Neil Innes

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Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes. ↗


— Neil Innes

#i #i think #kaye #larry #only

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs. ↗


— Neil Innes

#learn #look #play #pubs #songs

Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do. ↗


— Neil Innes

#going #had #ignore #just #kind

We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on. ↗


— Neil Innes

#could #dead #grateful #grateful dead #just

We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious. ↗


— Neil Innes

#going #play #show-biz #weren

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds. ↗


— Neil Innes

#come #dancing #decided #did #here






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He spent much of his childhood with his parents and older brother Iain in post-war Germany during his Scottish father's military assignment as a warrant officer. Neil James Innes (born 9 December 1944) is an English writer and performer of comic songs best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles. He co-wrote the "Most Awful Family in Britain" sketch and played a humorous stilted guitar version of the theme song The Liberty Bell March during the credits of the last episode "Party Political Broadcast".