|
"I
went up and sang a few songs, and went off for a meal, and we
started talking about doing records for Monty Python. And I said,
'Well, what sort of songs have you written?' I think Eric said,
'Well, Michael's written this thing about Agrarian Reform in the
Middle Ages.' So I said, 'Ah. Ah. Right.' And they said, 'What
sort of music do you think that would have?' And I said, 'Reggae?'
And that's how it began. The collaboration, as it were.
 "The
thing was, a lot of the things, even Eric the Half a Bee or something
like that, I had a lot of input into the tunes. A lot of them
were just lyrics with nowhere to go, and I helped shaped them.
So even though I'm not credited on some of the tunes, I did have
a hand in quite a lot of them. Especially the Philosopher's Song."
|
After
the Bonzos split up, Eric rang me up out of the blue and said,
"Do you fancy coming up and doing a warm up for us over
at the television centre?" And I said, "I don't
do warm ups". He said, "It's 25 quid" and I
said, "Done."
