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Neil Innes

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

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"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."
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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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"We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious."
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"I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes."
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"We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success."
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