Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

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".