This was also meant as a friendly parody of Edmundo Ros, a calypso based dance band leader. Edmundo found it absolutely HILARIOUS, and was a friend of Viv's until Viv's untimely death.
this viv is not the viv that died in the fire this viv is the man you know as paul mccartney today has the exact same face measurements and the same wandering left eye
Yeah, get six white guys together today who slap on black face make up with big huge white lips... called it "a parody." See how that goes over on social media. SO RACIST. JEEZ, can't BELIEVE how racist this "parody" is.
Silly Billy And The Pepperpots, with Billy here performing as Viv Stanshall and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, the monster coming is Billy Shepherd/ Shears.
Seen them backing up Eric Clapton when he first went solo. In an interview with Clapton, they asked him why the~Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band? Eric said simply that they made him Laugh. After their performance, i could see why.
You'd need to know that this was broadcast in the heyday of the dubious "Black & White Minstrels" tv show, as enjoyed by Mums and Dads everywhere - and that show was what the Bonzos were sending up.
Making a "parody" of white people doing parody of black people is still RACIST AS F*CK. It's not "woke" to say that. It's being NOT A STUPID DUMB F*CK RACIST who laughs at the "N*GGER JOKES." Notice that Neil Innes doesn't look too happy about this one.
@@thenobullshtchannel8768 Hmmz. That's simply not true, it's always been offensive to a lot of black folks, but probably not to the insulated white audiences of the time.
It also scared me too as a little kid, esp as the song ends with the weird distortion eclipsing everything. Also, I always used to picture Gilligan from “Gilligan’s Island” as the person who was warning us with increasing intensity about the monster…
Vivian Stanshall - one of the great charismatic front men. That was him fronting the same band in the strip scene in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour.
I love this ! It's also hilarious in 2021 that this performance on a kids TV show would likely offend everyone and be international news for weeks ! :-) It's a great tune and performance. I love the Bonzo's...
Absolutely fantastic. I used to go and see Do Not Adjust Your Set being made at Wembley studios as a teenager. Nothing but fun and laughter directed at all victims. It was so chilled then, why can't people chill now?
Felt like I stepped into a time machine today listening to gold oldies. I hope more people discover Bonzo Dog Band after Paul praised them and said that him and John came up with Dennis O'Bell because of Vivian and that they inspired You know my name.
Once people comprehend the first hurdle, the rest is fairly straightforward. The only part I'm confused about is the "lovely Japanese girls" phrase. I'm sure it refers to Freemasons and their ability to give you a leg-up if you're a member of the club and pay your dues, but I'm not sure why they were described in that specific way. It could be a weird secret masonic phrase like "Are you a travelling man?" or "Have you seen my dog Hiram?" but of a higher level and hence less commonly known. Maybe high level masons refer to lower level members as geishas because they have to be subservient and do the bidding of their masters for years before they're trusted enough to climb further up the pyramid. I know that's a bit of a stretch but that's all I could come up with.
@Illumi Notme Haha, I don't know why I hadn't thought of her before either. But now that you mentioned it, it does seem to work. Yoko was sent on an errand to Paul/Billy's home in London by someone named John Cage ("They arrange a meeting"), ostensibly to obtain a manuscript for a book he was working on about the Beatles, but the whole premise and scenario as told publicly seems ridiculous. From what I can tell, John Cage knew none of the Beatles but still felt it was appropriate to send another unknown to Paul's home and ask him for some free music he'd written. Paul rejected the request, but still referred her on to John along with some pointers on how to be more subtle about it and impress him enough to get what she wanted. Whole swathes of the mainstream story here seem to be inaccurate and missing many fundamental details, but even on the surface it seems quite in line with "lovely Japanese girls have been trained in the art of pleasing men" (except the "lovely" part I guess).
I see this piece as the Bonzos playing with & off of British Music Hall & radio traditions, which is a huge theme in their music, TV appearances & album photos. Their harshest ridicule/satires were of the Brit Upper Class & complacent Middle classes: "Sport (The Odd Boy)", "Urban Spaceman", "Hunting Tigers"...It may be possible from 46 years distance to laugh AT the Bonzos as they intended, without laughing at Caribbean Islanders.
