Showing posts with label Viv Stanshall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Viv Stanshall. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Steve Winwood and Viv Stanshall: Boy in Darkness

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"I suppose I sort of went underground a little," Steve Winwood once told Classic Rock , looking back on the mid Seventies: One of ...
Thursday, March 06, 2025

Michael Foot sings the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

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I never did find a video of Jim Callaghan singing 'There was I Waiting at the Church' to a bemused TUC Conference in 1978. (He was m...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Steve Winwood on working with Viv Stanshall

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A reader sent me the link to this 2001 radio documentary about the great Viv Stanshall. As was inevitable in that era, it was presented by S...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

A nephew of Ian Fleming wrote the lyrics for two tracks on Steve Winwood's Arc of a Diver

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This blog's hero Steve Winwood has never been a great one for talking to journalists, so I was pleased to come across a 10-minute interv...
Sunday, July 07, 2024

Steve Winwood: Night Train

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It's strange how some music dates and some doesn't. You still hear the Spencer Davis Group singles Gimme Some Lovin' and I'm...
Friday, July 14, 2023

The Joy of Six 1145

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"The self-styled free market task force seems to be yet another dark money outfit in British politics – led by senior figures from US a...
Sunday, July 02, 2023

Leslie Sarony: Ain't it Grand to be Blooming Well Dead

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There's a programme about Les Dawson that used to be shown regularly on high-numbered TV channels. One of the people who pays tribute to...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

The man who wrote Jollity Farm later played Uncle Staveley in
I Didn't Know You Cared

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On Twitter today Wayne Cowling provided one of the greatest trivial facts ever. Let's award it Trivial Fact of the Month for starters. ...
Wednesday, September 07, 2022

Death Cab for Cutie owe their name to Simon Hoggart's father

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I like to think that my readers are the sort of people who know that the American band Death Cab for Cutie named themselves after a track fr...
Sunday, July 05, 2020

Wizzard: See My Baby Jive

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Posting a snippet about The Move the other day put me in mind of Roy Wood and his later band Wizzard. I used to be a little embarrassed tha...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Goodbye to Neil Innes

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Another hero of mine who has always been there is gone. Neil Innes died at his home in France yesterday. As the New York Times says: ...
Wednesday, November 06, 2019

The Bonzos get their Doo Dah back

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Good news from the Evening Standard : Sixties rock legends The Bonzo Dog Band have won a legal battle to put the Doo Dah back into their...
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Sunday, September 01, 2019

The Bonzos: I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to My Girl Tonight

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With our affairs at a low ebb, it is time to cheer the nation up: I brought my girl an apple She let me hold her hand. I brought my gi...
Monday, July 08, 2019

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band have lost their name

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Worrying news about the Bonzos : The band, whose members are now in their seventies and eighties, say they discovered two years ago that...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

Six of the Best 845

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Why do nations sometimes commit spectacular acts of self-destruction? Tom Scott argues that  strange fervour that seized the Xhosa people...
Monday, December 03, 2018

Six of the Best 834

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Michael Taylor makes the case for trade unions: "As a lifelong member of first the National Union of Teachers and then the Universit...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Prince Charles suggested Viv Stanshall as poet laureate

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Embed from Getty Images The heir to the throne as risen in my estimation because of this story in yesterday's Daily Mail : Prince Ch...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

At last an anthem for Brexit

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We have been told. When Brexit goes horribly wrong it will be the fault of us Remainers for not getting behind the project. "Every ti...
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Monday, March 05, 2018

Do Not Adjust Your Set

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Broadcast between 1967 and 1969,  Do Not Adjust Your Set was an ITV comedy series for children. It starred three-fifths of the Monty Py...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Six of the Best 752

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Why did white working-class men vote for Brexit? Noam Gidron and Peter A. Hall suggest it is because they have lost social standing over ...