VIVIAN STANSHALL

Dog Howl In Tune MADFISH

JEREMY ALLEN

Long-lost final album from late national treasure. Vivian Stanshall has been dead for 28 years but he’s having a fine 2023 so far. In March, members of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles and The Mekons marked what would have been his 80th birthday at Islington’s Union Chapel with an emotional bash filled with musical comedy. He’s on the radar again thanks to Tubular Bells’ 50th anniversary – Stanshall played the part of the MC on that album and inadvertently gave it its title when he intoned the titular words in his famously fruity delivery – a moment that clearly chimed with Mike Oldfield. And Rawlinson’s End – perhaps his finest creation – returns for a final instalment on a double LP, released in tandem with arguably something even more…

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