The Bonzo Dog Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band and, colloquially, as "The Bonzos") was a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz, psychedelic rock, and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to the attention of a broader British public through a children's television programme, Do Not Adjust Your Set. Album cover This work is copyrighted. ... Art school is a colloquial term for any educational institution (whether secondary, post-secondary/undergraduate, or graduate/postgraduate) with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially graphic design, illustration, painting, photography, and sculpture. ... Music Hall is a form of British theatrical entertainment which reached its peak of popularity between 1850 and 1960. ... Trad jazz, short for traditional jazz is a music genre popular in Britain and Australia from the 1940s onward through the 1950s and which still has enthusiasts today. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... From left to right: David Jason, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Eric Idle. ...

The band's foundation

Unusually for a band, the actual date of conception for the Bonzos is known to us: 25 September 1962. It was on that day that Vivian Stanshall (tuba, but later lead vocals along with other wind instruments) and fellow art student Rodney Slater (saxophone) bonded over a transatlantic broadcast of a boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston. September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Lifes like that sometimes, isnt it? — Stanshall prepares to sing The Sound of Music with the Bonzo Dog Band on Do Not Adjust Your Set. ... The tuba is the largest of the low-brass instruments and is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the ophicleide. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... Rodney Desborough Slater (born November 8, 1944) was a member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, playing saxophones and other instruments (particularly winds). ... The saxophone (colloquially referred to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet. ... Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006) was an American heavyweight boxing champion. ... Charles L. Sonny Liston (May 8?, 1932 – December 30?, 1970), was a formidable boxer who became world Heavyweight champion by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round, the first time Patterson had been knocked out for a count of 10. ...

Rodney Slater had previously been playing in a trad jazz band at college with Chris Jennings (trombone) and Tom Parkinson (sousaphone). Eventually they recruited Roger Wilkes (trumpet) and Trevor Brown (banjo) from the Royal College of Art as they slowly turned their style from more orthodox music towards the sound of The Alberts and The Temperance Seven. Vivian was their next recruit and on that day in 1962, he and Rodney christened the band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band. Bonzo the dog was a popular British cartoon character created by artist George Studdy in the 1920s and Dada after the early 20th century art movement. Trad jazz, short for traditional jazz is a music genre popular in Britain and Australia from the 1940s onward through the 1950s and which still has enthusiasts today. ... The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... Sousaphone player in Washington Square, New York City The sousaphone is a type of tuba often used in a marching band. ... The trumpet is the highest brass instrument in register, above the horn, trombone, euphonium and tuba. ... A four-string banjo For other uses, see Banjo (disambiguation) The banjo is a stringed instrument of African American origin. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... The Temperance Seven was a British band specializing in 1920s-style jazz music. ... Bonzo the dog is a fictional character created by British artist George E. Studdy in the early 1920s. ... George Ernest Studdy ( 23 June 1878 - 25 July 1948) was a British commercial artist. ... Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ...

Neil Innes performing "Equestrian Statue" on Do Not Adjust Your Set

Roger Ruskin Spear playing the trumpet solo concluding "Equestrian Statue" on Do Not Adjust Your Set

Not long after Vivian, Rodney and Tom were evicted from their shared flat, the band added two more faces to the line-up: Goldsmiths College lecturer Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell and his lodger, songwriter/pianist, Neil Innes. According to Neil Innes' web site, the Bohay-Nowell was added to Vernon Dudley's name by Vivian Stanshall. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1206x918, 360 KB) Summary Picture is photograph taken by the uploader, User:Bodnotbod, of television displaying DVD release of Do Not Adjust Your Set and constitutes Fair Use. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1206x918, 360 KB) Summary Picture is photograph taken by the uploader, User:Bodnotbod, of television displaying DVD release of Do Not Adjust Your Set and constitutes Fair Use. ... From left to right: David Jason, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Eric Idle. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1198x924, 428 KB) Summary Picture made by the uploader, User:Bodnotbod, by pointing camera at telly displaying DVD release of Do Not Adjust Your Set, thus constituting Fair Use. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1198x924, 428 KB) Summary Picture made by the uploader, User:Bodnotbod, by pointing camera at telly displaying DVD release of Do Not Adjust Your Set, thus constituting Fair Use. ... Roger Ruskin Spear, the son of Ruskin Spear, was a founder member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, staying with it until its end. ... From left to right: David Jason, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Eric Idle. ... Goldsmiths College (founded in 1891 by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as Goldsmiths Technical and Recreative Institute) has been a part of the federal University of London since 1904, when it took its current name. ... Neil Innes (born December 9, 1944) is an English writer and performer of comic songs, best known for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles. ...

