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English musician, artist and author

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Vivian Stanshall (21 March 1943 – 5 March 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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Birth Name: Victor Anthony Stanshall

Native Name: Vivian Anthony Stanshall • Viv Stanshall

Alternative Names: Victor Stanshall

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Willy consulted a book called I-ching. Florrie suggested calamine lotion to stop it.... Henry suggested it sounded like something a gentleman would do behind a handkerchief

English as tuppence, changing yet changeless as canal-water, nestling in green nowhere, armoured and effete, bold flag-bearer, lotus fed Miss Havishambling, opsimath and eremite, feudal-still reactionary Rawlinson End. The story so far. (Dot dot dot.)

Wrestled Anaconda and she's a big girl

why do male nudists wear towels to play tennis?

Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party ...

Do have an unusual day, won't you?

Why can't I be different and original, like everybody else?

Viv Stanshall? I didn't know that.

And, looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes. Nice!

The gutters leaked like secrets, and the rain rained rain like rain...

I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!

I'm going to rhino over your lino

Vivian Stanshall, about three o'clock in the morning, Oxfordshire, 1973, goodnight...

The hounds are all fagged out after yesterday's Jehovah's Witnesses ... we do not want more blood all over the lawns again

Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again.