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

— Neil Innes

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

— Neil Innes

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

— Neil Innes

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

— Neil Innes

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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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Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes. ↗

— Neil Innes

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So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs. ↗

— Neil Innes

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Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

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We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success. ↗

— Neil Innes

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We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on. ↗

— Neil Innes

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