The band had been working with drummer Tom Hedges before Rodney found Martin Ash, who later took the stage name of Sam Spoons and shortly afterwards got them their first pub gig, where they were noticed by Roger Ruskin Spear. Roger Ruskin Spear, the son of Ruskin Spear, was a founder member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, staying with it until its end. ...

Ruskin Spear, the son of the British artist Ruskin Spear, claimed, "I couldn't believe anyone was that bad." He eventually changed his mind and, with his interest in the manufacture of early electronic gadgets/objets d'art and sound-making systems soon became an integral part of the band. Ruskin Spear (1911-1990) Born in Hammersmith England, he attended the local art school before going on to the Royal College of Art in 1930. ...

The line-up changed again with the departure of Roger Wilkes, whose girlfriend demanded his resignation, and John Parry, the trombonist. The two were replaced by, respectively, Bob Kerr and "Big" Sid Nichols. The final 'classic' band member, "Legs" Larry Smith joined in 1963, as a tuba player and tap-dancer (but later as a drummer), on Vivian's invitation.

The band's fortunes began to increase when their manager, Reg Tracey secured them a deal with Parlophone Records in April 1966. Their first single, a cover of the 1920s classic, "My Brother Makes The Noises For The Talkies" was backed with "I'm Going To Bring A Watermelon To My Girl Tonight" which was rather too risque for radio. Parlophone is a record label which was founded in Germany prior to World War I by the Carl Lindstrom Company. ...

A second single, "Alley Oop", backed with "Button Up Your Overcoat" followed in October of that year.

A move from jazz to rock

Although the Bonzos had started out playing jazz, they decided to embrace rock in order to counter claims that they were beginning to sound like The Temperance Seven and The New Vaudeville Band. (In fact Geoff Stephens asked the Bonzos to perform as the New Vaudeville Band. They declined. Former Bonzo Bob Kerr joined The New Vaudeville Band and went on to create his own band, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band, which combined the lunacy of the early Bonzo sound with music having a great deal in common with the Temperance Seven). For those interested in the Bonzo Dog bands earlier jazz leanings a recently released CD Songs The Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us - A Pre-History Of The Bonzos (Lightning Tree Records) collects together all of the novelty Jazz recordings from the 1920s and 1930s that the Bonzo Dog Band recorded or performed live. This CD also demonstrates the Bonzo Dog Band's musical relationship with early British Jazz which itself evolved out of the British dance band circuit of the 1920s and 1930s. The Temperance Seven was a British band specializing in 1920s-style jazz music. ... The New Vaudeville Band was a group created by songwriter Geoff Stephens in 1966 to record his novelty composition Winchester Cathedral, a song inspired by the dance bands of the 1920s. ... Geoff Stephens (born October 1, 1934, London), began writing during his amateur theatrical days when he wrote songs and sketches for musical revues presented by his own company, the Four Arts Society, while working as a school teacher, air traffic controller and silk screen printer. ... Bob Kerrs Whoopee Band, also billed as Bob Kerr and His Whoopee Band, was a jazz band which started in the 1960s and continued into the 1990s. ... British Dance bands evolved a unique style of popular jazz and dance music during the 1920s and 1930s that evolved in British dance halls and hotel ballrooms thousands of miles away from the true origins of jazz. ...

As the Bonzo Dog band's fame increased, they appeared as the resident band on Do Not Adjust Your Set, a children's show notable for having several future members of Monty Python's Flying Circus (Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin) and David Jason in the cast. From left to right: David Jason, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Eric Idle. ... This article discusses the series itself. ... Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author and writer of comedic songs. ... Terence Graham Parry Jones (born in Colwyn Bay, Wales, on February 1, 1942) is a British comedian, screenwriter and actor, film director, childrens author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. ... Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born May 5, 1943) is an English comedian, actor and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. ... David Jason in A Touch of Frost. ...