Yep...I always felt it was making a comparison between the false promises given West Indian immigrants of a better life in Britain and those adverts in the back of magazines offering any old tat with promises of changing your life.
The bunny hops at the end - I mean, how else could you end this?! Viv Stanshall was an absolute genius and very far ahead of his time while somehow remaining about 40 years behind it as well. Still sadly missed.
How about ending it with an African American man being lynched... hung by the neck, you know.... "it's not racist, it's just a parody of white nazi lynch mobs killing (N word) people." If you can't get past the lynch mob nazis and the black face minstrel... well, you just aren't one of us. init? F*CKING RACIST AS HELL BULL SH*t VIDEO... I loved and respected the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band... UNTIL I saw this HORRIBLE PIECE OF BULLSH*T video. CONDEMNATION!!!! CONDEMNATION FOR DOING THIS!!!
RIP VIv, god bless you were unique. The bonzos were a massive influence on my life,I would rush home from school to see this prog, so embrionic for future comedy. Many thanks for posting
@nik418: spot on. it also rips the piss out of the calypso music boom that happened in the UK in the mid 60s (see Lance Percival on That Was The Week That Was). Both Vi Stanshall and Neil Innes have been passed over by the mainstream in spite of both of them being rather fabulous.
@@robertdennisdowning1076 Yep. Most definitely misguided, even if well intentioned. Even if it’s attempting to parody it’s still reinforcing racist stereotypes.
The lyrics of this song are mostly quotes from small advertisements that would appear in the back pages of cheap magazines aimed at men, for various products that claimed they would improve your appearance or make you more popular or would help you attract women.
and the monster refers to that time when kids used to order posters and life size likeness of famous monster like Frankenstein, Dracula, the creature, and werewolf. you to scare their siblings or friends.
I don't know, there's a certain charm to this song. I can't help but like it, and seeing it as a live performance, looks like they were having as much fun as they were making music.
Nobody's perfect Least of all me Married the job at aged 23 Just keep my nose clean Egg chips and beans I'm always full of steam. [I could never afford to go to Butlins.etc... etc...]
The black and white minstrel show was still getting on the telly up till the early 80s, years after this. Clearly that’s what the Bonzos are satirising
I think this may have been a parody of The Spinners, a 60s English folk group which had one West Indian member and usually threw a couple of Caribbean numbers into their set, very popular on TV in their day. Viv's vocal sounds very like the Spinner's singer Cliff Hall and I suspect this is deliberate. This particular performance appears to be inspired by contempt for the Black And White Minstrels as already suggested.
To the Craig Ferguson visitors: yes, Milton Cornplaster was Terry Jones of Monty Python, and David Jason (Touch of Frost) was the announcer, in this pre-Python kid's show co-starring Michael Palin, Eric Idle and the Bonzo Dog Band (featuring on guitar Python Musician Neil Innes (you'll remember him as Robin's Minstrel in Holy Grail)
@Dzjeek this is one of the elements that contributed to the formation of Monty Python, some of the others being the Frost Report, How to irritate people, At last the 1948 show, and the list goes on.
Bonzo dog used to be played a lot on a Saturday morning on the children's program on the radio, as was sparky the magic piano and Tubby the Tuba. That was when kids were kids and mobile phones were a thing on Star Trek. Can't remember the name of the show but I think it was before Ed Stew-Pot Stewart's era. Think I still have a couple of their vinyl albums tucked away somewhere. i know the first one I purchased was called Keynsham. Viv Stanshall also famously did the instrument intros on tubular Bells.
This is "Paul Mccartney" literally telling the story of having a japanese girl trained in the art of pleasing men. They should arrange a meeting". Him setting Yoko on John. The rest is literally 3 minutes of him telling us he got plastic surgery, learned how to strum the guitar... Its all right here. Fucking genius fooled the world.
