Stanshall was born in Shillingford Oxfordshire, which is about 5 miles from where I live (although we never met!). He was allegedly as crazy as a barrel full of monkeys. He was big mates with Keith Moon, another nutter. One story I heard was that Stanshall would dress up as a priest and walk down Oxford Street (which is always full of rubberneck tourists). Moon would drive by in his Rolls, stop the car, jump out and proceed to 'beat up' the priest, much to the horror of the various nationals mooching along the pavement (sidewalk to some). Crazy days.
That picture of Viv is the perfect choice. His commentary is so English. America would never invite someone like Viv to comment on the top 40. This is my favorite so far!
American music magazines had all sorts of strange characters who did record reviews. Patti Smith, Lester Bangs, and Al Aronowitz come to mind. And those magazines were far more radical and counterculture then their British counterparts. What on earth are you talking about?
Viv’s hilarious critique of The Fugs really made me LOL - “It must be somebody really underground… maybe a coal miners’ brass band”! The Bonzos have long been one of my favourite groups, playing their great ‘Cornology’ compilation to my kids on the school run has turned them into avid Bonzo fans too!
Not quite, Two different people played the role of ‘ Viv ‘ one of them, a rather famous musician. The other an actor given the contract to play the part on behalf of the first.
@@johnsurrey7426 He wasn't a real person, he was a character. The Vivian from the 1970s and 80s was a different man than the Vivian from the 1960s. The Vivian from the 1960s was replaced because the actor who played him now plays 'Paul McCartney'.
OK, let’s get things straight. There was a real man who was born and called Vivian Stanshall, and who was a member of The Bonzo Dog DooDah Band. He wasn’t played by an actor - he was a real, actual person. Maybe you’re confusing him with Vivian from The Young Ones on telly, who was played by Adrian Edmondson. Paul McCartney played ukulele on The Bonzo single I’m The Urban Spaceman, but he was NOT Vivian Stanshall - Vivian Stanshall was Vivian Stanshall!
As a big Bonzo Dog Band fan, let me say much thanks for producing this! Your channel consistently brightens my days and this was a a high water mark. You are the Mr. Apollo of classic rock content.
'Like Sherry Trifle spit on a Napkin'. That's great, i love Viv Stanshall and will probably use that line when next hearing some awful modern rubbish that passes for music now. I love Yesterdays Papers it really gives an insight into how top musicians thought about their peers, It's crazy how they all seem ultra critical, which is probably why there was so much good music about .
Love Viv! Excellent choice. Ever heard his ‘travelogue voiceover’ on Tubular Bells? Really miss his humor and fashion sense. Excellent soundtrack you have conjured as always.
0:36 - On Mick Jagger: "It's a shame he's colored." LMAO! There are lots of other such zingers in these reviews. But don't care for his comments on The Move's great Blackberry Way. I don't think he was just "taking the piss" out of the band, as the English say; I really think he hated the song, and that's one of my very favorite Move songs. To be fair, both Carl Wayne and Trevor Burton of The Move would've agreed with Stanshall: Carl Wayne refused to sing the lead vocal, and guitarist Trevor Burton was so disgusted with the track (although it topped the UK charts) that he left the group shortly afterwards.
I liked the song "Blackberry Way," too, but I love Vivian Stanshall so much that I'm fine with him criticizing the song. In fact, I love that his first thought was that it was the Idle Race, an earlier version of the Move. While I'm on the subject, I liked the Idle Race better than the Move and the Move better than ELO, the reverse order of their commercial success. I also love the Who and play in a Who tribute band, but I love their first three albums the most, just before they really attained commercial success. Start-up companies should hire me to give them advice and do the opposite of what I suggest.
"I think he ejaculated" has to be the best comment I've ever heard in one of these! I've liked that dude ever since I saw him singing "Death Cab For Cutie" in Magical Mystery Tour.
Wasn't familiar with the Bonzos, but I will be now! This guy is hilarious. Sort of a potty mouthed Monty Python type. The syphlitic kiss of a psychedelic clarinetist!!! Great take on Cliff/Elvis, but all wrong on The Move and The Fugs! The Eyes of Blue shouldn't make anyone forget Love. Great stuff again, yesterdays papers!
The Bonzoes were the house band on the series "Do Not Adjust Your Set" featuring pre-Python Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gillam! The other Bonzo co-leader Neil Innes is responsible for The Rutles music!
