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	Vivian Stanshall
		Vivian Stanshall (March 21, 1943 - May 3, 1995) was an English musician, writer, wit, and raconteur and is probably best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
		Stanshall reprises the role of Hubert, reciting a weird poem loosely based on Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat, at the end of which all the diners produce oars and row the table offstage.
		A later programme for BBC Radio 4, Vivian Stanshall: From Essex Teenager to Renaissance Man (1994) included an interview with his mother in which she insisted that his father had loved him, but Stanshall was mortified that he had never shown it.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/vi/Viv_Stanshall.html (575 words)

	Procol references in 'Ginger Geezer', the Vivian Stanshall biography
		The Strawbs entirely failed to be amused by this, or by the state-of-the-art equipment Vivian had constructed to foil their efforts, such as shaped wire coat hangers which he claimed were sights to improve his aim.
		Vivian was sufficiently amused by the story to keep hold of the article and read it to visitors later in the year.
		When Vivian eventually turned up, Pete promptly confiscated the bottle his friend was clutching and refused to accede to his demands for its return on their arrival at the gig.
	www.procolharum.com /99/ph_stanshall.htm (2074 words)

	OBITUARY : Vivian Stanshall Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Stanshall was one of the key figures in the Bonzos, the hugely entertaining comedy revue band who could outdraw many of the biggest names in rock in the late Sixties.
		Stanshall was born in 1943 at Shillingford, in Oxfordshire.
		Stanshall's Elvis Presley impersonations and mimed striptease routine were brilliantly done, and they endeared him not just to their regular audience, but to many starts of the rock fraternity.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950307/ai_n13969845 (898 words)

	Biography of Vivian Stanshall - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Vivian Stanshall (March 21 1943 – March 5 1995) was an English musician, writer, wit, and raconteur, probably best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, but also known for his surreal exploration of the United KingdomBritish upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.
		Stanshall reprises the role of Hubert, reciting a weird poem loosely based on Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat, at the end of which all the diners produce oars and row the table offscreen.
		A later programme for BBC Radio 4, Vivian Stanshall: Essex Teenager to Renaissance Man (1994) included an interview with his mother in which she insisted that his father had loved him, but Vivian was mortified that he had never shown it.
	www.funnyquotesandjokes.com /comedians/VivianStanshall.html (2192 words)

	BBC - Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel - Viv Stanshall
		Vivian Stanshall was an eccentric pioneer that pushed boundaries in music, comedy, poetry and art and won a legion of fans, including John Peel in the process.
		With the encouragement of John Peel, Vivian developed the idea of the eccentric English aristocrat Sir Henry Rawlinson, who was later to achieve a full flowering in the 1980 film, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.
		Vivian launched his alter-ego character, Sir Henry on Peel's Top Gear show and it was so successful with listeners that he was asked to continue the skit when Peel returned from holidays.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio1/johnpeel/artists/v/vivstanshall (246 words)

	Vivian Stanshall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Vivian Stanshall was an accomplished showman, mime artist, mystic, painter, potter, sculptor, musician (vocals, tuba, trumpet, baconium, banjo, mandolele, jew's harp,...), song writer and comedian.
		Vivian was born in East London in 1943 and then evacuated with his mother to Shillingford in Oxfordshire.
		Vivian Stanshall was the main performer on the sketches between the songs.
	www.iankitching.me.uk /music/bonzos/viv.html (1847 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ginger Geezer: The Life of Vivian Stanshall: Books: Lucian Welch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Vivian Stanshall, artist, musician, comic, broadcaster and all-round oddball, was a genuine English eccentric.
		Lucian Welsh and Chris Randall's Ginger Geezer: The Life of Vivian Stanshall is an attempt to unravel the tragic story of this enigmatic and idiosyncratic man. Stanshall, blessed with a forest of red hair, an excess of energy and an urge to shock, formed the Bonzo Dog Band just after art school.
		Vivian was never able to stay of the bottle for long and the offers slowly dried up.
	www.amazon.ca /Ginger-Geezer-Life-Vivian-Stanshall/dp/1841156795 (572 words)

	Vivian Stanshall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vivian Stanshall (March 21, 1943 – March 5, 1995) was an English musician, painter, singer, broadcaster, songwriter, poet, writer, wit, and raconteur, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
		Stanshall was often called a "great British eccentric", but this was a label he hated: it suggested that he was putting on an act and he always insisted that he was merely being himself.
		Stanshall reprises the role of Hubert, reciting a poem loosely based on Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat, at the end of which all the diners produce oars and row the table offscreen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vivian_Stanshall (2774 words)

