We want to make sure that whatever we deliver will honour his memory," said Spirit's Steve Iles.
As Liverpool prepares to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Hillsborough, manager Brendan Rodgers is using "the 96 in the sky" as inspiration to deliver the honour Anfield treasures most.
A key speaker at the event was Uthman Badar, a controversial Muslim writer and activist, who recently had a talk he was planning on delivering on honour killings pulled from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
Psalm 91 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Dear President Crow, No, no, I assure you, it was a real honour to deliver ASU's commencement speech, and I promise you I'm not in the least bitter that you controversially decided to break with convention and deny me an honorary degree on the grounds that my "body of work is yet to come".
He said he hoped that Pitchford "has the ability, clarity, desire, sense of purpose and indeed the honour to truly deliver a public inquiry that the Metropolitan police, this time round, cannot again deceive and manipulate as they unfortunately managed" to do in the 1999 inquiry, into their failure to investigate the Lawrence murder properly.
Several wept as they delivered speeches in honour of the younger Mao, who died during the Korean war.
"In addition, and most importantly for us, we can see that Galliard are passionate about working with West Ham United to engage their supporters to help deliver a fitting legacy that will honour the tradition of the famous ground.
Mr Hu and Mr Wen will take positions of honour, and Mr Wen will deliver a report.
Townshend said he was "honoured" to be asked to deliver the address, adding that the former BBC Radio 1 DJ had introduced him to bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Undertones before they had signed record deals.