@@jrb4935Paul has the same scar on his lip to this day since his famous ***December 26th 1965 moped accident*** which has naturally changed over a lifetime.* *A plastic surgeon would have had cut deep and rip open "Faul's lip in 1966 and we know that didn't happen as we would've noticed how deep and fresh it was. Like it was in 1965 again. Placing scars on lips to last a lifetime which changes over time (which it did) is not like putting on a never changing Lego piece.* *And there is the little matter of your so called lookalike who needed plastic surgery to look more like Paul (according to all the varying logistically impossible fantasies) yet somehow has a son James in 1977 who at 20 years old in 97 has the exact***same droopy eyes, raised eyebrows and exact chin as 1963 Paul***And then when James becomes an older man is now a doppelganger to Paul's brother Michael.* *James and Stella gets their strawberry blond reddish light features from Linda. Not Vivian Stanshall.* *How can James look like a disguise? That doesn't even make any sense. Lol* *As that is what Vivian and Faul are supposed to be. Faul with surgeries and Vivian with strawberry blond reddish wigs and Hollywood prosthetics. Lol (as "William is supposed to most resemble his first characterJack Averill, bahahaha).* Oh and Paul's ***"Granny"*** music as John liked to call it picks up at times in the 70s. His dad's music hall influences growing up (he even records his dad's only song and gives it to him in the 70's as a present). His dad at Paul's 1969 small private wedding. Michael and Paul way in the background going to lunch not even knowing they are in the shot in Get Back *Paul buying that Scotland farm on June 17, 1966, etc* ==== He only got better at bass from 1966 onward because the times and music called for more complicated riffs. *And you are comparing a baby fat Paul at 22 to a Paul with no baby fat in his mid then to late 20s. Also his style and hair changed as so did the rest of our culture did in 66 onward.* *And saying Paul is shorter than Faul is borderline simple. Every single photo that these tin foil hat sites bring forward are forced perspective illusion photos which is a natural phenomenon when people are standing beside each other and one is standing slightly in front of each other. Take a photography course sometime as it happens every day* These tinfoil hat sites prey on the easily fooled and convince them that they are the "critical thinkers" and everyone else are the unthinking sheep. Do you really think they and all his friends and family are that stupid to call him Billy whenever cameras are around? It's part their dry British humor. But mostly their nickname for him since back in the day when he would sign into hotels and recording sessions as Billy Martin. You go into these sites and think you are doing research. Go learn about the Beatles. Listen to their music. There is no difference in his voice nor his creative voice and musical ability other than growing exponentially between 1962-1970.
@@jrb4935 tell that to Vivian's 3 children he helped raise. Lol. And don't give me this Vivian Stanshall business. Listen to yourselves when you say this. Bahahaha.
I saw Neil Innes live twice in NYC and he was fantastic both times. Yo La Tengo (a cool New Jersey indie band) backed him one time and it was great hearing Bonzo Dog Band songs (and Rutles songs) with a full band backing the late great Mr. Innes.
@@theheartofablackbird2109 It's a sign YLT really loved music in a pure sense; despite being great on their own terms, they were eager to focus in a support other musicians they admired. God bless New Jersey's finest indie band!
Well, the man's a genius.They should have had him doing reviews for the Sunday Times. Fun trivia: Paul McCartney was producer for 'Urban Spaceman'using the alias Apollo C Vermouth.
@@jrb4935 Nice to see someone who’s wide awake. He’s played quite a few including Percy Thrillingtom. He’s been telling people since he took over the role and continues to the present, unfortunately most are still unaware. I feel deep down he’d like it to be all over but when you sign that contract, it’s a contract for life.
I've just noticed British band Gun with their hit single "Race With The Devil" climbing the charts at No 18. If you haven't heard it, you must check it out. It's proto-metal, acid rock, and it sounds so damn good. You'll be wondering why it's not played at all today.
I remember reading NME back in 1968 when Viv was doing Do Not Adjust Your Set. His best stuff by far was the John Peel Sessions. He can squeeze an hour's worth of thinking into 7 minutes.
Its mental that Viv mentioned The Idle Race in connection with The Move. What with Jeff Lynne leaving The Idle Race and joining The Move the following year.
Lucky enough to meet the man a couple of times, just the most luxurious voice I've ever heard. He could have made a mint if he'd been a bit more shrewd.
Wow this is witty and intelligent. The run down of the Stones' Beggar's Banquet cover alone is, as they say, worth the price of admission. This was thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end. And yes, Buddy Rich was a helluva drummer but given over to long bouts of the most excruciatingly boring pyrotechnics AKA endless wanking.
Des O’Connor near the top of the charts yet again. He must have sold millions. I wonder did he have hits in America? Just to say, despite Des being very much a light entertainer,, he ended up owning one of the the great items of rock memorabilia, Buddy Holly’s guitar. Des appeared with Buddy ( 1958 British tour) When the tour ended Buddy gave Des his guitar.
No hits that I recall, but he did have a brief variety series that aired as a summer replacement for the long running American show "The Kraft Music Hall".
@@davehire9840 Thanks Dave, some very big hits in the 1960s by the likes of Des, Ken Dodd, Val Doonican, Max Bygraves etc. I don’t think any of them sold big ( if any) in America. As you said, Des O’Connor was know there and l think appeared in Las Vegas.
Des O'Connor said he'd have given the Buddy Holly guitar to Paul McCartney if Paul had gone on his chat show, but Paul declined. I wonder who has that guitar now??
I never even heard Des O'Connor on American radio. And the same goes for the other names you mentioned.American top 40 had its share of embarrassing moments, but comparing moments, but for once I must say that the American top 10 totally outclassed the British top ten. But then we the Bonzos never charted here in the US. Maybe because we demanded more dance numbers. Frug was not pronounced like it rhymed with drug, but rather frug's vowel sound was like food. Kepp on dancin.'
@@crowstylerrat2799 That is strange , with Paul’s love of Buddy Holly you would have thought he would have gone for that deal. Des appeared to be a very amicable guy.. On the subject iconic musical instruments, there was a search a few years back in the Liverpool area for the original banjo that Lennon’s mother , Julia, taught him some basic chords on when he was a kid. I think someone has even written a play about the search.
Viv: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Soundtrack: 😵🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 So simplified and still so pure! More instantly appealing than "The Inner light", on par with "Within You, Without You". 🎇 This and the previous one are my personal favorites so far, you just keep getting better! Take it easy, my friend, don't wear yourself out, please! And I'll keep pestering you until I've got my copies (even if they're just snippets) 😄
Intro outro Absolutely blind bonkers John Peel was a great fan of the bonzo dog doo da band Espeicialy Viv Stansil My favourioute characters of his was Sir Henry at Rawlinsons End. There is an absolute screamer of a song go check it out its called Give Booze a Chance by the bonzos if you ever get the chance.
