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.

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".