Vivian Stanshall (born Victor Anthony Stanshall, 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995) was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
Stanshall was often called a "great British eccentric", but this was a label he hated: it suggested th...
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- Mar 21, 1943
Date of death:
- Mar 5, 1995 (age 51 years)
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