Vivian Stanshall (1943 – 1995) was an English musician, painter, singer, broadcaster, songwriter, poet, writer, wit, and raconteur, 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.
"... changing, yet changeless as canal water ..." (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End)
"... gauzes of filmy Fellini ..." (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End)
"I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!" (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End)
"If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life" (My Pink Half of the Drainpipe)
"Do have an unusual day, won't you?" (Essex Teenager to Renaissance man)
"Do you know what a palmist once said to me? She said: WILL YOU LET GO!" (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.)
"Gentlemen, I am a bulldog, and you will find my bark is worse!" (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End)
"If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink." (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End)
"You got a light, mac? No...but I've got a dark brown overcoat." (Big Shot)
"That was inedible muck, and there wasn't enough of it." (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End)
"Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party ..." (Sir Henry at Rawlinson End)
"Why can't I be different and unusual...like everybody else?" (Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead)
"Mercifully, he hit him with the soft end of the pistol." (Sir Henry)
"Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again." (Sir Henry)
"I've never met a man I didn't mutilate." (Sir Henry)
"It was a great party until someone found the hammer." (Bonzo days)
"And, looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes. Nice!" (Intro and the Outro)
"If you're going to say anything filthy, please speak clearly." (Message on his answering machine)
"I've been looking for that particular son of a bitch for seven years. I could have been a doctor, or an architect." (Bad Blood)
"Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas." (Mr. Apollo)
"Vivian Stanshall, about three o'clock in the morning, Oxfordshire, 1973, goodnight..." (Tubular Bells: The original version of the Sailor's Hornpipe)
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