British - Writer | December 9, 1944 -
We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.
Neil Innes
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Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
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Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.
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But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.
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So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.
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We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.
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I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.
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I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.
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In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.
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I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.
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But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.
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As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.
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