Genres: Comedy, Psychedelic, Comedy Rock, Song Parody, Psychedelic Pop, British Psychedelia Active: 60's, 70's Formed: 1965 in Goldsmith's College, Lewisham, Lo
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Besides, perhaps, the Mothers of Invention (with whom they were sometimes compared), the Bonzo Dog Band were the most successful group to combine rock music and comedy. Starting off as the Bonzo Dog Dada Band, then becoming the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and then finally just the Bonzo Dog Band, the group was started by British art college students in the mid-'60s. Initially they were inclined toward trad jazz and vaudevillian routines, but by the time of their 1967 debut album, they were leaning further in pop and rock directions. A brief appearance in the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film bolstered their visibility, and Paul McCartney (under the pseudonym Apollo C. Vermouth) produced their single "I'm the Urban Spaceman," which reached the British Top Five in 1968. The Bonzos really hit their stride with their second and third albums, which found them adding elements of psychedelia to their already-absurdist mix of pop, cabaret, and Dada.
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Release: January 29, 2007
Label: Lightning Tree
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Release: November 6, 2006
Label: Classic Rock Legends Ltd., Ragnarock
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