Moving over to Liberty Records, the Bonzos released their first album, Gorilla, which included "Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold" which savagely parodied their early "trad" jazz roots and featured some of the most deliberately inept jazz playing ever recorded. "The Intro and the Outro" in which every member of the band introduced and played a solo, started with genuine band members: Liberty Records was a United States based record label. ...

Hi there, nice to be with you, happy you could stick around.

Like to introduce "Legs" Larry Smith, drums

And Sam Spoons, rhythm pole

And Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell, bass guitar

And Neil Innes, piano.

Come in Rodney Slater alto saxophone

With Roger Ruskin Spear on tenor sax.

I, Vivian Stanshall, trumpet. [Stanshall is the narrator on this track]

before including such improbable members as:

Big hello to big John Wayne, xylophone

And Robert Morley, guitar.

Billy Butlin, spoons.

Princess Anne on sousaphone. Mmm.

Looking very relaxed Adolf Hitler on vibes

Eric Clapton on ukulele [it was actually Clapton playing a ukulele],

And specially flown in for us, the session's gorilla on vox humana. [loud angry growl]

Nice to see Incredible Shrinking Man on euphonium.

Drop out with Peter Scott on duck call. [sound of duck call]

Hearing from you later, Casanova on horn.

Yeah! Digging General de Gaulle on accordion. [brief accordion solo] Really wild, General! Thank you, sir.

Roy Rogers on Trigger [sound of flowing liquid].

We welcome Val Doonican as himself. [Irish voice repeats "Hello there"].

The track finally ends with a mention of "J. Arthur Rank on gong." John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), born Marion Robert Morrison (ref. ... Robert Morley (May 26, 1908 – June 3, 1992) was an Oscar-nominated British actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment. ... Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne (Billy) Butlin, (September 29, 1899 – June 12, 1980), was the founder of Butlins Holiday Camps. ... Princess Anne may refer to more than one person: Anne, Princess Royal (born 15 August 1950), daughter of Elizabeth II of the UK Anne, Princess of Orange (1709‑1759), daughter of George II of Great Britain Anne (1637‑1759), daughter of Charles I of England Princess Anne may refer to... Sousaphone player in Washington Square, New York City The sousaphone is a type of tuba often used in a marching band. ... Hitler redirects here. ... The famous Clapton is God graffiti Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who is one of the most respected and influential musicians of the 20th century,[1] garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and... Ukulele The ukulele (Hawaiian: , IPA pronunciation: ; Anglicised pronunciation usually IPA: ), or uke, is a fretted string instrument which is, in its construction, essentially a smaller, four-stringed version of the guitar. ... The vox humana (Latin for human voice) is a stop on the pipe organ so named because of its supposed resemblance to the human voice. ... The euphonium is a conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument. ... Statue of Sir Peter Scott at the WWT London Wetland Centre Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC, FRS, FZS, (September 14, 1909 - August 29, 1989), was a British ornithologist, conservationist and painter. ... Giacomo Casanova (April 5, 1725 - June 4, 1798). ... Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( ) (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970), in France commonly referred to as Général de Gaulle, was a French military leader and statesman. ... Dale Evans & Roy Rogers Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), who became famous as Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. ... Trigger (1932- 3 July 1965) was a 15. ... Val Doonican, full name Michael Valentine Doonican (born 3 February 1927 in Waterford) is an Irish singer and performer. ... Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank (December 23, 1888 – March 29, 1972) was a British industrialist and film producer, and founder of the Rank Organisation, now known as The Rank Group Plc. ... A gong is any one of a wide variety of metal percussion instruments. ...

The full "cast" of the track can be read on the BBC's H2G2 website [1]. The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion...

Much later, Stanshall was to provide an introduction on Mike Oldfield's first instrumental album, Tubular Bells, which echoed the style of The Intro and the Outro, but without the blatant absurdities. Michael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music and more recently dance. ... Tubular Bells is a record album, written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield (and later orchestrated by David Bedford for the Orchestral Tubular Bells version). ...