Val Doonican sang a kids song live the last lines are: bring back the cat, string them all up, separate coloureds from Whites. It was about doing laundry.
Eleven moustachioed daughters, running in a field of fat The moon is high, the mandrake screams Please come to our Sabbat The changeling children shiver, round the fire their mothers dance With strangely painted faces That smile but never laugh
We have "One Two Three O'Leary" by Des O'Connor at Number 5 (topped at No.4) , and "Lily The Pink" by the Scaffold (incl. Paul McCartney's brother) at Number 2 (4 weeks at No.1). Jimi Hendrix's "All Along The Watch Tower" didn't get any higher than 5 and was his biggest hit. Strange but true......
I love the commentary littered with sarcasm and wit. Surprised the sound of late 68 is so similar to late 67. The Stones notwithstanding. Thanks for this. Love the channel.
The Viv Stanshall portrayed here is the one and only Billy Shears who played in the pepper pots, He was Billy Pepper, later in a small band called the Beatles , as Sargent Pepper !!!in the Diplomats with Bev Bevan and deny Lane ,later in wings,,,also had a small role playing Paul McCartney for over half a century. This guy is absolutely fantastic in everything he puts his heart and soul into , multi instrumentalist, composer, can copy most vocal styles ,actor , author and all round nice guy .His son james Macartney looks remarkably like Viv as he did in the early70's. ,have a look for yourselves...sounds incredible ,,,,,but it's true ... Read the memoirs of Billy Shears...with an open mind Viv/ Billy/Paul McCartney will explain it to you, everything,,,, it's jaw dropping, shocking, eye opening .... Viv always was using false eyes , he is actually blind in his right eye he wears a prosthesis right eye ,, hats off to him,,,,,,,got to say it again this guy is just Brilliant ...He gave the character of Viv to another chap to take on when Linda became ill .You must surely see that there is quite a difference between them... Graham Nash said that Paul McCartney was never in Wings , yep, because it was Billy Shears aka William Campbell acting as Paul ,,, confused ,yes but because Billy's so accomplished ,he has fooled us all for over 50 / 60 years ...well done Billy
I love Bonzo Dog Band and one of the reasons is Viv's humour, but man...I couldn't disagree with him anymore about Blackberry Way. I think it's one of the best songs ever written.
Getting a bad review by Vivian Stanshall is like being stabbed in the prison shower by a 350 pound thesaurus. I heard they use liquid soap now, so you don't drop it so much as spill it.
Bit too young for most 60s hits at the time but Blackberry Way was probably the first record I recall being fully conscious of when it was out simply because of the powerful melodic and slightly melancholic tone.
I remember my Mum coming home from the shops with "Blackberry Way" and putting out my hand to take it off her, I already loved it that much. I thought it sounded so different to the other records we had. I was 3 years and 1 month old and had been playing all our pop records on our red Dansette for over a year. I still have the record and love its ominous tone. I'm so thankful I had a great Mum!
my comment isn't about the songs he reviewed but about the bonzo dog doo-dah band. love 'em. their appearance in "magical mystery tour" almost stole the show. "the intro and the outro" and "no matter who you vote for, the govt always gets in" are excellent songs. and "death cab for cutie" is a classic.
"My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe" is the most brilliant exposition of the dystopian nightmare that is english suburbia......Once saw Roger Ruskin Spear perform with a backing group consisting of two smoke spewing robots at a college gig.
please tell me that there is also a neil innes review of new records viv is hilarious i happen to like the fugs...one of those bands that i dug because nobody else knew who the hell they were
They should have played him " Wet Dream Over You", or "I Feel Like a Pile of Homemade Shit". He'd have heard fellow filthy musicians w a sense of humor, or in his case humour.
I'm surprised there's no mention from anyone here talking about the fact that Vivian is Paul McCartney and that if you don't believe it just Google it and there's probably 50,000 hours of footage that proves it
Viv cycled past me in East Finchley ( he lived there) and at first I thought it was Merlin with his beard and cape. Then I just stood there on the street clapping my hands at my hero.
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band is one of those bands that I've somehow missed completely. Eventhough I was born in '79, I have long been fascinated with rock from about '57 to '80. But for whatever reason I can't name one song by Bonzo Dog nor do i remember even hearing about them apart from seeing their band name when reading up on other bands from that same era. Anyone got any suggestions for songs I should check out?? Maybe i'll take a liking to them, always looking for a new hidden gem in the histories of rock. A few years back I discovered Roky Erickson on the 13th Floor and was very pleased.
Just listen to their album "Gorilla" for a slice of the BDDDB, whom I remember digging as an 8yr- old child, during their weekly appearances on pre-Monty Python "Do Not Adjust Your Sets".
I reckon the best place to start is their second album The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse and the single I'm The Urban Spaceman. Their first album Gorilla is also good, but it's more jazz-oriented.
I was surprised to see Barry Ryan's song ''Eloise'' on the 1968 chart. I was sure it was from 1978. What's wrong with me! I've always liked 'Ob-la-di-ob-la-da'', whoever sings it, no matter how much they say it's one of the worst songs by The Beatles. By the way, I was amused that Viv said ''Blackberry Way'' is boring, because it sounds like The Beatles… that's precisely its charm! And while we're at it, the ''Beggars Banquet'' cover is a crude copy of the White Album. Regards, Yesterday's Papers.🤗🌹
I never really cared for Obladi etc, but when US ska punkers Sublime lifted its melody for their feel good rappy hit "what I got" it made me think again. Most old rockers won't care one bit for 90s stuff, but they sure put in the missing dirty wurds. And, sing me another "wonder where my money s al gone" - I know perfectly well where it went !
