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Vivian Stanshall (1943 – 1995)


Born Victor Anthony Stanshall, 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.
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Vivian Stanshall
Do you know what a palmist once said to me? She said: WILL YOU LET GO!
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Viv Stanshall? I didn't know that.
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The gutters leaked like secrets, and the rain rained rain like rain...




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It was a great party until someone found the hammer.
Stanshall Vivian
This unasked-for jollity in the middle of an English afternoon left Sir Henry shivering with a red passion, his face a crumpled tissue on which a lobster might well have wiped its bottom.
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