Urban Spaceman and beyond

They had a hit single in 1968 with "I'm the Urban Spaceman" produced by Paul McCartney under the pseudonym "Apollo C. Vermouth". The Beatles were great fans of the group and featured them performing the song "Death Cab for Cutie" in their film Magical Mystery Tour. The anarchic twelve bar blues "Trouser Press" — featuring a solo by Roger Ruskin Spear on a genuine trouser press he had fitted with a pickup — gave its name to an American anglophiliac rock magazine Trouser Press. "Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?" lampooned the British blues boom, and tap dancer/drummer "Legs" Larry Smith was an onstage hit with his lubricious dancing. Many of their songs parodied parochial suburban British attitudes, notably "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe" on the album The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse (a euphemism for an outside toilet, still common in Britain at the time). Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born June 18, 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ... Death Cab for Cutie is a song composed by Vivian Stanshall and performed by himself and his Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, which was included on their 1967 album Gorilla. ... Magical Mystery Tour, starring the Beatles, is an hour-long television film that initially aired on BBC TV on Boxing Day (the day after Christmas) in 1967. ... The 12-bar blues has a distinctive form in both lyrics and chord structure. ... Cover of the April 1983 issue of Trouser Press magazine (#84) Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in 1974 by editor/publisher Ira Robbins. ...

In 1969 they released the album Keynsham (1969) and also appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival. Keynsham is a small town near Bristol in south-west England. The name of the album was almost certainly derived from an advertisement on Radio Luxemburg for a dubious method of forecasting results for football matches (and using these results in football pools). In the advertisement, which was of great length preventing the youthful listeners to the only legal English language station transmitting pop music, the improbably named Horace Batchelor, inventor of 'the amazing Infra Draw method' would drone interminably, repeatedly spelling the name of the town where he lived, and to which the gullible presumably sent money. The Isle of Wight Festival is a music festival which takes place on the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England. ... Statistics Population: 15,500 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: ST654684 Administration District: Bath and North East Somerset Region: South West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Somerset Historic county: Somerset Services Police force: Avon and Somerset Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: South Western Post office... Clifton Suspension Bridge Bristol (IPA: ) is a city, unitary authority and ceremonial county in South West England, 115 miles (185 km) west of London and between the cities of Bath, Gloucester and Newport. ... Radio Luxembourg (1933-1992) was an important forerunner of pirate radio and modern commercial radio in Europe. ...

The Bonzos toured the United States with The Who and also appeared at the Fillmore East with The Kinks. Intro'd as a "warm-up act" for the real show, the Bonzos rushed out and did a series of frenetic calisthenics. True to the dada spirit, Stanshall performed a mock striptease and Roger Ruskin Spear, with a platoon of robots (including one that sang "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" while actually blowing bubbles), did whatever he did without regard for what the rest of the band was doing. As for "The Canyons of Your Mind", it featured such an incredibly bad guitar solo it drove audiences to open-mouthed delight. The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964. ... Fillmore East was promoter Bill Grahams rock palace in the East Village area of New York City. ... The Kinks were an English rock group, formed in the mid-1960s by Ray Davies and his brother Dave Davies. ... The name calisthenics is Greek in origin, a combination of the words kalos, beauty and sthénos, strength. // United States calisthenics is a type of exercise consisting of a variety of simple movements usually performed without weights or other equipment that are intended to increase body strength and flexibility using... For other uses, see Striptease (disambiguation). ... Im Forever Blowing Bubbles is a popular song which debuted in 1918 and was first published in 1919. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Whilst the group formally disbanded in 1970, their record company compelled them to reunite to record a final album titled Let's Make Up And Be Friendly recorded in 1971 and released in 1972. The fifth album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. ...

One of the Bonzos' song titles, "Cool Britannia", was revived as a media label for late 1990s Britain under Tony Blair (oblivious to the patently satirical intent of the original song). Cool Britannia is a media term that was used in the late 1990s to describe the contemporary culture of the United Kingdom. ...

Band members

The core members of the group for most of the band's career were:

• Vivian Stanshall (1943 - 1995): trumpet, lead vocals
• Neil Innes (b. 1944): piano, guitar, lead vocals
• Rodney "Rhino" Desborough Slater (b. 1944): saxophone
• Roger Ruskin Spear: tenor sax and various contraptions
• "Legs" Larry Smith: drums

