Fred Munt
| Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band | |
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The Bonzo Dog Band (Dutch TV, 1968)
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | The Bonzo Dog Band |
| Origin | London |
| Genres | Comedy rock, psychedelic pop, trad jazz, avant-pop, experimental pop |
| Years active | 1962–1970, 1972, 1988, 2002–present |
| Labels | Parlophone, Liberty, Imperial, United Artists |
| Associated acts | The Beatles, Grimms, The Liverpool Scene, The Rutles, The New Vaudeville Band, Monty Python, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band, Bill Posters Will Be Band, Three Bonzos and a Piano |
| Website | bonzodog |
| Members |
Neil Innes Rodney "Rhino" Desborough Slater Sam Spoons Roger Ruskin Spear Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell "Legs" Larry Smith Bob Kerr |
| Past members |
Vivian Stanshall (founding member) |
Vivian Stanshall (founding member)
Dave Clague
Dennis Cowan
Sidney Nicholls
Joel Druckman
Leon 'Lenny' Williams
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band) was created by a group of British art-school students in the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz and psychedelic pop with surreal humour and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to the public attention through a 1968 ITV comedy show, Do Not Adjust Your Set.
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band was officially formed on 25 September 1962 at 162c Rosendale Road, West Dulwich, when Vivian Stanshall (tuba, lead vocals and other wind instruments) and fellow art student Rodney Slater (saxophone/clarinet) bonded over the late-night transatlantic broadcast of a boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston, after being introduced by Slater's flatmate Tom Parkinson.[2] At the time, Slater was already playing in a trad jazz band at college with Parkinson on sousaphone, and Chris Jennings on trombone. Trumpeter Roger ('Happy' Wally) Wilkes and banjo-player Trevor Brown were the founders of this loose conglomerate at the Royal College of Art, although the lineup is thought to have been exceptionally fluid and constantly revolving, consisting of as many as forty to fifty rotating members if Stanshall's later recollections are to be believed.
Stanshall would become the band's next recruit after that day in 1962, when he and Slater rechristened the existing group The Bonzo Dog Dada Band. In the 2004 BBC Four documentary Vivian Stanshall: The Canyons Of His Mind, Slater claims that the name was inspired by playing a Dada-ist word game using Cut-up technique, which involves writing words or phrases on paper, tearing the paper into strips and then randomly re-assembling the strips to form new phrases. One of the phrases created was "Bonzo Dog Dada Band": Bonzo Dog after Bonzo the dog. a popular British cartoon character created by artist George Studdy in the 1920s, and Dada after the early 20th-century art movement.
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