Jimmy Ruggiero I know right! Have you read the book “The Memoirs of Billy Shears”? It totally blows my mind that others can’t see the truth of it. He is a genius INDEED x
@@olskzeri2723 but, but.. the lyrics! Why has no one said anything about the similarities between the PID story and these lyrics? Could this song be about WWS? 🤔
Roy Wood and Wizzard were obviously heavily influenced by these guys . Bonzos borrowed from everything while making something totally unique to themselves .
Lonely, unmarried, looking for love, Life was passing me by. So I sent off my photo, hobbies and age; Magazine marriage I tried. They say for centuries lovely Japanese girls Have been trained in the art of pleasing men. Be lonely no more, open destiny's door. For one dollar they arrange a meeting. My image was wrong, I didn't like me, So I changed my personality. I bought a delux Merseybeat wig But it was a size too big. What confidence in my new built-up shoes, So smart for winter or summer. Undetectable in normal everyday use. Look out there's a monster coming! Bye-bye binoculars and macintosh, Everything is just great. I take elocution, learn to speak posh But still I can't find a mate. Be popular, learn to play the guitar, In seven days you could be strumming. Be sociable, learn kissing technique. Look out there's a monster coming! Carnaby clothes, I reshaped my nose, Plastic surgery's best. To cut down my weight off comes my left leg. I pass a swimming costume test. Are my sideboards too long, Don't my aftershave pong? I know my new nose ain't runnin'. What's wrong with my tie? Am I getting too high? Look out there's a monster coming! Disfiguring and ugly, my facial hair I had removed electrically. I rejuvenated my energy cells And regained my virility (grunt grunt). (He put my hand on my heart?), (I am changing the part?). He had a machine for a mummy. Please be gentle with me: I come to pieces literally. Look out there's a monster coming! Look out there's a monster coming! Look out there's a monster coming!
Yeah! The Grande crowd dug them all to hell, and also at the State Fair grounds, but when months later when the original Led Zeppelin band toured, they were booed off the stage! This illustrates how Detroit audiences were the most sophisticated in the world. (Then it all went to hell.)
It seems to me that there is a leadership battle between Neil and Viv. I am puzzled why Viv, one of my comedy heroes, never went on to outshine the lesser talents in this video. The lyrics and delivery of this song are far ahead of their time (remember 'Right Said Fred' was only a few years previously). Anyway, there was always Tubular Bells, I suppose
My god smoked so many spliffs listening to the Bonzos. Thanks for the memories.
im just here because of Craig Ferguson/Geoff Peterson :)
As well as I. Honestly, I thought it was dub step haha
I visited Craig Ferguson because of you!
Lmao same here
HA! Me too😝
Saaaame
Incredibly good. I love it when Vivian laughs 😁
This was also meant as a friendly parody of Edmundo Ros, a calypso based dance band leader. Edmundo found it absolutely HILARIOUS, and was a friend of Viv's until Viv's untimely death.
I think it's also parodies the Black & White Minstrel Show which was a popular program at the time.
@@brianthesnape Oh yes, agreed totally, certainly the video did. But sonically it was an Edmundo parody all the way.
Which Viv? hmmmmm
this viv is not the viv that died in the fire
this viv is the man you know as paul mccartney today
has the exact same face measurements and the same wandering left eye
Yeah, get six white guys together today who slap on black face make up with big huge white lips... called it "a parody." See how that goes over on social media. SO RACIST. JEEZ, can't BELIEVE how racist this "parody" is.
The brilliant weirdness of Viv Stanshall was absolutely awesome!
It's 'Paul McCartney'.
@@jrb4935
No it's not.
Don't be so daft!
Have you really fallen for that crap?
Dear oh dear oh dear! What planet are you on?
He's wearing the makeup to hide the surgery scars. Also listen to the lyrics.@@jackdshellback3819
This is one of the coolest yet STRANGEST song I've ever heard.