I like this Yesterday's papers very informative and insitefull this is a great concept knowing what other famous musicians and artist think of other artist music wonder if they do the same thing WITH ALBUM RELEASES 😊 brill
Talk about two countries divided by a common language - our friends across the pond seem to have great difficulty comprehending our Vivian's Upper Class Camp shtick. I wonder how they would get on with his masterpiece, so beloved of the late lamented John Peel - Sir Henry at Rawlinson End? Love the music which once again totters on the edge of demonetisation so tantalisingly!
The Bonzo dog group did quite well in the States. We get your humor........we loved Monty Python and who can forget the hilarious episodes of the British Parliament live.
A largely unsung - or tragically forgotten or temporarily misplaced - hero of Brit humour and it's intersection with "music" and "art", imo. Caught off guard at calling Mick J. "coloured"...lmdao! A tad queasy at the casually tossed-off(!!) "wops" and "kikes" tho'. All tongue-deep-in-cheek, no doubt. Different times fer sher. Couldn't miss it, wouldn't change a thing.
This is incredible. I could listen to Viv’s takes on other music for hours.
This could be a two-hour long review, and I wouldn't get enough.....fucking brilliant!
Viv, what a man. This is hilarious and brilliant - genius with words!
By far the best thus far in this series How could it be otherwise with . Viv Stanshall as commentator.
Stanshall was born in Shillingford Oxfordshire, which is about 5 miles from where I live (although we never met!). He was allegedly as crazy as a barrel full of monkeys. He was big mates with Keith Moon, another nutter. One story I heard was that Stanshall would dress up as a priest and walk down Oxford Street (which is always full of rubberneck tourists). Moon would drive by in his Rolls, stop the car, jump out and proceed to 'beat up' the priest, much to the horror of the various nationals mooching along the pavement (sidewalk to some). Crazy days.
Lmfao!!!🤣🤣🤣
That picture of Viv is the perfect choice. His commentary is so English. America would never invite someone like Viv to comment on the top 40. This is my favorite so far!
American music magazines had all sorts of strange characters who did record reviews. Patti Smith, Lester Bangs, and Al Aronowitz come to mind. And those magazines were far more radical and counterculture then their British counterparts.
What on earth are you talking about?
'Viv' is 'Paul McCartney'.
@@jrb4935 Nah. Paul wrote loads more novelty songs than Viv. And Viv's were funny, at least.
@@thomasbell7033 It's the same man. Not the later 'Vivian' from the 70s and 80s but the one in the 60s. 'Vivian' became 'Paul'.
"This is some perverted leprous filth hallowed by the syphilitic kiss of a psychedelic clarenetist" is the name of my next album
Probably the best review so far
Viv’s hilarious critique of The Fugs really made me LOL - “It must be somebody really underground… maybe a coal miners’ brass band”!
The Bonzos have long been one of my favourite groups, playing their great ‘Cornology’ compilation to my kids on the school run has turned them into avid Bonzo fans too!
The US Top Ten was really loaded that week--damn! This Viv review was hilarious--best one yet!
Brilliant! Love this and love the Bonzos! Thanks for putting a smile on my face 😄
I dig this one the best so far, thanks for all your work. Viv what a legend.
This is hilarious!! Viv was a total one-off, and the Bonzos remain superb. Thank you so much for posting.
'Viv' is 'Paul McCartney'.
Not quite, Two different people played the role of ‘ Viv ‘ one of them, a rather famous musician. The other an actor given the contract to play the part on behalf of the first.
I don’t understand. Vivian Stanshall wasVivian Stanshall, a real person. When did anyone ‘play’ him and why?
@@johnsurrey7426 He wasn't a real person, he was a character. The Vivian from the 1970s and 80s was a different man than the Vivian from the 1960s. The Vivian from the 1960s was replaced because the actor who played him now plays 'Paul McCartney'.
OK, let’s get things straight. There was a real man who was born and called Vivian Stanshall, and who was a member of The Bonzo Dog DooDah Band. He wasn’t played by an actor - he was a real, actual person.
Maybe you’re confusing him with Vivian from The Young Ones on telly, who was played by Adrian Edmondson.
Paul McCartney played ukulele on The Bonzo single I’m The Urban Spaceman, but he was NOT Vivian Stanshall - Vivian Stanshall was Vivian Stanshall!
Where is this kind of commentary today, now that we really need it.
Laughed out loud a couple of times!
Ahhh, thanks sooo much for this one in special !!!! I Love him so much... Gimme more Bonzo! 🤩🤩🤩
One Viv review is funnier than entire books. By far the funniest review you've had on here. What a witty, expansive sense of humor.
A veritable lexicon of musical invective. God Love This Ginger Geezer.
Check out his autobiography Ginger Geezer. It is wonderful.
@@bigtone1348 Biography. He's been dead since 1995.
@@indigohammer5732Chris and Lucien used direct quotes from Viv in the biography. Which makes parts of the book autobiographical.
Coward.
As a big Bonzo Dog Band fan, let me say much thanks for producing this! Your channel consistently brightens my days and this was a a high water mark. You are the Mr. Apollo of classic rock content.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
He’s got style!
Funny that Viv mistook The Move for the Idle Race as Jeff Lynne would join The Move from the Idle Race several months after Blackberry Way.
