Vivian Stanshall (born Victor Anthony Stanshall; 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (as a radio series for John Peel, as an audio recording, as a book and as a film), and for acting as Master of Ceremonies on Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells.
Early life and education
Stanshall was born on 21 March 1943 at the Radcliffe Maternity Home in Shillingford, Oxfordshire, and christened Victor Anthony. He lived with his mother Eileen (née Wadeson) while his father, Victor Stanshall (1909–1990) served in the RAF during World War II. His father changed his name to Victor in preference to his given name Vivian. Stanshall described this early period as the happiest time of his childhood.
When the war ended, his father returned but the young Victor found him difficult and comparatively stern after having been alone with his mother. The family moved to the father's hometown of Walthamstow, Essex, where Stanshall's younger brother Mark was born six years later in 1949. With six years between them, the brothers were never close. Stanshall studied at Walthamstow College of Art, where he met fellow students Ian Dury and Peter Greenaway.
"Frankly, once I've eaten a thing... I don't expect to see it again."
"I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it."
"Once I was a forty pound weakling. Now I am two separate gorillas."
"'If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.'"
"Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?"
"Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!"
"Mercifully, he hit him with the soft end of the pistol."
"If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink."
A short documentary about a week in the life of Vivian Stanshall
published: 17 Apr 2015
Toyah Willcox Uncomfortable interview with Vivian Stanshall 1980
• Friday Night, Saturday Morning was a television chat show with a revolving guest host. It ran on BBC2 from 28 September 1979 to 2 April 1982, broadcast live from the Greenwood Theatre. The programme was the idea of Iain Johnstone and Will Wyatt, who insisted on a changing presenter every fortnight. Another innovation was that the presenters chose the guests they were to interview. (Info Source: Wikipedia)
published: 09 Sep 2020
Billy Shears (Vivian Stanshall, Paul McCartney, Phil Ackrill)
Billy was also in many other bands that were not mentioned in this video.
The book The Memoirs Of Billy Shears is mentioned on this channel. The book is very interesting and informative. However, it does contain dark content. Also, in my opinion, the book doesn't capture Billys true, kind personality.
published: 27 Oct 2023
Vivian Stanshall and his Sgt Pepper English Horn
Bill Shepherd with his cor anglais or English horn… what are the odds?
Video of "Viv" (playing his English horn) with Neil Innes (Rutles fame) on lead vocal. At the 1:50 mark listen to the lyrics "here's the twist, I don't exist" and Neil glances over to Viv (Billy). This is the song (Urban Spaceman) that "Paul McCartney" produced for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
published: 12 Aug 2018
Vivian Stanshall - "The Young Ones"
The inimitable Viv Stanshall with his take on The Young Ones. Photos of Viv, Syd (school) and a couple of paintings by Joash Woodrow
published: 02 Feb 2009
Paul vs Billy Shears/ Vivian Stanshall (read description)
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My point with the instrument comparisons is that Billy is right handed and Paul is left handed. Both musicians are brilliant. 💛
The book explains the timeline in which Billy played Vivian.
Billy used latex & filler as his Vivian role as well.
Vivian was a character that Billy created.
The book The Memoirs Of Billy Shears is mentioned on this channel. The book is very interesting and informative. However, it does contain dark content. Also, in my opinion, the book doesn't capture Billys true, kind personality.
Music:
A Taste Of Honey (Instrumental)
Let 'Em In (Instrumental)
published: 18 Apr 2023
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Death Cab For Cutie (DNAYS)
published: 11 Aug 2010
Vivian Stanshall - The Early Years BBC2's The Late Show Special (1993)
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published: 21 Mar 2023
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's Viv Stanshall Reviews the Sounds of December 1968
Blind Date with Viv Stanshall from Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Viv Stanshall reviews the sounds of Decemeber 1968
• Friday Night, Saturday Morning was a television chat show with a revolving guest host. It ran on BBC2 from 28 September 1979 to 2 April 1982, broadcast live f...
• Friday Night, Saturday Morning was a television chat show with a revolving guest host. It ran on BBC2 from 28 September 1979 to 2 April 1982, broadcast live from the Greenwood Theatre. The programme was the idea of Iain Johnstone and Will Wyatt, who insisted on a changing presenter every fortnight. Another innovation was that the presenters chose the guests they were to interview. (Info Source: Wikipedia)
• Friday Night, Saturday Morning was a television chat show with a revolving guest host. It ran on BBC2 from 28 September 1979 to 2 April 1982, broadcast live from the Greenwood Theatre. The programme was the idea of Iain Johnstone and Will Wyatt, who insisted on a changing presenter every fortnight. Another innovation was that the presenters chose the guests they were to interview. (Info Source: Wikipedia)
Billy was also in many other bands that were not mentioned in this video.
The book The Memoirs Of Billy Shears is mentioned on this channel. The book is very in...
Billy was also in many other bands that were not mentioned in this video.
The book The Memoirs Of Billy Shears is mentioned on this channel. The book is very interesting and informative. However, it does contain dark content. Also, in my opinion, the book doesn't capture Billys true, kind personality.
Billy was also in many other bands that were not mentioned in this video.
The book The Memoirs Of Billy Shears is mentioned on this channel. The book is very interesting and informative. However, it does contain dark content. Also, in my opinion, the book doesn't capture Billys true, kind personality.
Bill Shepherd with his cor anglais or English horn… what are the odds?
Video of "Viv" (playing his English horn) with Neil Innes (Rutles fame) on lead vocal. A...
Bill Shepherd with his cor anglais or English horn… what are the odds?
