Tag: Monty Python
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RIP Neil Innes
I wish I had better news these days, and it comes in droves. Neil Innes of Bonzo Dog Band and Rutles fame has just died, and to say I’m gutted is the biggest understatement of 2019. If you don’t know the work of Neil Innes, especially ‘Innes Book of Records’, his solo albums and the…
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Happy Towel Day!
Today is Towel Day in honour of Douglas Adams and it’s one of the 6 Impossible Things To Do Before Breakfast to try and describe how important Douglas Adams writing was to me as a child, and especially the TV series and books (my love for the radio series came later). I would write differently,…
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RC 175: The Viv and Neil Show (Bonzo Dog Band)
Doo-dah, dada, dog. Radio Clash 175 is a special show which commemorates two great songwriters and performers – that original ginger geezah Vivian Stanshall and the Seventh Python (I bet he hates that term) Neil Innes, the former who sadly died in 1995, and their legacy of arty chaotic jazz/pop/psychedelic silliness and melancholy that probably…