This one has PID clues as well@@davidmack4185
and it's "Paul' as VIV@@davidmack4185
Silly Billy And The Pepperpots, with Billy here performing as Viv Stanshall and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, the monster coming is Billy Shepherd/ Shears.
EXACTLY!
Greatest band of all time, they existed decades before I was born, shame, would kill to see them live.
Seen them backing up Eric Clapton when he first went solo. In an interview with Clapton, they asked him why the~Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band? Eric said simply that they made him Laugh. After their performance, i could see why.
Still fantastic after all these years
Except for the blackface.
@@jeffreygordon7194 nonsense. it is part of the hilarity.
@@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo it's funny to you because you're a bigot though.
Best Pop Combo EVER!
You'd need to know that this was broadcast in the heyday of the dubious "Black & White Minstrels" tv show, as enjoyed by Mums and Dads everywhere - and that show was what the Bonzos were sending up.
Try telling that to the woke BBC of today
Making a "parody" of white people doing parody of black people is still RACIST AS F*CK. It's not "woke" to say that. It's being NOT A STUPID DUMB F*CK RACIST who laughs at the "N*GGER JOKES." Notice that Neil Innes doesn't look too happy about this one.
A woke BBC licence costs £75.00 these Dayz. The Bonzos were good.
Please explain what you understand by the word ‘woke’ ?
@@mhicmacglashan3145 'woke' means anyone who doesnt applaud blatant racism
This is a 1968 show from England, Called Do not adjust your set.This is the begin ning of the Bonzo Dog DooDah Band and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
blackface ..just wrong..Those guys are so talented
Blackface in the 60s didn’t mean nothin, just good times
@@thenobullshtchannel8768 indeed, vivian stanshall himself was friends with african guys.
@@thenobullshtchannel8768 Hmmz. That's simply not true, it's always been offensive to a lot of black folks, but probably not to the insulated white audiences of the time.
This song used to scare me as a little kid whenever he said lookout there's a monster coming
It scared my son too !
It also scared me too as a little kid, esp as the song ends with the weird distortion eclipsing everything. Also, I always used to picture Gilligan from “Gilligan’s Island” as the person who was warning us with increasing intensity about the monster…
Vivian Stanshall - one of the great charismatic front men. That was him fronting the same band in the strip scene in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour.
Death cab for cutie.
Not to mention playing the part of McCartney full time since late 1966.
@@newsbender YES!
I've always loved the Bonzos but I never got to see them perform. They're even weirder than I thought!
One of the greatest bands ever!
I took so much acid listening to the Bonzos. Ah, good times.
Me too.And I saw some of them and Python at the inaugural party of the GLF. When we left Spike Milligan drove past in a psychedelic Mini and waved!
@@stuartcalow737 lots of weed for me and acid.
Ditto here. Not good times though...
Excellent times!
And I haven’t even got high yet!
We.... we are.... "you think you're normal?"
I love this ! It's also hilarious in 2021 that this performance on a kids TV show would likely offend everyone and be international news for weeks ! :-) It's a great tune and performance. I love the Bonzo's...
I was thinking the same.
I came across a picture of my father in law in a HS play.
Wearing the same type of makeup. In the mid 1950s...
I play it for my children in my school. Never had any issues with it. It may speak to my craziness that I'd play it for toddlers. 😂
Even if it was shown after the watershed, they would have to put out a warning.
Absolutely fantastic. I used to go and see Do Not Adjust Your Set being made at Wembley studios as a teenager. Nothing but fun and laughter directed at all victims. It was so chilled then, why can't people chill now?
Because they are politically correct uptight wankers
Because people have forgotten how to laugh, at themselves, and at others.
Great Stuff Neil innes and co. I had forgotten, just how musical talented they all were. Thanks for the posting
David flippin Jason, with the Bonzos' AND the proto-pythons!
Lucky bugger!
Lucky them!
Felt like I stepped into a time machine today listening to gold oldies. I hope more people discover Bonzo Dog Band after Paul praised them and said that him and John came up with Dennis O'Bell because of Vivian and that they inspired You know my name.
