I am fairly sure that I saw this live on an episode of KY-TV back in the early 1990s. Angus Deayton was involved with both projects. Can anyone confirm this?
@FredNurk100 Not only was Angus Deayton involved in both projects, so were Philip Pope (the writer/lead singer of the HBGBs) and Michael Fenton Stevens. Many Radio Active sketches were adapted and used on KYTV. This was fairly easy to do because they actually performed them on stage on various tours and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where I saw them. I was never able to get a copy of their 2nd LP though.
Absolute gem...my favourite is Leonard Crowin...I just love the way tha each note he sings gets lower & lower...brilliant! Saw 'em live in Sydney at the Seymour Centre in the late 80's...brilliant then too...
@UKFFF - Listen to it again. There are more "And Friends" than just Neil Dung (Neil Young) and Bob Vylan (Bob Dylan).
The others are The Bland (The Band), Leonard Crowin (Leonard Cohen), George Harrassing (George Harrison), Frank Sumatra (Frank Sinatra), and Dean Martian (Dean Martin).
This song, like the other Hee Bee Gee Bees songs, first appeared as pre-recorded material on the BBC Radio show, "Radio Active". The songs on this album seem to be the same recordings used on the show.
I still remember a listener to the Anne Nightingale Request Show saying USA For Africa's 'We Are The World' sounded like this!
MsBkirk 1 month ago
5:55 gate crashes Status Quid!
dazincalculation 2 months ago
Brilliant!...thanks for coming leonard, george haha -daz in oz
dazincalculation 2 months ago
Just retrieved this having moved house,absolute genius!
SuperShosta 7 months ago
This stuff is STILL genius.
theivd 8 months ago
heebeegeebees should have used their genius for good not evil : )
pjw39 1 year ago
I am fairly sure that I saw this live on an episode of KY-TV back in the early 1990s. Angus Deayton was involved with both projects. Can anyone confirm this?
FredNurk100 1 year ago
@FredNurk100 Not only was Angus Deayton involved in both projects, so were Philip Pope (the writer/lead singer of the HBGBs) and Michael Fenton Stevens. Many Radio Active sketches were adapted and used on KYTV. This was fairly easy to do because they actually performed them on stage on various tours and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where I saw them. I was never able to get a copy of their 2nd LP though.
embrascot 1 year ago
Thank you I have wanted to hear this again for 25 years
themazewithin 1 year ago
Absolute gem...my favourite is Leonard Crowin...I just love the way tha each note he sings gets lower & lower...brilliant! Saw 'em live in Sydney at the Seymour Centre in the late 80's...brilliant then too...
thebeatels 1 year ago 2
best parody band ever, and I've seen a few. I'm sure hoping their genius becomes more widely recognised
snaxalotl 1 year ago
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snaxalotl 1 year ago
As a Canadian, I feel a strange mixture of pride and offense that two of our national icons (Neil Young and Leonard Cohen) are parodied in this song.
OofusTwillip 2 years ago
It's Neil Dung and Bob Vylan (Bob Dylan) not Cohen.
I love Young and Dylan, but this is comedy and is very clever as they sing their own songs in the styles of the artists they are making fun of.
UKFFF 2 years ago
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OofusTwillip 2 years ago
@UKFFF - Listen to it again. There are more "And Friends" than just Neil Dung (Neil Young) and Bob Vylan (Bob Dylan).
The others are The Bland (The Band), Leonard Crowin (Leonard Cohen), George Harrassing (George Harrison), Frank Sumatra (Frank Sinatra), and Dean Martian (Dean Martin).
This song, like the other Hee Bee Gee Bees songs, first appeared as pre-recorded material on the BBC Radio show, "Radio Active". The songs on this album seem to be the same recordings used on the show.
OofusTwillip 2 years ago