Czechs go crazy as pop singer Gott turns 80
(Artdaily.org)

Hundreds of people from home and abroad queued in steady rain in central Prague on Sunday to buy a `Zero Euro` souvenir banknote depicting Czech pop singer Karel Gott in honour of his 80th birthday. Some eager fans and collectors had waited for days, arriving as early as Thursday, to buy the zero-denomination banknote for the equivalent of two euros from special ATMs in the shop of a local record company. One fan, Lukas Gandzala, said he had slept outside the store after coming all the way from the northern Slovak city of Poprad, some 450 kilometres (280 miles) from Prague. `We arrived at 6:00 am on Saturday. We slept in sleeping bags on the pavement,` he told AFP. `We collect the banknotes, the Zero Euro is a big phenomenon in our country, and so is Karel Gott,` he said, folding his umbrella to finally get inside the shop after a