Artist: Bonzo Dog Band
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Tadpoles
Year: 1969
Tracks: 12
Besides, maybe, the Mothers of Invention (with whom they were sometimes compared), the Bonzo Dog Band were the most successful mathematical group to compound john Rock music and comedy. Starting off as the Bonzo Dog Dada Band, then becoming the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and then finally just the Bonzo Dog Band, the group was started by British fine art college students in the mid-'60s. Initially they were inclined toward trad jazz and vaudevillian routines, merely by the meter of their 1967 debut album, they were leaning further in pop and rock'n'roll directions. A brief appearance in the Beatles' Wizard Mystery Tour moving picture bolstered their visibility, and Paul McCartney (under the anonym Apollo C. Vermouth) produced their single "I'm the Urban Spaceman," which reached the British Top Five in 1968. The Bonzos truly arrive at their stride with their second and third albums, which launch them adding elements of psychedelia to their already-absurdist integrate of pop, night club, and Dada. The Bonzos could be sidesplitting, merely their records held up well because they were besides up to musicians and songwriters, paced by Neil Innes and Viv Stanshall (both of whom wrote the lion's ploughshare of their charles Herbert Best corporeal). The group attempted to displace into more serious and musical realms with their 1969 LP Keynsham, which, unsurprisingly, was acclaimed as their weakest endeavour. They stone-broke up shortly later on; Viv Stanshall made some obscure solo recordings (he was besides the grandstanding narrator on Mike Oldfield's "Tube-shaped Bells"). Neil Innes collaborated with members of Monty Python, upon whom the Bonzos were a big influence, as comfortably as piece of writing the songs for and playing in the Beatles documental put-on, The Rutles.
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