'Like Sherry Trifle spit on a Napkin'. That's great, i love Viv Stanshall and will probably use that line when next hearing some awful modern rubbish that passes for music now. I love Yesterdays Papers it really gives an insight into how top musicians thought about their peers, It's crazy how they all seem ultra critical, which is probably why there was so much good music about .
Love Viv! Excellent choice. Ever heard his ‘travelogue voiceover’ on Tubular Bells? Really miss his humor and fashion sense. Excellent soundtrack you have conjured as always.
0:36 - On Mick Jagger: "It's a shame he's colored." LMAO! There are lots of other such zingers in these reviews. But don't care for his comments on The Move's great Blackberry Way. I don't think he was just "taking the piss" out of the band, as the English say; I really think he hated the song, and that's one of my very favorite Move songs. To be fair, both Carl Wayne and Trevor Burton of The Move would've agreed with Stanshall: Carl Wayne refused to sing the lead vocal, and guitarist Trevor Burton was so disgusted with the track (although it topped the UK charts) that he left the group shortly afterwards.
One of my favourite Move tracks too, though they made so many outstanding ones. Interesting that he originally thought it was The Idle Race.
@@gemspa73 Particularly since Jeff Lynne of The Idle Race joined The Move and later "moved" with Roy Wood to ELO.
I liked the song "Blackberry Way," too, but I love Vivian Stanshall so much that I'm fine with him criticizing the song. In fact, I love that his first thought was that it was the Idle Race, an earlier version of the Move. While I'm on the subject, I liked the Idle Race better than the Move and the Move better than ELO, the reverse order of their commercial success. I also love the Who and play in a Who tribute band, but I love their first three albums the most, just before they really attained commercial success. Start-up companies should hire me to give them advice and do the opposite of what I suggest.
Roy wood was both one of the bests songwriters around but also one of the most unfortunate 😁
'I think he ejaculated'
Great video, Viv was a national treasure
I knew this one would be memorable.
This is another winning video. I really look 👀 forward to you releasing them now.
"I think he ejaculated" has to be the best comment I've ever heard in one of these! I've liked that dude ever since I saw him singing "Death Cab For Cutie" in Magical Mystery Tour.
Wasn't familiar with the Bonzos, but I will be now! This guy is hilarious. Sort of a potty mouthed Monty Python type. The syphlitic kiss of a psychedelic clarinetist!!! Great take on Cliff/Elvis, but all wrong on The Move and The Fugs! The Eyes of Blue shouldn't make anyone forget Love. Great stuff again, yesterdays papers!
The Bonzoes were the house band on the series "Do Not Adjust Your Set" featuring pre-Python Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gillam! The other Bonzo co-leader Neil Innes is responsible for The Rutles music!
There will never be another, and there CAN never be another Vivian Stanshall. You are missed.
He's 'Paul McCartney'. It's the same man.
@@jrb4935Paul has the same scar on his lip to this day since his famous ***December 26th 1965 moped accident*** which has naturally changed over a lifetime.*
*A plastic surgeon would have had cut deep and rip open "Faul's lip in 1966 and we know that didn't happen as we would've noticed how deep and fresh it was. Like it was in 1965 again. Placing scars on lips to last a lifetime which changes over time (which it did) is not like putting on a never changing Lego piece.*
*And there is the little matter of your so called lookalike who needed plastic surgery to look more like Paul (according to all the varying logistically impossible fantasies) yet somehow has a son James in 1977 who at 20 years old in 97 has the exact***same droopy eyes, raised eyebrows and exact chin as 1963 Paul***And then when James becomes an older man is now a doppelganger to Paul's brother Michael.*
*James and Stella gets their strawberry blond reddish light features from Linda. Not Vivian Stanshall.*
*How can James look like a disguise? That doesn't even make any sense. Lol*
*As that is what Vivian and Faul are supposed to be. Faul with surgeries and Vivian with strawberry blond reddish wigs and Hollywood prosthetics. Lol (as "William is supposed to most resemble his first characterJack Averill, bahahaha).*
Oh and Paul's ***"Granny"*** music as John liked to call it picks up at times in the 70s. His dad's music hall influences growing up (he even records his dad's only song and gives it to him in the 70's as a present).
His dad at Paul's 1969 small private wedding.
Michael and Paul way in the background going to lunch not even knowing they are in the shot in Get Back
*Paul buying that Scotland farm on June 17, 1966, etc*
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He only got better at bass from 1966 onward because the times and music called for more complicated riffs.
*And you are comparing a baby fat Paul at 22 to a Paul with no baby fat in his mid then to late 20s. Also his style and hair changed as so did the rest of our culture did in 66 onward.*
*And saying Paul is shorter than Faul is borderline simple. Every single photo that these tin foil hat sites bring forward are forced perspective illusion photos which is a natural phenomenon when people are standing beside each other and one is standing slightly in front of each other. Take a photography course sometime as it happens every day*
These tinfoil hat sites prey on the easily fooled and convince them that they are the "critical thinkers" and everyone else are the unthinking sheep.
Do you really think they and all his friends and family are that stupid to call him Billy whenever cameras are around? It's part their dry British humor. But mostly their nickname for him since back in the day when he would sign into hotels and recording sessions as Billy Martin.
You go into these sites and think you are doing research. Go learn about the Beatles. Listen to their music. There is no difference in his voice nor his creative voice and musical ability other than growing exponentially between 1962-1970.
