The Bonzo Dog Band
| Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | The Bonzo Dog Band |
| Origin | London |
| Genres | Comedy rock, psychedelic pop, Light classical, experimental |
| 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
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.
On 25 September 1962, Vivian Stanshall (tuba, lead vocals and other wind instruments) and fellow art student Rodney Slater (saxophone) bonded over a transatlantic broadcast of a boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston. Slater had previously played in a trad jazz band at college with Chris Jennings (trombone) and Tom Parkinson (sousaphone). Roger Wilkes (trumpet) was the founder of the original band at the Royal College of Art, along with Trevor Brown (banjo). They slowly turned their style from more orthodox music towards the 1920s-style sound of The Alberts and The Temperance Seven. In the early 1960s comedic pop records by artists such as Charlie Drake, Spike Milligan and Bernard Cribbins were popular and enjoyed chart success, along with pop parodies by The Barron Knights.
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