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“He came in with Billy Bunter trousers, frock coat, euphonium and horrible glasses. And big rubber ears. I thought, ‘Yeah, I’ll sign up to this’”: In 1962 a band decided to play as badly as possible until someone noticed. It worked.

They blended prog, art-rock, visual theatre, Dadaism and music hall – and never pretended to do any of it well

The 20 best Oasis songs, ranked: From Champagne Supernova to Live Forever

The 20 best Oasis songs, ranked: From Champagne Supernova to Live Forever

THE COUNTDOWN: As the Gallagher brothers finally prepare to reunite onstage for the first time since 2009, Mark Beaumont and Roisin O’Connor take a trip through their favourites from the Oasis back catalogue

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“All over the shop… The template for The Rutles is clearly there, and there’s a bridge between The Goons and Monty Python”: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band’s Still Barking

“All over the shop… The template for The Rutles is clearly there, and there’s a bridge between The Goons and Monty Python”: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band’s Still Barking

17 CDs and three DVDs provide everything you need to know about a counterculture band many have heard of, but fewer have listened to

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“The NME said, ‘There’s one of your Rutles songs on this Beatles bootleg album.’ I got them to play it to me over the phone. I said, ‘That’s me on Saturday Night Live!’” How prog were Neil Innes and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band?

The Bonzo Dog and Rutles man discusses his career and recent studio album Nearly Really...

“I’d never considered myself a lyric writer, but me and Terry put it together in about 15 minutes. Then, we went to the pub!”: Michael Palin on his most famous musical moment and the “genius” of Neil lnnes

“Neil’s got a songwriting credit on an Oasis track? I can only assume I was on one of my big trips at the time but it just shows you how good his music was,” he says

“A lot of people turned up just to see what we could get away with, the sheer nerve of it all… we weren’t pretending to be very good at what we did”: the implausible rise of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

Vivian Stanshall and his conspirators aimed to “play as loudly and badly as possible until someone took notice” – and it actually worked

‘On best behaviour, he was a joy’: the lost archive of English pop eccentric Vivian Stanshall

The man best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band was brilliant but volatile, and met an untimely end. Now his unfinished work has been rescued

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Pothole campaigner claims Scots council has banned him from fixing roads himself

Pothole campaigner claims Scots council has banned him from fixing roads himself

Cyclist Neil Innes said when he offered to fix the roads using contractors, Aberdeenshire Council stepped in to ban him from doing the work.

The Rutles: the strange and surreal story of the original Spinal Tap

The Rutles: the strange and surreal story of the original Spinal Tap

Formed from the ashes of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Rutles were a razorsharp pastiche of The Beatles with links to Monty Python and the Fab Four themselves

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