@@agitatedmongoose Yeah, bullshit. 'Vivian' and 'Paul' are the same man. A side by side photo comparison confirms that.
@@jrb4935 tell that to Vivian's 3 children he helped raise. Lol. And don't give me this Vivian Stanshall business. Listen to yourselves when you say this. Bahahaha.
@@agitatedmongoose I have told it to his son and grandson, lol
"I would have liked to have been bitten by a hippo Halfway through"
Lol , he chose an animal w the worse bite, and one who can't bite.
Month of my birth
So many classics
RIP Viv 🙏
I've watched dozens of these and this is the funniest reviewer ever.
Ah so cool. I have several Bonzo LP's
Love them.
I saw Neil Innes live twice in NYC and he was fantastic both times. Yo La Tengo (a cool New Jersey indie band) backed him one time and it was great hearing Bonzo Dog Band songs (and Rutles songs) with a full band backing the late great Mr. Innes.
@@jamesgoward5687 YLT is one of my favorite all time modern American bands :) They did this for Daniel Johnston too when he was still around.
@@theheartofablackbird2109 It's a sign YLT really loved music in a pure sense; despite being great on their own terms, they were eager to focus in a support other musicians they admired. God bless New Jersey's finest indie band!
Motown with 3 of the top 4 in the 🇺🇸 ! Marvin , Stevie & Diana 😎
"It's a shame he's coloured"😂
"It's Cliff Richard" :D
Best channel on RUclips!!!
Well, the man's a genius.They should have had him doing reviews for the Sunday Times. Fun trivia: Paul McCartney was producer for 'Urban Spaceman'using the alias Apollo C Vermouth.
'Vivian Stanshall' IS 'Paul McCartney'. It's the same man.
@@jrb4935 Nice to see someone who’s wide awake. He’s played quite a few including Percy Thrillingtom. He’s been telling people since he took over the role and continues to the present, unfortunately most are still unaware. I feel deep down he’d like it to be all over but when you sign that contract, it’s a contract for life.
@@archstanton3763 and fancy viv liking Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. I wonder why that could be. oh yes, McCartney wrote it
@@southwestshelly Right on the money !!!
@@jrb4935 This is totally true and he wants you to know it. Read the book: "Billy Shears"
"...it's a shame he's coloured." Frickin lol
Anyone who's seen the 1967 James Coburn film The President's Analyst will know Clear Light straight away.
'Hey everybody it's the Liverpudlians!'
I've just noticed British band Gun with their hit single "Race With The Devil" climbing the charts at No 18. If you haven't heard it, you must check it out. It's proto-metal, acid rock, and it sounds so damn good. You'll be wondering why it's not played at all today.
I agree. I love that song.
@@YesterdaysPapers It's a belter!! Lovin' your channel, I'm addicted...
I remember reading NME back in 1968 when Viv was doing Do Not Adjust Your Set. His best stuff by far was the John Peel Sessions. He can squeeze an hour's worth of thinking into 7 minutes.
Its mental that Viv mentioned The Idle Race in connection with The Move. What with Jeff Lynne leaving The Idle Race and joining The Move the following year.
Yes, that's pretty amazing.
I've always loved 'Blackberry Way'
I'd loved a hippo to have bit me half way through. Or an armadillo. -- Viv Stanshall.
Lucky enough to meet the man a couple of times, just the most luxurious voice I've ever heard. He could have made a mint if he'd been a bit more shrewd.
He actually did. He's 'Paul McCartney'.
I've never heard of Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band or Viv Stanshall, but his hilarious comments make me regret that.
If you've seen "Magical Mystery Tour", you will have seen Viv Stanshall and the Bonzos in performance.......
And they are a really fun, good band.
And Paul McCartney produced their single "Urban Spaceman" which was a hit in the UK.
Wow this is witty and intelligent. The run down of the Stones' Beggar's Banquet cover alone is, as they say, worth the price of admission. This was thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end. And yes, Buddy Rich was a helluva drummer but given over to long bouts of the most excruciatingly boring pyrotechnics AKA endless wanking.
Des O’Connor near the top of the charts yet again. He must have sold millions. I wonder did he have hits in America? Just to say, despite Des being very much a light entertainer,, he ended up owning one of the the great items of rock memorabilia, Buddy Holly’s guitar. Des appeared with Buddy ( 1958 British tour) When the tour ended Buddy gave Des his guitar.
No hits that I recall, but he did have a brief variety series that aired as a summer replacement for the long running American show "The Kraft Music Hall".
@@davehire9840 Thanks Dave, some very big hits in the 1960s by the likes of Des, Ken Dodd, Val Doonican, Max Bygraves etc. I don’t think any of them sold big ( if any) in America. As you said, Des O’Connor was know there and l think appeared in Las Vegas.
Des O'Connor said he'd have given the Buddy Holly guitar to Paul McCartney if Paul had gone on his chat show, but Paul declined. I wonder who has that guitar now??
I never even heard Des O'Connor on American radio. And the same goes for the other names you mentioned.American top 40 had its share of embarrassing moments, but comparing moments, but for once I must say that the American top 10 totally outclassed the British top ten. But then we the Bonzos never charted here in the US. Maybe because we demanded more dance numbers. Frug was not pronounced like it rhymed with drug, but rather frug's vowel sound was like food. Kepp on dancin.'
@@crowstylerrat2799 That is strange , with Paul’s love of Buddy Holly you would have thought he would have gone for that deal. Des appeared to be a very amicable guy.. On the subject iconic musical instruments, there was a search a few years back in the Liverpool area for the original banjo that Lennon’s mother , Julia, taught him some basic chords on when he was a kid. I think someone has even written a play about the search.
