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" When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds. "

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" Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn. "

" In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters. "

" I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes. "

" Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes. "

" But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him. "

" I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways. "

" We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on. "

" I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue. "

" But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs. "

" I think most musicians do like to have a laugh. "

" Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along. "

" But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were. "

" As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player. "

" Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do. "

" Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. "

" But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. "

" I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. "

" And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything. "

" In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think. "

" I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos. "

" I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other. "

" So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs. "

" I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1. "

" We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious. "

" It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly? "