#VivianStanshall
55 jaar
21 maart 1941-5 maart 1995
Engelse singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist en dichter. Hij was mede-oprichter van #TheBonzoDogDooDahBand met #NeilInnes, en is gekend voor zijn bijdrage als Sir Henry in een radioprogramma van #JohnPeel in het verkennen van de gebruiken in de Engelse hogere klassen, hij was ook de ceremoniemeester op #MikeOldfield zijn #TubularBells.
Hij maakt ook #SpokenWord voor #BBC1 genaamd Rawlinson End, hij
https://youtu.be/k-ymcdUA6g4
#GoneTooSoon
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The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band ~ The Intro and the Outro (hysterical annotated video)
#NowPlaying #VivianStanshall #BonzoDogBand

From the eccentric mind of Viv Stanshall, visually annotated for your pleasure. And yes, that actually is Eric Clapton on the Ukulele🌟

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9YXFeZkQM

"If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life“

#VivianStanshall #BonzoDogBand

Germaine Greer and Vivian Stanshall, OZ Magazine, 1969

‘On best behaviour, he was a joy’: The lost archive of English pop eccentric Vivian Stanshall
(Andrew Male)

The man best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Band was brilliant, volatile and met an untimely end. Now his unfinished work has been rescued.

#VivianStanshall #BonzoDogBand

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/12/on-best-behaviour-he-was-a-joy-the-lost-archive-of-english-pop-eccentric-vivian-stanshall

The genius that is Vivian Stanshall🌟

Vivian Stanshall: One Man's Week (1975)
#VivianStanshall #BonzoDogBand

A short documentary about a week in the life of Vivian Stanshall.

https://youtu.be/Fq1Ndnr2HtQ via @YouTube

Now Playing:

#Music #VivianStanshall

Couldn't wait, so treated myself to the two new albums of material by Vivian Stanshall, compiled and constructed from his unfinished recordings.

#Music #RawlinsonEnd #VivianStanshall

American contemporary artist Shara Hughes

My House Is The One With All The Holes In It, 2012
(Oil, enamel, acrylic and spray paint on canvas)

#Painting #Vivianstanshall

‘On best behaviour, he was a joy’: The lost archive of English pop eccentric Vivian Stanshall
(Andrew Male / The Guardian)
#VivianStanshall

The man best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Band was brilliant, volatile and met an untimely end. Now his unfinished work has been rescued.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/12/on-best-behaviour-he-was-a-joy-the-lost-archive-of-english-pop-eccentric-vivian-stanshall?

“‘On best behaviour, he was a joy’: the lost archive of English pop eccentric Vivian Stanshall”

#VivianStanshall #Bonzos #BonzoDogDooDahBand

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/12/on-best-behaviour-he-was-a-joy-the-lost-archive-of-english-pop-eccentric-vivian-stanshall

#NP: #NowPlaying:

Vivian Stanshall - 'Teddy Boys Don't Knit' (1981)

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#playallyourcdsagain #playallyouralbumsagain #albumcollection #Stanshall #VivianStanshall

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GideonCoe

Vivian Stanshall:
🎵 In The Final Analysis (Radio 1 Session, 16 Oct 1975)

#VivianStanshall

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GideonCoe

Vivian Stanshall:
🎵 Trail Of The Lonesome Pine (Radio 1 Session, 16 Oct 1975)

#VivianStanshall

https://open.spotify.com/track/09Rykozbfv9UZhLte1CEep

A quick drawing of #VivianStanshall, for what would have been his 80th birthday.

#VivStanshall #BonzoDogDooDahBand #OnThisDayInMusic #MastoArt

#NowPlaying
Vivian Stanshall "Ginger Geezer"

#VivianStanshall #Bonzos

https://youtu.be/D2NaWdEg9EM

RT @MichaelLivesley@twitter.com

Nice piece by @TheRising_Moon@twitter.com in @shindigmagazine@twitter.com covering the upcoming @OfficialBonzos@twitter.com box set, plus the 2 new albums from the late great #VivianStanshall produced by Andy Frizell and I. Join us @UnionChapelUK@twitter.com March 23rd to celebrate Viv's 80th!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MichaelLivesley/status/1618726220824453131

Really Spotify?? Are you sure? Pray, think again! I mean, if you can get him to perform then, yes, I'll def buy a couple of tickets!

#Spotify #VivianStanshall #TheBonzos #YouHadOneJob

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=A+Fairytale+of+Grimm+Art+Ki+Longfellow&i=stripbooks&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=ur2&linkId=133908cf3d6f3403576a9e41c8726f3c&tag=stiff-21

The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall - A Fairytale of Grimm Art by Ki Longfellow. Illustrated by Ben Wickey. Vivian Stanshall - A Foundling's Song written by Stanshall/Longfellow. Previously unreleased recording © 2017 Ki Longfellow-Stanshall. Video animation © 2017 Ben Wickey. Published with permission.

#VivianStanshall #SouthendOnSea #Book #KiLongfellow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7TD8K0pFG4&feature=youtu.be Watch the promo and pick up the references. Rather good ... for advertising.

"'I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself.' That is as true & good a personal code as anything 1 can say about a full life." From '14, my thoughts on a late Bonzo: '#VivianStanshall: Not an Eccentric.' http://wp.me/p49Ewg-dJ

#7AlbumsToKnowMe

#LarksTonguesInAspic - #KingCrimson
#BitchesBrew - #MilesDavis
#TijuanaMoods - #CharlesMingus
#VictoriaLand - #CocteauTwins
#RainDogs - #TomWaits
#CloseToTheEdge - #Yes
#Stratosfear - #TangerineDream

Bonus: #SirHenryAtRawlinsonEnd - #VivianStanshall