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Neil Innes

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I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.


— Neil Innes


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I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.


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I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.


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I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.


— Neil Innes


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I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.


— Neil Innes


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I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes.


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I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.


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In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.


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In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.


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It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?


— Neil Innes


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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".

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