	Vivian Stanshall : Comedian Profile
		Vivian Stanshall was an English musician, writer, wit, and raconteur, probably best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, but also known for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.
		Stanshall was often called a "great British eccentric", but this was a label he hated as it suggested that he was putting on an act, whereas he always insisted that he was merely being himself — which is arguably a requirement for genuine eccentricity.
		Stanshall's remarkable and instantly recognizable voice won him several commercial voice-overs, including a campaign for Cadbury's Creme Eggs which involved a reworking of the Bonzos' song "Mister Slater's Parrot", under the title of "Mister Cadbury's Parrot".
	www.comedy-zone.net /standup/comedian/s/stanshall-vivian.htm (2073 words)

	Viv Stanshall - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Stanshall was born on March 21, 1943 in East London, England before World War II forced him and his mother to evacuate to Oxfordshire.
		In 1974, Stanshall emerged with his debut solo LP Men Opening Umbrellas, recorded with Steve Winwood; Stanshall later returned the favor, collaborating with Winwood on his own self-titled debut and contributing significant lyrical ideas to 1980's Arc of a Diver.
		Vivian Stanshall died in a house fire on the morning of March 5, 1995.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,496733,00.html (463 words)

	All about the Vivian Stanshall sound archive
		This website for the Vivian Stanshall Appreciation Society and Archive is dedicated to archiving the unreleased and unavailable works of the man himself and revelling in his art and legacy.
		Vivian’s output over these years was surprisingly large, and we certainly cannot claim to have half of the existing material of live and radio recordings that are floating around on various bootleg traders' lists.
		If we can preserve these recordings, then we can hope to understand where Vivian Stanshall might have taken his creations of language and music on the records he was working on for the last years of his life that were abandoned by Warner Brothers shortly after his death in 1995.
	www.vivarchive.org.uk /intro.htm (645 words)

	Vivian Stanshall [Mustard] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Vivian Stanshall is, to his fans, the loveliest, warmest secret in the world of comedy.
		Vivian kept himself busy through the 1970s with numerous radio appearances, and through these he amassed a series of stories about Rawlinson End and its inhabitants which he broadcast and eventually gathered them together for an album, Sir Henry At Rawlinson End (1978), released on the Charisma record label.
		Hubert was, for Stanshall, a form of self-portrait, as Eccles was for Spike Milligan and EL Wisty for Peter Cook.
	www.mustardweb.org /issue1&2/stanshall.htm (968 words)

	A review of four singles by Vivian Stanshall
		Stanshall was the gold-lamé-wearing showman of the group, parodying smarmy American lounge singers (listen to Look At Me, I'm Wonderful from Keynsham), as well as the dadaist stream of consciousness ramblings that permeate the later LP's (Rhinocratic Oaths from The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse).
		Stanshall was known for his Elvis long before it was fashionable or a lifestyle.
		Earlier this year Vivian Stanshall died in his bedroom in his Muswell Hill, London apartment, the victim of smoke inhalation from an apartment fire.
	www.powersalad.com /music/stanshall.htm (1169 words)

	The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band / Vivian Stanshall - Collaborators of Robert Calvert
		Vivian Stanshall's Radio Flashes, a mix of sketches and music, ran for four episodes and a Christmas special.
		Stanshall was still appearing regularly on Radio 4's Start The Week and producing sessions for John Peel.
		In 1992 and 1993, Stanshall was plagued by ill-health, the results of his tranquiliser addiction and alcoholism, which saw him spend a couple of lengthy periods in hospital.
	aural-innovations.com /robertcalvert/collab/collabmain/collbonzodog.htm (1159 words)

	Rawlinson End Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Vivian and Kenny Everett were the resident cast, the host was Kenneth Robinson, and the producer Richard Gilbert.
		Vivian used his appearances here to either play records and theme based chats, read extracts of Rawlinson End (which would be the basis of the 4 Christmas shows) or just gabble away in his own plummy style.
		Vivian was filmed reading 2 poems, Rockall and The Sea, from the bridge of a boat in a show from the third series.
	basic1.easily.co.uk /03C052/042055 (1932 words)

	Viv Stanshall interview
		As we stood on Vivian Stanshall’s Muswell Hill doorstep, wondering when he would respond to the ringing bell, we were none too sure which category to place this particular day in.
		Laura Hayden, Vivian’s friend and former Personal Assistant who had set up the interview for us, was just starting to apologise for Vivian’s apparent absence when she turned sharply and, forgetting the sentence she was in the middle of, gasped.
		Vivian Stanshall died in a house fire at home on the morning of March 5, 1995.
	www.terrascope.co.uk /MyBackPages/VivStanshall.htm (3017 words)

	Vivian Stanshall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Ronnie Wood's brother Ted went sick during the Temperance Seven's 1972 Summer season on Shanklin Pier the late, archetype English eccentric, Vivian Stanshall stood in.
		Stanshall cocks a leg onto his cane coffee table) and would point his crutch towards the audience's faces.
		Vivian Stanshall died in 1995 during a fire at his Highgate home)
	www.iowrock.demon.co.uk /profiles/iow_profile_vs.html (261 words)

