hecht, Anthony: " Clair de lune " ( before 1977 ); Nyhart, Nina: " Captive Pierrot " ( 1988 ; after the Paul Klee painting above under # Works on canvas, paper, and board | Works on Canvas, Paper and Board ); Peachum, Jack: " Our Pierrot in Autumn " ( 2008 ).

* Selected Stories ( 1988 )-nine from Hunger, three from Yonder, eight from Night Ride, one from Best, eight never before anthologized

It was the last novel published before he died in 1988.

The Final Concert Tour: Johnny Young, The Young Talent Team and The New Generation performed a series of concerts just before Christmas 1988.

Just eight weeks before her death she performed at a World Expo ' 88 variety concert at the Lyric Theatre in Brisbane ( 26 – 27 October 1988 ).

Media reports in 1969 and 1988 on foods popular among Mormons or in Utah make no mention of Jello, and a 1988 articles mentions Jello as being a Lutheran tradition.

As both Osco and its photofinishing market share grew, three more photo plants were added: Alves Photo Service Braintree, Massachusetts in 1980, Rich Photo Lab Salt Lake City, Utah in 1984 and Drewry Photocolor Burbank, California in 1987 renamed to Crest Photo in 1988.

Utah advanced to the NBA Finals both times that they defeated the Lakers, while LA has advanced to the Finals each year they defeated Utah in a series, winning NBA Championships in 1988, 2009, and 2010.

In 1988, Vaughan contributed vocals to an album of Christmas carols recorded by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with the Utah Symphony Orchestra and sold in Hallmark Cards stores.

* Peterson, Fred, 1988, " Stratigraphy and nomenclature of Middle and Upper Jurassic rocks, western Colorado Plateau, Utah and Arizona, IN Revisions to stratigraphic nomenclature of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of the Colorado Plateau ", U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1633-B, p. B13-56

This regrouping of the 1988 – 1991 line up of Rockapella was originally scheduled to occur only twice: once as a practice gig on July 26, 2008, and a second time at the 2008 A Cappellastock in Ogden, Utah on August 23.

The league, which combined teams from the defunct Atlantic Coast Hockey League and All-American Hockey League, began play as the East Coast Hockey League in 1988 with 5 teams — the ( Winston-Salem, North ) Carolina Thunderbirds ( now the Wheeling Nailers ); the Erie Panthers ( folded after 2011 as the Victoria Salmon Kings ); the Johnstown Chiefs ( now the Greenville Road Warriors ); the Knoxville Cherokees ( ceased operations as the Pee Dee Pride after 2005 ; folded after 2009 following failed relocation efforts ); and the Virginia Lancers ( now the Utah Grizzlies ).

RAD Game Tools began in 1988 as a Windows programming and consulting company located in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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* Jerry Sloan ( born 1942 ), American basketball player and coach, most famous for his long tenure ( 1988 – 2011 ) as coach of the Utah Jazz

Longarm and the Utah Killers ( 1988 )

The first game played by the Heat in their first home was a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, 111-91, on November 5, 1988 ; the first victory came a month and a half later against the Utah Jazz, 101-80.

In 1988, Goodwin built the climbing wall for the First International Sport Climbing Championship which was held at Snowbird, Utah, where he served as a commentator for CBS Sports.

Dr. Julian DeLia began investigating TTTS in 1983 and pioneered fetoscopic placental laser surgery in 1988 at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

* William Lee Stokes, Geology of Utah ( Salt Lake City ; Utah Museum of Natural History ; 1988 ) ISBN 0-940378-05-1

In 1987 he presented a paper at the international conference of the Mormon History Association in Oxford, where he started a long-lasting co-operation with Swiss historian Jean-François Mayer and with the Utah lawyer and historian Michael W. Homer, which would eventually lead to the establishment of CESNUR in 1988.

* JB's ( Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming, Washington, California, New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas, New Jersey ); 1961 – 1988, founded by Jack M. Broberg ) No longer a Big Boy franchisee, it continues in operation, now known as Summit Family Restaurants.

* Todd Campbell, Author of Beyond Slickrock, Rides With Helmet Cam at Slickrock, Moab, Utah, 1988

In 1988 SLGCC ( Salt Lake Gay Community Center ) incorporated and became Gay and Lesbian Community Council of Utah

He next enrolled at Princeton University in 1988 using the alias Alexi Indris-Santana, a self-taught orphan from Utah ; Hogue claimed in his application materials that he had slept outside in the Grand Canyon, raising sheep and reading philosophers.

After being named the offensive coordinator of Utah State University, Billick improved the second-worst offense in Division I-A into a top-10 offense in only three seasons ( 1986 – 1988 ).