You- know, Yo-ko.
@@kentclark6420 l know bruv and I'm not Lex Luther
Seriously 😇
Brilliant beyond most people's ability to comprehend.
Once people comprehend the first hurdle, the rest is fairly straightforward. The only part I'm confused about is the "lovely Japanese girls" phrase. I'm sure it refers to Freemasons and their ability to give you a leg-up if you're a member of the club and pay your dues, but I'm not sure why they were described in that specific way. It could be a weird secret masonic phrase like "Are you a travelling man?" or "Have you seen my dog Hiram?" but of a higher level and hence less commonly known. Maybe high level masons refer to lower level members as geishas because they have to be subservient and do the bidding of their masters for years before they're trusted enough to climb further up the pyramid. I know that's a bit of a stretch but that's all I could come up with.
@Illumi Notme Haha, I don't know why I hadn't thought of her before either. But now that you mentioned it, it does seem to work. Yoko was sent on an errand to Paul/Billy's home in London by someone named John Cage ("They arrange a meeting"), ostensibly to obtain a manuscript for a book he was working on about the Beatles, but the whole premise and scenario as told publicly seems ridiculous. From what I can tell, John Cage knew none of the Beatles but still felt it was appropriate to send another unknown to Paul's home and ask him for some free music he'd written. Paul rejected the request, but still referred her on to John along with some pointers on how to be more subtle about it and impress him enough to get what she wanted. Whole swathes of the mainstream story here seem to be inaccurate and missing many fundamental details, but even on the surface it seems quite in line with "lovely Japanese girls
have been trained in the art of pleasing men" (except the "lovely" part I guess).
This is superb vintage stuff...thanks for uploading...
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band are the best. I'm off to Jollity Farm and check on my pink half of the drain pipe. :)
MY PINK HALF!
🦏
A young Terry Jones and David Jason plus a political incorrect band... those were great days.....!!
love the bonzos and thanks for the memories.
I see this piece as the Bonzos playing with & off of British Music Hall & radio traditions, which is a huge theme in their music, TV appearances & album photos. Their harshest ridicule/satires were of the Brit Upper Class & complacent Middle classes: "Sport (The Odd Boy)", "Urban Spaceman", "Hunting Tigers"...It may be possible from 46 years distance to laugh AT the Bonzos as they intended, without laughing at Caribbean Islanders.
Yep...I always felt it was making a comparison between the false promises given West Indian immigrants of a better life in Britain and those adverts in the back of magazines offering any old tat with promises of changing your life.
Love how much fun they are having! They do it for the music
Thanks for putting this up. I start my day, everyday listening to this. Pure genius!
Last thing I listen to at night, always go to sleep with a smile on my face
This song is about vivian’s transfer into Paul McCartney. merseybeat wig and Carnaby clothes, I reshaped my nose,
Plastic surgery's best.
So who played Viv Stanshall up until his death in 1995 if he metamorphed into Macca? You wackos make me laugh......not really.... you're mad and sad.
Viv stanshall is a character as well this the man whos McCartney is actually named billy shears
@@sixstringer98 wtf are you on? Explain 'Viv Stanshall is a character' you moron.
Whoever played VIV at the end went up in the fire.@@davidread7492
Great band !!!
The bunny hops at the end - I mean, how else could you end this?! Viv Stanshall was an absolute genius and very far ahead of his time while somehow remaining about 40 years behind it as well. Still sadly missed.
'Vivian Stanshall' is 'Paul McCartney'. It's the same man.
@@jrb4935 Billy Shears
How about ending it with an African American man being lynched... hung by the neck, you know.... "it's not racist, it's just a parody of white nazi lynch mobs killing (N word) people." If you can't get past the lynch mob nazis and the black face minstrel... well, you just aren't one of us. init? F*CKING RACIST AS HELL BULL SH*t VIDEO... I loved and respected the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band... UNTIL I saw this HORRIBLE PIECE OF BULLSH*T video. CONDEMNATION!!!! CONDEMNATION FOR DOING THIS!!!