However, the band's onstage line-up varied, sometimes on a weekly basis, and they also invited a number of guest musicians into the recording studio. Additional members of various duration include: Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell, Martin "Sam Spoons" Ash, "Happy" Wally Wilks, Tom Parkinson, Chris Jennings, Claude Abbo, Trevor Brown, Tom Hedge, Eric Idle, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Leon Williams, John Parry, Raymond Lewitt, Sydney "Big Sid" Nicholls, James "Jim Strobes" Chambers, Bob Kerr, Dave Clague, Joel Druckman, "Borneo" Fred Munt, Chalky Chalkey, Dennis Cowan, Aynsley Dunbar, Jim Capaldi, Anthony 'Bubs' White, Andy Roberts, Dave Richards, Dick Parry, Hughie Flint and Glen Colson. ". Lifes like that sometimes, isnt it? — Stanshall prepares to sing The Sound of Music with the Bonzo Dog Band on Do Not Adjust Your Set. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Neil Innes (born December 9, 1944) is an English writer and performer of comic songs, best known for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles. ... Rodney Desborough Slater (born November 8, 1944) was a member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, playing saxophones and other instruments (particularly winds). ... Roger Ruskin Spear, the son of Ruskin Spear, was a founder member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, staying with it until its end. ... Though presently living in Japan, Trevor Brown is a British artist whose work explores paraphilias, such as pedophilia, BDSM, and other fetish themes. ... Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author and writer of comedic songs. ... The famous Clapton is God graffiti Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who is one of the most respected and influential musicians of the 20th century,[1] garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and... Sir Elton Hercules John m a knobhead hehehe, CBE[1][2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a multiple Grammy- and Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born June 18, 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ... Leon Williams is a current American Football linebacker for the Cleveland Browns. ... John Edmund Parry (born February 6, 1946) is a Canadian politician. ... Prolific English drummer Aynsley Dunbar (born on January 10, 1946, in Liverpool, England) has worked with some of the top names in rock and roll, including John Mayall, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, David Bowie, and Sammy Hagar. ... Jim Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English musician and songwriter and a founding member of Traffic. ... Andrew Andy Roberts (born 12 June 1946) is an English musician. ... Born in Sheffield, England in 1970, Dave Richards, has over 12 years is a successful entrepreneur and executive in the software industry and sits on both boards and advisory boards of Silicon Valley start-up ventures. ... Dick Parry is a saxophonist born in 1944. ... Hughie Flint (b. ...

Stanshall and Innes were the band's principal songwriters.

"Legs" Larry Smith toured with Clapton and Elton John and can be heard tap dancing on John's "I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself". Sir Elton Hercules John m a knobhead hehehe, CBE[1][2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a multiple Grammy- and Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ...

Neil Innes sings "Hello Mabel" on Do Not Adjust Your Set, flanked by Vivian Stanshall (left) and "Legs" Larry Smith.

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January 2006 reunion: Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Revisited

On 28 January 2006 many surviving members of the band played a concert at the Astoria, London. Neil Innes, "Legs" Larry Smith, Roger Ruskin Spear, Rodney Slater, Bob Kerr, Sam Spoons and Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell appeared. There was also a number of special guests attempting with various degrees of success to be Vivian Stanshall, the only member of the band not still living, including Stephen Fry, Ade Edmondson, Phill Jupitus and Paul Merton. Their stage antics were very much in evidence including performances on the Theremin Leg and Trouser Press. The show was filmed and was broadcast on BBC4 and also released on DVD in May 2006. January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Astoria can mean: Cities, villages, and towns in the United States (listed in order of population) Astoria, Queens, formerly an independent town, now part of Queens in New York City The city of Astoria, Oregon The village of Astoria, Illinois The town of Astoria, South Dakota Famous Places The London... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Lifes like that sometimes, isnt it? — Stanshall prepares to sing The Sound of Music with the Bonzo Dog Band on Do Not Adjust Your Set. ... Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, author, actor and filmmaker. ... Adrian Edmondson Adrian Edmondson (sometimes credited as Ade Edmondson, born 24 January 1957 in Bradford, Yorkshire, Britain) is a British actor, comedian, director, and writer who gained fame as Vyvyan in The Young Ones in the early 1980s. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... Paul Merton on the Room 101 set Paul Merton (born January 17, 1957) is a British actor, deadpan comedian and writer, who is best known as a panellist on Have I Got News For You and Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4 and as the host of Room 101. ... Léon Theremin playing an early theremin The theremin or thereminvox (originally pronounced but often anglicized as [1]) is one of the earliest fully electronic musical instruments. ... BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital TV (Freeview, satellite and UK. Contents // Categories: Stub | BBC television channels | British TV channels ... DVD (commonly known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

