* 1944 – Neil Innes, English singer and songwriter ( Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles )

The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band is seen playing its song " Death Cab for Cutie " ( also performed in The Beatles ' film Magical Mystery Tour ) in the DVD, Episode 7.

Aside from his romantic relationships, although his behaviour was outrageous, it was in the humorous vein as his friend Vivian Stanshall, of the Bonzo Dog Band claimed.

A parody of a track on the album was that by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's 1968 song " We Are Normal ", which featured a line from " The Red Telephone ", viz ' We are normal and we want our freedom / We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon '.

The show also featured musical numbers by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, including future Monty Python musical collaborator Neil Innes.

* 1943 – Vivian Stanshall, English musician ( Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band ) ( d. 1995 )

* A song by Mickey Simmonds entitled " Mornington Crescent " appears on the Bonzo Dog Band ’ s 2007 album, Pour l ' Amour des Chiens.

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The Rutles had connections with The Beatles, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Monty Python.

During the 1990s the term Cool Britannia ( drawn from a humorous version by the Bonzo Dog Band of the song " Rule Britannia ", with words by James Thomson, which is often used as an unofficial national anthem ), was used to describe the contemporary United Kingdom.

* Vivian Stanshall, musician, painter, singer, broadcaster, songwriter, poet and writer, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, grew up in Grove Road, Walthamstow.

Vivian Stanshall ( born Victor Anthony Stanshall ; 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995 ) was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.

One of the combinations that came out of this exercise was " Bonzo Dog / Dada ".

Thus they became the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – later abbreviated to The Bonzo Dog Band, or just The Bonzos.

According to the band's manager Gerry Bron ( brother of the actress Eleanor Bron ), Vivian Stanshall was given several weeks to produce songs for the new professional Bonzo Dog Band.

Stanshall went on to form various short-lived groups including The Sean Head Showband, Bonzo Dog Freaks ( featuring the guitar talents of the rotund Bubs White ) and BiG GrunT.

Legal action was taken in the case of Neil Innes ( formerly of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and The Rutles ) who sued after the song " Whatever " borrowed from his " How Sweet to Be an Idiot ".

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It was an offshoot of the eclectic Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and shared many similarities with other outfits of the time such as The New Vaudeville Band and The Temperance Seven.

* " Beautiful Zelda ", a song on Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's 1968 album The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse

Liberty established a branch office in London, which signed acts such as the Bonzo Dog Band, Idle Race and The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation.

" Equestrian Statue " is the title of a 1967 song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, in which a town square is enlivened by the presence of an equestrian statue of a former dignitary.

* " I'm the Urban Spaceman " – Neil Innes performs the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band number as Carol Cleveland tap dances and constantly loses timing of the song.

The line-up included Bob Dylan, The Nice, Pretty Things, The Who, Third Ear Band, and The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

That November the quartet signed a manager, Chris Wright, and decided to change its name to Blues Trip, Blues Yard ( under which they played a show at the Marquee Club supporting the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band ), and finally in November 1966, to Ten Years After.

* In the list of people " playing " in the song " The Intro and the Outro " by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Brainiac is on banjo.

Gibbard took the band name from the title of the song written by Neil Innes and Vivian Stanshall and performed by their group, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, in The Beatles ' 1967 film, Magical Mystery Tour.

* Bob Kerr ( musician ) ( born 1943 ), comic musician ; member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The New Vaudeville Band and Bob Kerr's Whoopie Band

The format of the show was phone-in / quiz style with the occasional record thrown in – ' Two Little Boys ' by Rolf Harris and ' Narcissus ' by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band being two that featured regularly.

Some of the other well known rock bands to play Mothers include: Family, Fleetwood Mac, Eclection, Edgar Broughton Band, Free, Roy Harper, Blodwyn Pig, Strawbs, Quintessence, Steppenwolf, Deep Purple, The Deviants, Jethro Tull, Jon Hiseman's Colosseum, Skid Row ( with Gary Moore ), The Nice, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Elton John, Fairport Convention, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Soft Machine, The Chicago Transit Authority, Moby Grape, Canned Heat ( there is a reference to the club in the sleeve notes of their 1969 compilation Canned Heat Cookbook ) and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

Butlin is listed as a member of the eclectic ( and fictional ) " orchestra " in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's recording, The Intro and the Outro, where he is credited with playing the spoons.

* " Labio Dental Fricative ", a song by Vivian Stanshall & The Sean Head Showband, included on the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band album The History of the Bonzos

Recordings by Liberty UK act The Bonzo Dog Band and Kim Fowley were issued in the USA on the Imperial label.

* The Bonzo Dog Band

A major tribute for John Bonham entitled " Bonzo: The Groove Remains the Same — A Night In Honor of John Henry Bonham " was performed on 25 September 2010 — the 30th anniversary of his death.

Innes, a former member of the British musical comedy group Bonzo Dog Band and Monty Python's de facto musician, was acquainted with the Beatles as the Bonzos had a cameo appearance in the movie Magical Mystery Tour in which they performed " Death Cab for Cutie ".

A former member of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, longtime songwriter for and performer with Monty Python, and later to be part of musical acts the Grimms, The World, and The Rutles, Innes wrote and performed most of the songs in the show, often in the guise of another character, such as Stoop Solo.

" Death Cab for Cutie " is a song composed by Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes and performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

Songs performed by the Bonzo Dog Band ( Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band )

The film was later referenced in connection with Reagan in the 1986 Ramones song " My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down ( Bonzo Goes to Bitburg )", and in a track on a 1984 Jerry Harrison record, sampling Reagan and credited to " Bonzo goes to Washington ".

A song unflattering to Reagan entitled " Bad Time for Bonzo " is featured on The Damned's fourth studio album, Strawberries.

" Hello Mabel " is a song by the Bonzo Dog Band released in England on their album The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse ( released as Urban Spaceman in the US.

In 1967, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's album parodied the expression in the sleeve notes for the song " Cool Britannia ", which said " Someone letta Freak-Out?

* " Bad Blood ", a song by the Bonzo Dog Band from their 1972 album Let's Make Up and Be Friendly

The Ramones recorded the song " My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down ( Bonzo Goes to Bitburg )," which alludes to Bedtime for Bonzo, a movie from Reagan's film career that co-starred a chimpanzee, and Frank Zappa recorded " Reagan At Bitburg ".

The Bonzo Dog Band mentioned Weedon in their song " We are Normal " on their album, The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse ( 1969 ).

The song is one of the better known songs in the Bonzo Dog Band canon because it was featured in the Beatles ' television film Magical Mystery Tour.

The Bonzo Dog Band can be seen playing the song in a 1967 episode of the children's TV series Do Not Adjust Your Set, which is now available on DVD.

The phrase " Cool Britannia " was first used in 1967 as a song title by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.