@@jrb4935 Bollocks.
@@v00n2000 Just look at them, it's the same man.
RIP VIv, god bless you were unique.
The bonzos were a massive influence on my life,I would rush home from school to see this prog, so embrionic for future comedy.
Many thanks for posting
Me too, it was unmissable!
Look at Neil Innes. "I'm better than you people. " Heralding in the "unacceptable " era.
Coming home from school to see DNAYS. Brilliant.
Yes, same as!
I had no clue until today that this inspired Paul & John to make You Know My Name. Greetings from Germany!
Holy shit- is that true? That’s literally my favourite Beatles song!
here because of mccartney "very interesting, unusual characters, lads who just wanted to have fun" first time hearing this and I love it
@nik418: spot on.
it also rips the piss out of the calypso music boom that happened in the UK in the mid 60s (see Lance Percival on That Was The Week That Was). Both Vi Stanshall and Neil Innes have been passed over by the mainstream in spite of both of them being rather fabulous.
and rather dead.
Loved the Bomzos and this show but this was offensive even in 1968.
@@robertdennisdowning1076 Yep. Most definitely misguided, even if well intentioned. Even if it’s attempting to parody it’s still reinforcing racist stereotypes.
Billy Sheers
Vivian Stanshall was a genius. Thanks for the upload :)
I think they were trying to send up The Black and White Minstrel Show.
viv and the bonzos are fantastic hear..but also spot a very young david jason!
I'm here because I love great music videos. Thank you.
When I played this tune to my friend, he asked what the name of the band was. "The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band", I said. "Figures," he replied.
My favourite band!!
Come for the Craig Fergson, stay for the blackface.
The lyrics of this song are mostly quotes from small advertisements that would appear in the back pages of cheap magazines aimed at men, for various products that claimed they would improve your appearance or make you more popular or would help you attract women.
and the monster refers to that time when kids used to order posters and life size likeness of famous monster like Frankenstein, Dracula, the creature, and werewolf. you to scare their siblings or friends.
I don't know, there's a certain charm to this song. I can't help but like it, and seeing it as a live performance, looks like they were having as much fun as they were making music.
Reminds me of Steve Hackett's song "Ballad of the Decomposing Man" (especially the second half of the song).
Nobody's perfect
Least of all me
Married the job at aged 23
Just keep my nose clean
Egg chips and beans
I'm always full of steam.
[I could never afford to go to Butlins.etc... etc...]
The One! The Only! Mr Viv Stanshall! For anyone not in the know, lend an ear to "Rawlinson End"
Milton Cornplaster. Still superb.
Terry Jones in full pelt
Viv Stanshall - genius, simply genius. Look at his mocked calypso dancing 🕺
Loved 'em!
Bonkers Bonzos are fantastic.
Geoff Peterson!!! AWESOME!!!! Love Craig Ferguson!!!
the Spike Jones of their generation
David Jason, the Bonzos and a Monty Python (Terry Jones). Absolutely non PC, and I love it! Donut in granny’s greenhouse? Urban what?
I thought that looked like Terry Jones!
best band ever
The first person shown is none other than Monty Python's own Terry Jones....
Remember watching this 1st time round. RIP Viv Stanshall and all the lads ,sadly missed.
broderick bassett
Most of them are still alive as of October 2018.
Sam Spoons died last month.
@@anonUK even the Guy Who played Viv Stanshall in Magical Mystery Tour is alive in 2018.
He has retired the Viv outfit but check out the other persona he plays. He did release a album called "Egypt station" this year.
@@olskzeri2723 correct.
The black and white minstrel show was still getting on the telly up till the early 80s, years after this. Clearly that’s what the Bonzos are satirising
I think this may have been a parody of The Spinners, a 60s English folk group which had one West Indian member and usually threw a couple of Caribbean numbers into their set, very popular on TV in their day. Viv's vocal sounds very like the Spinner's singer Cliff Hall and I suspect this is deliberate.