A countrywide tour, with Ade Edmondson and Phill Jupitus, followed during November 2006, starting in Ipswich and ending with two nights at the Shepherds Bush Empire, where Paul Merton and Bill Bailey joined in for a handful of songs. David Catlin-Birch (lead guitar and vocals) from alternative pop group World Party joined the band for the tour. Timber framed buildings in St Nicholas Street The Ancient House is decorated with a particularly fine example of pargeting Ipswich (pronounced Ip-Switch) is the county town of Suffolk and a non-metropolitan district in East Anglia, England on the estuary of the River Orwell. ... The Shepherds Bush Empire is a music venue in Shepherds Bush in West London, England. ... Paul Merton on the Room 101 set Paul Merton (born January 17, 1957) is a British actor, deadpan comedian and writer, who is best known as a panellist on Have I Got News For You and Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4 and as the host of Room 101. ... Mark Bill Bailey (born 1964, Bath, Somerset) is an English comedian, actor, and musician known for appearing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI: Quite Interesting and Black Books as well as his stand up comedy. ... Most famously the World Party bassist, including their Is It Like Today track from No. ... World Party is a successful British pop/rock band, which is essentially the solo project of its multi-talented only member, Karl Wallinger. ...

Discography

Studio albums

• 1967 Gorilla
• 1968 The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse (chart #40)
• 1969 Tadpoles (chart #36)
• 1969 Keynsham
• 1972 Let's Make Up And Be Friendly

• Note: The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse was released as Urban Spaceman in the US.

The first album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. ... The second album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. ... The third album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. ... The fourth album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. ... The fifth album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. ...

Singles

• 1966 "My Brother Makes the Noises for the Talkies"
• 1966 "Alley Oop"
• 1967 "Equestrian Statue"
• 1968 "I'm the Urban Spaceman" (UK Singles Chart - #5)
• 1969 "Mr Apollo"
• 1969 "I Want To Be With You"
• 1972 "King of Scurf" (U.S.) / "Slush" (UK)
• 1992 "No Matter Who You Vote For the Government Always Gets In (Heigh Ho)"

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Compilations and miscellaneous

• 1970 The Best of the Bonzos
• 1971 Beast of the Bonzos
• 1974 The History of the Bonzos
• 1983 Some of the Best of The Bonzo Dog Band
• 1984 The Very Best of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
• 1990 The Bestiality of the Bonzos
• 1990 The Best of the Bonzo Dog Band
• 1992 Cornology
• 1995 Unpeeled
• 1999 Anthropology: The Beast Within
• 2002 The Peel Sessions
• 2006 Wrestle Poodles... And Win!
• 2007 Songs The Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us - A Pre-History Of The Bonzos

[edit] Sleeve Notes The British front cover states, including: Im The Urban Spaceman, Can Blue Men Sing The Whites, The Intro And The Outro, You Done My Brain In, Canyons Of Your Mind, and others. The Dutch back cover plugs the Sunset reissue of the Gorilla album but only... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... This American best of album differs from the British The Best of the Bonzos in having different cover art, an extra flap with an article about Bonzo by John Mendelsohn, and about half different songs. ... Cornology is a 1992 compilation box set of the complete recorded output of The Bonzo Dog Band issued on the Parlophone, Liberty and United Artists labels. ...

See also

• The Alberts
• The Rutles
• Spike Jones

This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... The Rutles The Rutles was a parody of The Beatles, jointly created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes. ... Spike Jones For the music video and film director, see Spike Jonze. ...

External links

• Official Bonzo Dog Band 40th Anniversary Tour web site
• The Viv Stanshall Appreciation Society & Archive
  • An Excellent site - with interviews, articles and a cornucopia of rare recordings.
• The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band by Ian Kitching
  • Extremely detailed fan site, with additions being made over a period of eleven years.
• The Bonzo Dog Band at The Trouser Press
  • A superior discography and critique of all the studio albums plus notable compilations from a music publication named after a Bonzo's song.
• The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Revisited
  • A fan's review of the January 2006 reunion concert.
• The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Revisited
  • Review, The Times, 31 January 2006.
• Words Of Innespiration - The Lyrics & Unplanned Career of Neil Innes
  • Neil Innes endorsed site with lyrics, downloadable audio and other stuff