	Philm Freax: Vivian Stanshall
		My first memories of Vivian Stanshall were of illicit Sunday morning drinking.
		This photo is from my first Rolling Stone commission and has been featured in several publications and exhibitions, including one that travelled from pub to pub around the northeast of England.
		Please take a moment to sign the "Please reissue Vivian Stanshall's MEN OPENING UMBRELLAS AHEAD, Warner Brothers!" petition.
	www.ibiblio.org /mal/MO/philm/viv (177 words)

	bookmunch - online book reviews
		I'm not a fan of Vivian Stanshall, in fact I know little of his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band or on the likes of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End and Stinkfoot, but I found this biography very readable.
		Stanshall was a colourful eccentric who inspired longstanding devotion in his long-suffering friends and admirers.
		This biography is a necessary attempt to cement Stanshall's reputation because although he was well-known and successful in the Sixties, after that his work was inconsistent and haphazard, appearing only intermittently, often when least expected.
	www.bookmunch.co.uk /view.php?id=598 (729 words)

	The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
		Vivian Stanshall sings "Canyons of Your Mind," and Neil sings "Urban Spaceman." I remastered this from several sources to make it sound nice so apologies for some bad sound editing.
		Vivian Stanshall, Neil Innes and the Bonzo Dog Band perform "Mr.
		Vivian Stanshall and the Bonzo Dog Band perform "Canyons of Your Mind" on the German TV series "Beat Club."
	orangecow.org /pythonet/bonzos.html (629 words)

	Vivian Stanshall's Radio Flashes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Vivian Stanshall (guitar, euphonium, pipes, dum dum, talking drum, percussion), with Pete Moss (bass, piano, accordion, violin, cello), Mox (harmonica) and Bubs White (guitar, banjo, ukelele)
		Hubert is growing mustard and cress in his left ear and performs even the most intimate of office with his head inclined to one side.
		Vivian Stanshall, with Julian Smedley and Pete Moss
	www.iankitching.me.uk /music/bonzos/radio-flashes.html (882 words)

	YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
		Vivian Stanshall, Neil Innes and the band perform "Big Shot," "You Done My Brain In," and "Hello Mabel." With Roger Ruskin-Spear, Legs Larry Smith, Rodney Slater and Dennis Cowan.
		Vivian performs "Canyons of Your Mind," and Roger performs the "Trouser Press." With Vivian Stanshall, Neil Innes, Roger Ruskin-Spear, Legs Larry Smith, Rodney Slater and Dennis Cowan.
		An apparently drunk Vivian Stanshall and Roger Ruskin-Spear show up at the end.
	www.youtube.com /view_play_list?p=C71ABF216A3476E6 (299 words)

	BBC - Liverpool - Entertainment - The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band was one of the first of the many British art college bands formed between 1962-1965.
		Vivian Stanshall (March 21, 1943 –; March 5, 1995) was a founder member of the group.
		Spencer Leigh met Stanshall at his home in 1990.
	www.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /liverpool/content/articles/2006/09/29/music_vivstanshall_feature.shtml (776 words)

	SHARE: The Vivian Stanshall Appreciation Society & Archive (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SHARE: The Vivian Stanshall Appreciation Society and Archive (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)
		This is the website for fans of Vivian Stanshall to enjoy, finally an appreciation society for those fasicnated by this man's life and art to gather and express themselves.
		And Viv and the guys were heavily influenced by The Goons, who were a very important thing for The Beatles too.’
	www.vivarchive.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 (325 words)

	SHARE: The Vivian Stanshall Appreciation Society & Archive
		Mike Oldfield - ‘Viv Stanshall did me a great favour and honour by wanting to be a part of the record [Tubular Bells].
		He couldn’t possibly create a niche or an art form because no-one else was clever enough to do it.’
		Vivian Stanshall - ‘Why can't I be different and
	www.vivarchive.org.uk /indexbeta.htm (322 words)

	YouTube - Vivian Stanshall Ruddles Ad
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		Vivian Stanshall & biG Grunt - 11 Mustachioed Daughters
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=3MpUGERFIeY (166 words)

	Please reissue Vivian Stanshall's MEN OPENING UMBRELLAS AHEAD, Warner Brothers! Petition (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Also, the late Vivian Stanshall was among the first rock musicians to utilise African musical styles and he did so on this album.
		He was assisted by famous musicians such as Steve Winwood (Traffic), Ric Grech (Blind Faith), and Neil Innes (The Rutles and fellow Bonzo Dog Band alumnus like Vivian), so people who appreciate their music (and there are many) will be enticed to purchase "Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead".
		Around the period that "Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead" was recorded, Vivian Stanshall released a single "Lakonga" which is extremely rare at this time.
	www.petitiononline.com.cob-web.org:8888 /MOUA (423 words)

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