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Post by xanady on Dec 30, 2019 17:34:55 GMT
Goodbye to another icon as the decade ends.Wonderful tributes from John Cleese,Stephen Fry and others.A great talent and by all accounts a very sweet and gentle soul...a sad day,indeed
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Post by Marwood on Dec 30, 2019 18:13:49 GMT
Kind of shocked to hear about this today : I had a ticket to see The Rutles at the BFI a few months back that was followed with a Q&A with Neil but didn’t go in the end. I remember growing up with The Innes Book Of Records on tv and it seems impossible to think that anything remotely like that would be green lighted these days: R.I.P.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2020 0:54:52 GMT
Sad news, he wasn't really any great age. Like Marwood I can recall The Innes Book of Records and his numerous links to the Pythons. If anything in last decade he went back to his music touring with The Ruttles, Bonzo Dog Band, solo and even in a collective with Ade Edmondson, Phill Jupitus and Roland Rivron in The Idiot Bastard Band.
The later was great fun and they were clearly having a great time just getting out and playing. They just hired a small tour van and Ade drove them in it to the gigs.
Also his song How Sweet To Be An Idiot was ripped off by Oasis on Whatever and he got a co-write on the later which must have been a nice earner for him over the years.
I met him a couple of times and he was a very nice, humble guy. A huge amount of tributes have been paid to him and it is clear he was hugely popular and well liked by all.
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Post by Jan on Jan 15, 2020 10:06:19 GMT
More aged posters here will remember him in the 1960s with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. I saw him touring in the late 1970s - a quirky witty one-off.
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