First of all these 60s reviewers to criticize the type font on an album! 0:58
Such an amazing Character
Nobody does a review like Viv Stanshall.
Viv: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Soundtrack: 😵🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 So simplified and still so pure! More instantly appealing than "The Inner light", on par with "Within You, Without You". 🎇 This and the previous one are my personal favorites so far, you just keep getting better! Take it easy, my friend, don't wear yourself out, please!
And I'll keep pestering you until I've got my copies (even if they're just snippets) 😄
Thank you!
Intro outro Absolutely blind bonkers
John Peel was a great fan of the bonzo dog doo da band Espeicialy Viv Stansil
My favourioute characters of his was Sir Henry at Rawlinsons End. There is an absolute screamer of a song go check it out its called Give Booze a Chance by the bonzos if you ever get the chance.
Love that Arthur Brown's song.
Interesting, he thought The Move was Idle Race (Jeff Lynne).
Val Doonican sang a kids song live the last lines are: bring back the cat, string them all up, separate coloureds from Whites. It was about doing laundry.
"Is that us ? No ?" Lol, I laughed hard !
Eleven moustachioed daughters, running in a field of fat
The moon is high, the mandrake screams
Please come to our Sabbat
The changeling children shiver, round the fire their mothers dance
With strangely painted faces
That smile but never laugh
Poet tree.
Ahhh ah, Ahhh ah, Ahhhhh a ahhhh.
I didn’t know people were covering the band Love…Love had the definitive version of seven and seven is
I've been a Love fan since rushing out & buying Da Capo in 1967, but I also was unaware of this cover (though I have heard of Eyes of Blue).
@@appledoreman As was I, but I know Alice Cooper did it later on.
@@divingduck1970 and UFO covered Alone Again Or in 1977
@@michaelrochester48 Really? Covering Love is a bold move.
@@divingduck1970 this is a very good one. ruclips.net/video/wKsZuNxhQVo/видео.html Calexico
Brilliant!
Great stuff. I really like the charts retrospective at the end.......I'm finding loads of songs I never knew about.
We have "One Two Three O'Leary" by Des O'Connor at Number 5 (topped at No.4) , and "Lily The Pink" by the Scaffold (incl. Paul McCartney's brother) at Number 2 (4 weeks at No.1). Jimi Hendrix's "All Along The Watch Tower" didn't get any higher than 5 and was his biggest hit. Strange but true......
They gave this guy WAY better records to review than they did Zappa.
It's based on what is on the charts
I love the commentary littered with sarcasm and wit. Surprised the sound of late 68 is so similar to late 67. The Stones notwithstanding. Thanks for this. Love the channel.
Bored the rectum off me...Well...I could be wrong but I guess he didn't like it.
Brutal review...love it! ✌
Brilliantly funny reviews
Three Beatles have been done so far; did Ringo ever do one of these reviews?
I think he did. I'll have to look for it.
Yesssss
is this the idle race!.. brilliant
My friend Viv!
Shame it's not Stanshall's voice we hear. But i see that the same applies to other videos in this Channel. Ok.
The Viv Stanshall portrayed here is the one and only Billy Shears who played in the pepper pots, He was Billy Pepper, later in a small band called the Beatles , as Sargent Pepper !!!in the Diplomats with Bev Bevan and deny Lane ,later in wings,,,also had a small role playing Paul McCartney for over half a century. This guy is absolutely fantastic in everything he puts his heart and soul into , multi instrumentalist, composer, can copy most vocal styles ,actor , author and all round nice guy .His son james Macartney looks remarkably like Viv as he did in the early70's. ,have a look for yourselves...sounds incredible ,,,,,but it's true ... Read the memoirs of Billy Shears...with an open mind Viv/ Billy/Paul McCartney will explain it to you, everything,,,, it's jaw dropping, shocking, eye opening .... Viv always was using false eyes , he is actually blind in his right eye he wears a prosthesis right eye ,, hats off to him,,,,,,,got to say it again this guy is just Brilliant ...He gave the character of Viv to another chap to take on when Linda became ill .You must surely see that there is quite a difference between them... Graham Nash said that Paul McCartney was never in Wings , yep, because it was Billy Shears aka William Campbell acting as Paul ,,, confused ,yes but because Billy's so accomplished ,he
has fooled us all for over 50 / 60 years ...well done Billy
I love Bonzo Dog Band and one of the reasons is Viv's humour, but man...I couldn't disagree with him anymore about Blackberry Way. I think it's one of the best songs ever written.
The best possible choice to let loose on the Top Forty. God but Viv is missed.
Getting a bad review by Vivian Stanshall is like being stabbed in the prison shower by a 350 pound thesaurus. I heard they use liquid soap now, so you don't drop it so much as spill it.
Reminder for myself or somebody else to post a list of the songs featured.
Viv performed on captain Lockheed by the genius Robert Calvert
Funny, though I disagree with him on "Blackberry Way". And it was The Move's only #1!
me too
love the tune
Bit too young for most 60s hits at the time but Blackberry Way was probably the first record I recall being fully conscious of when it was out simply because of the powerful melodic and slightly melancholic tone.
I remember my Mum coming home from the shops with "Blackberry Way" and putting out my hand to take it off her, I already loved it that much. I thought it sounded so different to the other records we had. I was 3 years and 1 month old and had been playing all our pop records on our red Dansette for over a year. I still have the record and love its ominous tone. I'm so thankful I had a great Mum!