This particular performance appears to be inspired by contempt for the Black And White Minstrels as already suggested.
Try tell woke folks they wouldn't hear of it, average leftist doesn't know about such things as satire, they don't have a sense of humor
whiskeywowwow!!! this puppy ROCKS. THANK U MUCHO.
Just wonderful
To the Craig Ferguson visitors: yes, Milton Cornplaster was Terry Jones of Monty Python, and David Jason (Touch of Frost) was the announcer, in this pre-Python kid's show co-starring Michael Palin, Eric Idle and the Bonzo Dog Band (featuring on guitar Python Musician Neil Innes (you'll remember him as Robin's Minstrel in Holy Grail)
12 years to late but you forgot my favourite from that show Denise Coffey
its 6:10 A.M. I've come home wasted still and this popped up on my youtube screen.
This video scares the hell out of me! What the hells this?
Fab Viv et al. Beautiful.
Great stuff I wake up and dance to this cause I’m retire now , lookout I’m coming!!!
R.I.P. Terry Jones
@Dzjeek this is one of the elements that contributed to the formation of Monty Python, some of the others being the Frost Report, How to irritate people, At last the 1948 show, and the list goes on.
Bonzo dog used to be played a lot on a Saturday morning on the children's program on the radio, as was sparky the magic piano and Tubby the Tuba. That was when kids were kids and mobile phones were a thing on Star Trek. Can't remember the name of the show but I think it was before Ed Stew-Pot Stewart's era. Think I still have a couple of their vinyl albums tucked away somewhere. i know the first one I purchased was called Keynsham. Viv Stanshall also famously did the instrument intros on tubular Bells.
Uncle Mac
Watched a bunch of Craig Ferguson, then All You Need Is Cash, a few Rutles-related things, Death Cab For Cutie by the Bonzos, then here.
At 1:54, you can hear Viv struggle to hold a real laugh back.
Wow this is really good! Thanks Paul!
I love this.
From Al Jolson to "The Monster Mash" by Terry Knight and the Pack say hello to "The Memoirs of Billy Shears."
Was that Michael Palin on one of the guitars ? I LOVE this beautiful song .
And the beautiful lyrics brought tears to my legs !
probably, as this was on 'Do Not Adjust Your Set', on which Palin was one of the writers/presenters.
This is "Paul Mccartney" literally telling the story of having a japanese girl trained in the art of pleasing men. They should arrange a meeting". Him setting Yoko on John. The rest is literally 3 minutes of him telling us he got plastic surgery, learned how to strum the guitar... Its all right here. Fucking genius fooled the world.
Paul McCartney? Born under the name of Vivian Stanshall - and passed away under that name as well...
Jimmy Ruggiero I know right! Have you read the book “The Memoirs of Billy Shears”? It totally blows my mind that others can’t see the truth of it. He is a genius INDEED x
It's all there if you have an open mind. Plastic surgery, meeting Yoko, etc.
There's a monster coming.....william, son of the magician@@talkcat10
god bless you Viv always in my heart.
Brilliant!
David Jason and Terry Jones!
gemma stone I recognized Terry Jones, I wasn't sure who the other guy was.
David Jason sounding like Eamonn Andrews.
Julia Naylor
More like Hughie Greene.
I THOUGHT that was Danger Mouse at the opening, there!
Good grief!
@@julianaylor4351 Hughie Green I think
A moment of silence for all those people who did not know about this band and a song until McCartney recommended it today.
Where did he recommended it?
Actually it was Craig ferguson waaay back
Viv is Billy/Paul.. crazy
@@spideytube9750 I was more wondering when did he (date?), and why did he signpost this song. Lyrics...
😂 😂 😂 The cheeky wink at 2.31
That monster coming is the 21st century pc brigade. Do Not Adjust your Set, tv series hit and miss series from sixties,
the end of this song ust to scare me when i was a kid LOL
paul mccartney...