Video of "Viv" (playing his English horn) with Neil Innes (Rutles fame) on lead vocal. At the 1:50 mark listen to the lyrics "here's the twist, I don't exist" and Neil glances over to Viv (Billy). This is the song (Urban Spaceman) that "Paul McCartney" produced for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
Bill Shepherd with his cor anglais or English horn… what are the odds?
Video of "Viv" (playing his English horn) with Neil Innes (Rutles fame) on lead vocal. At the 1:50 mark listen to the lyrics "here's the twist, I don't exist" and Neil glances over to Viv (Billy). This is the song (Urban Spaceman) that "Paul McCartney" produced for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
Please read clarifications⬇️
My point with the instrument comparisons is that Billy is right handed and Paul is left handed. Both musicians are brilliant. 💛
The...
Please read clarifications⬇️
My point with the instrument comparisons is that Billy is right handed and Paul is left handed. Both musicians are brilliant. 💛
The book explains the timeline in which Billy played Vivian.
Billy used latex & filler as his Vivian role as well.
Vivian was a character that Billy created.
The book The Memoirs Of Billy Shears is mentioned on this channel. The book is very interesting and informative. However, it does contain dark content. Also, in my opinion, the book doesn't capture Billys true, kind personality.
Music:
A Taste Of Honey (Instrumental)
Let 'Em In (Instrumental)
Please read clarifications⬇️
My point with the instrument comparisons is that Billy is right handed and Paul is left handed. Both musicians are brilliant. 💛
The book explains the timeline in which Billy played Vivian.
Billy used latex & filler as his Vivian role as well.
Vivian was a character that Billy created.
The book The Memoirs Of Billy Shears is mentioned on this channel. The book is very interesting and informative. However, it does contain dark content. Also, in my opinion, the book doesn't capture Billys true, kind personality.
Music:
A Taste Of Honey (Instrumental)
Let 'Em In (Instrumental)
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• Friday Night, Saturday Morning was a television chat show with a revolving guest host. It ran on BBC2 from 28 September 1979 to 2 April 1982, broadcast live from the Greenwood Theatre. The programme was the idea of Iain Johnstone and Will Wyatt, who insisted on a changing presenter every fortnight. Another innovation was that the presenters chose the guests they were to interview. (Info Source: Wikipedia)
Billy was also in many other bands that were not mentioned in this video.
The book The Memoirs Of Billy Shears is mentioned on this channel. The book is very interesting and informative. However, it does contain dark content. Also, in my opinion, the book doesn't capture Billys true, kind personality.
Bill Shepherd with his cor anglais or English horn… what are the odds?
Video of "Viv" (playing his English horn) with Neil Innes (Rutles fame) on lead vocal. At the 1:50 mark listen to the lyrics "here's the twist, I don't exist" and Neil glances over to Viv (Billy). This is the song (Urban Spaceman) that "Paul McCartney" produced for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.
Please read clarifications⬇️
My point with the instrument comparisons is that Billy is right handed and Paul is left handed. Both musicians are brilliant. 💛
The book explains the timeline in which Billy played Vivian.
Billy used latex & filler as his Vivian role as well.
Vivian was a character that Billy created.
The book The Memoirs Of Billy Shears is mentioned on this channel. The book is very interesting and informative. However, it does contain dark content. Also, in my opinion, the book doesn't capture Billys true, kind personality.
Music:
A Taste Of Honey (Instrumental)
Let 'Em In (Instrumental)
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Vivian Stanshall (born Victor Anthony Stanshall; 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (as a radio series for John Peel, as an audio recording, as a book and as a film), and for acting as Master of Ceremonies on Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells.
Early life and education
Stanshall was born on 21 March 1943 at the Radcliffe Maternity Home in Shillingford, Oxfordshire, and christened Victor Anthony. He lived with his mother Eileen (née Wadeson) while his father, Victor Stanshall (1909–1990) served in the RAF during World War II. His father changed his name to Victor in preference to his given name Vivian. Stanshall described this early period as the happiest time of his childhood.
When the war ended, his father returned but the young Victor found him difficult and comparatively stern after having been alone with his mother. The family moved to the father's hometown of Walthamstow, Essex, where Stanshall's younger brother Mark was born six years later in 1949. With six years between them, the brothers were never close. Stanshall studied at Walthamstow College of Art, where he met fellow students Ian Dury and Peter Greenaway.
He and his fellow songwriter Vivian Stanshall were the Lennon and McCartney for a generation of awkward kids who looked askance at the grown-up world and took comfort in laughing at it instead ... Most popular. Ross Clark ... Gavin Mortimer ... Nigel Jones ... .
“I remember the local DJ came in. He had that compilation that Neil Rushton had done ... Their set will be heavy ... “We are huge, huge fans of stuff like the Bonzo Dog Band, Vivian Stanshall, all these kinds of things,” says Child ... ....
Now his unfinished work has been rescued When Vivian Stanshall was found dead on the morning of 6 March 1995, after a fire in his top-floor flat in Muswell Hill, north London, he left behind a grand creative legacy and a whole heap of chaos.
He had been living with what he recently described as “various forms of cancer” for a number of years ...Photograph ... 1973 solo album The Not Forgotten Association paired his beat poems with musical backings, played by the likes of Vivian Stanshall ... .
When Arthur Brown answers the phone, he announces. ... Who beat you to Number One? ... CORRECT ... CORRECT ... CORRECT ... WRONG ... I was there when he met Vivian Stanshall of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and they both were very similar in looks when you took a step back ... .