How canny to have name checked Idle Race given future events. Bravo Viv.
This guy has ZERO CHILL
my comment isn't about the songs he reviewed but about the bonzo dog doo-dah band. love 'em. their appearance in "magical mystery tour" almost stole the show. "the intro and the outro" and "no matter who you vote for, the govt always gets in" are excellent songs. and "death cab for cutie" is a classic.
"My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe" is the most brilliant exposition of the dystopian nightmare that is english suburbia......Once saw Roger Ruskin Spear perform with a backing group consisting of two smoke spewing robots at a college gig.
"Baggins, I hates them." Ha ha ha.
please tell me that there is also a neil innes review of new records
viv is hilarious
i happen to like the fugs...one of those bands that i dug because nobody else knew who the hell they were
Not sure if Neil Innes did one of these Blind Dates.
They should have played him " Wet Dream Over You", or "I Feel Like a Pile of Homemade Shit". He'd have heard fellow filthy musicians w a sense of humor, or in his case humour.
Is there any group this guy 'didn't' offend?
Bless his wicked heart...love the Bonzo's
Clear Light released a single?! Never knew that 🤔
Within and Without You.....
I'm surprised there's no mention from anyone here talking about the fact that Vivian is Paul McCartney and that if you don't believe it just Google it and there's probably 50,000 hours of footage that proves it
No there isn't. And you are really dim
" can Blue men sing the Whites?" Viv.
"utter Rubbish? " He obviously hasn't heard the remix!
ruclips.net/video/Zx1_6F-nCaw/видео.html
Some really far out and groovy tunes in this video man
Viv's review puked me. It was like sherry trifle spit on a napkin. It was great. Super.
We should've had breakfast first.
Viv cycled past me in East Finchley ( he lived there) and at first I thought it was Merlin with his beard and cape. Then I just stood there on the street clapping my hands at my hero.
"Sherry trifle spit on a napkin". Sorry Buddy, lol
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band is one of those bands that I've somehow missed completely. Eventhough I was born in '79, I have long been fascinated with rock from about '57 to '80. But for whatever reason I can't name one song by Bonzo Dog nor do i remember even hearing about them apart from seeing their band name when reading up on other bands from that same era.
Anyone got any suggestions for songs I should check out??
Maybe i'll take a liking to them, always looking for a new hidden gem in the histories of rock.
A few years back I discovered Roky Erickson on the 13th Floor and was very pleased.
You've got to listen to "Cool Britannia".
Same here, thats my time frame for lots of music i adore too. I was born in 74, so missed it all really 1st time around.
Just listen to their album "Gorilla" for a slice of the BDDDB, whom I remember digging as an 8yr- old child, during their weekly appearances on pre-Monty Python "Do Not Adjust Your Sets".
I’am the urban spaceman, was their only big hit! The Intro and the Outro, is well worth a listen too, oh Canyon of your minds is 😄
I reckon the best place to start is their second album The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse and the single I'm The Urban Spaceman. Their first album Gorilla is also good, but it's more jazz-oriented.
"It's a shame he's colored" (or should I say coloured) HA HA!
Who's that playing the Indian style music at the end, please?
I recorded that myself. All the instrumentals at the end of these Blind Date videos are recorded by me.
@@YesterdaysPapers Wow. Very nice, and very era appropriate. 👍🙂
@@000Angus000 Thank you! Glad you liked it.
What is the last tune here, starting at 5 min in?
I was surprised to see Barry Ryan's song ''Eloise'' on the 1968 chart. I was sure it was from 1978. What's wrong with me!
I've always liked 'Ob-la-di-ob-la-da'', whoever sings it, no matter how much they say it's one of the worst songs by The Beatles. By the way, I was amused that Viv said ''Blackberry Way'' is boring, because it sounds like The Beatles… that's precisely its charm! And while we're at it, the ''Beggars Banquet'' cover is a crude copy of the White Album.
Regards, Yesterday's Papers.🤗🌹
It's so very McCartneyesque.
I never really cared for Obladi etc, but when US ska punkers Sublime lifted its melody for their feel good rappy hit "what I got" it made me think again.
Most old rockers won't care one bit for 90s stuff, but they sure put in the missing dirty wurds. And, sing me another "wonder where my money s al gone" -
I know perfectly well where it went !
I like this Yesterday's papers very informative and insitefull this is a great concept knowing what other famous musicians and artist think of other artist music wonder if they do the same thing WITH ALBUM RELEASES 😊 brill
"Rival lavatories".
Talk about two countries divided by a common language - our friends across the pond seem to have great difficulty comprehending our Vivian's Upper Class Camp shtick. I wonder how they would get on with his masterpiece, so beloved of the late lamented John Peel - Sir Henry at Rawlinson End?
Love the music which once again totters on the edge of demonetisation so tantalisingly!
No division here. I'm American and thought all of it was hilarious.
The Bonzo dog group did quite well in the States. We get your humor........we loved Monty Python and who can forget the hilarious episodes of the British Parliament live.
@@airace69 Ouch!!
@@OuterGalaxyLoungewell you would say that!
Billy Shears
A largely unsung - or tragically forgotten or temporarily misplaced - hero of Brit humour and it's intersection with "music" and "art", imo. Caught off guard at calling Mick J. "coloured"...lmdao! A tad queasy at the casually tossed-off(!!) "wops" and "kikes" tho'. All tongue-deep-in-cheek, no doubt. Different times fer sher. Couldn't miss it, wouldn't change a thing.
Hahaha! Lilly The Pink crazy pills.