Half right. He is not Paul McCartney either. Both Paul and Viv are roles William plays. RIP James Paul McCartney!
@@olskzeri2723 but, but.. the lyrics! Why has no one said anything about the similarities between the PID story and these lyrics? Could this song be about WWS? 🤔
@@ConnectTheDotsProper Christ man Bill isnt a monster, and he's still got his left leg
He may be more of a monster than we think.@@irplane
I've only just found you guys I think you are great I'll tell all my friends thanks for what you do
humour on many levels....absolutely brilliant
I always felt that humor, like this, that required some degree of thought was more humorous.
@@kentclark6420 yep. They would be the comedian's comedian. The 2 saxophonists are an absolute riot.
If Mccartney says it's good n recommend to check it out then it's good. Didn't disappoint good stuff !!!
Roy Wood and Wizzard were obviously heavily influenced by these guys . Bonzos borrowed from everything while making something totally unique to themselves .
They bought oddball vintage 45s, and got ideas from them.
@@kentclark6420 78s , right !! One Man's Week shows Viv at the record shop and the Viv and Bonzo docs talk about it
Jarvis Cocker has all Vivians mannerisms to the T
FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only Bonzo Dog could make black face work, in 1968.
Lonely, unmarried, looking for love,
Life was passing me by.
So I sent off my photo, hobbies and age;
Magazine marriage I tried.
They say for centuries lovely Japanese girls
Have been trained in the art of pleasing men.
Be lonely no more, open destiny's door.
For one dollar they arrange a meeting.
My image was wrong, I didn't like me,
So I changed my personality.
I bought a delux Merseybeat wig
But it was a size too big.
What confidence in my new built-up shoes,
So smart for winter or summer.
Undetectable in normal everyday use.
Look out there's a monster coming!
Bye-bye binoculars and macintosh,
Everything is just great.
I take elocution, learn to speak posh
But still I can't find a mate.
Be popular, learn to play the guitar,
In seven days you could be strumming.
Be sociable, learn kissing technique.
Look out there's a monster coming!
Carnaby clothes, I reshaped my nose,
Plastic surgery's best.
To cut down my weight off comes my left leg.
I pass a swimming costume test.
Are my sideboards too long,
Don't my aftershave pong?
I know my new nose ain't runnin'.
What's wrong with my tie?
Am I getting too high?
Look out there's a monster coming!
Disfiguring and ugly, my facial hair
I had removed electrically.
I rejuvenated my energy cells
And regained my virility (grunt grunt).
(He put my hand on my heart?),
(I am changing the part?).
He had a machine for a mummy.
Please be gentle with me:
I come to pieces literally.
Look out there's a monster coming!
Look out there's a monster coming!
Look out there's a monster coming!
You're doing Dogs work Sam! Keep it up! :)
This sounds like a PID reference
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 thank you for the lyrics. I know them by heart anyway but much appreciated anyway👍
@@ConnectTheDotsProper merseybeat wig, new nose! What the hell that's amazing. His nose sis change even as vivian.
I thiiiink the uncertain lines are:
He put his hand on his heart, said "I can change ANY part!" (He had a machine for a mummy)
cool ty 1969- Detroit MI Grande Ballroom- they were so fun
Yeah! The Grande crowd dug them all to hell, and also at the State Fair grounds, but when months later when the original Led Zeppelin band toured, they were booed off the stage!
This illustrates how Detroit audiences were the most sophisticated in the world.
(Then it all went to hell.)
@@KeithOtisEdwards I had no idea they played in Detroit, I'm from there. I would have liked to see them, but I was still in school at the time.
Fantastic!
fab. good times.
It seems to me that there is a leadership battle between Neil and Viv. I am puzzled why Viv, one of my comedy heroes, never went on to outshine the lesser talents in this video. The lyrics and delivery of this song are far ahead of their time (remember 'Right Said Fred' was only a few years previously). Anyway, there was always Tubular Bells, I suppose
Wow Paul McCartney looks young here
top tune...
Black and white minstrels, out again, take five.!