Q5 Piano Tune by Spike Milligan

[KILLERSTROP]

I wonder what would happen if you could have put him in a room with Viv Stanshall and Captain Beefheart and got them to work on something. A discordant opera about Rabbit Hutches perhaps?

[Nohjjohnthegreat]

This is probably the scariest thing I have ever listened to

[zxingzxing]

Spike Milligan = Legendary Comedian/ Composer of Poems / Racontuer par Exellance ~ 'Steppin Razor '

[marksims68]

Genius. Absolute genius. I love you spike you nutcase, and your knees...........those caramel knees where the doormice live............and futher up the staircase thigh where Mr and Mrs dissilli-octopus reside, the italian shoemenders. (You see, his madness is now part of me............and i've fallen in the water.............pass me my straightjacket, i'm off to spank the weatherman! BAAAAAAA!!!! (I love Spike btw..........)

[eddyfinkful]

A man walked out of the shadows, he had a military bearing, which he tossed in the air, & caught betwen his teeth! -RIP Spike

[CrusaderBeach]

Genius comic. Genius song. :)

[shoobupshoobup]

Where can I see the lyrics for this?

[Tehrasha]

Must make this into a ringtone.

[lostsoul3050]

Turn the knob on your side ,shout nicky nack ynoo then turn left at your knees.

It'll be under the leg lag.

[wasp27]

@lostsoul3050 But I haven't got a knob on my side...under the Leg Lag? Next to the Lightning Alopecia (from the song of the same name), the teeth of the Red Bladder and the word 'OW'?

[antybuns]

The Real National Anthem.

Spike.Genius.

[wasp27]

@antybuns I'm waiting til they play this in place of the National Anthem at the Last Night of the Proms...Spike will truly have had his revenge then!

[midwichyouthclub]

Quite simply the funniest theme tune to ever appear on tv.GOD BLESS YOU SPIKE!!!!

[MrMarvel323]

Spike sounds like he's in trouble. Don't force it lad, we'll get through this together.

[MrGoblin60]

This makes more sense than the maniacal babbling of the Australian Labor Party/Greens alliance which is currently doing impersonations of a government in Canberra.

[cakemania321]

whats the real name of the tune is it if its not scottish its rubbish i think it is

[eimajecnerwal]

@cakemania321 What??

[wasp27]

@cakemania321 This IS the real name of the tune! And if it wasn't for Spike, Sellers, Secombe at al, we wouldn't have Monty Python, Eddie Izzard or any of the great comedians from the last 40yrs.

[tvmyth1]

Thanks for posting this. The video works perfectly. Brilliant!

[mrwiddywoo]

I think this should be the new UK national anthem!

[throovest]

Pure genius. Greatest theme tune ever

[MichaelKingsfordGray]

Pure Genius!

[redoler]

Great stuff. Reminds me of local councillors with all their blather.

[Dristarg]

Is the first minute meant to be a Rabbie Burns parody?

[Heronjim]

Just brilliant!

[LeeJTurnock]

It's only a matter of time before some modern-day no-hoper uses this absolutely classic tune for their own disgraceful BBC3 or Ch4 series...SADLY...

[richwells1]

I told you I was ill !!!

[diipiividiio]

Hot things expend.

Which is why the days are longer in the summer.

[diipiividiio]

It only happens all the time.

[dantesdivinecomedy23]

Spike. Where is he now.

Oh. There he is.

[soundnicetome]

Always better played in A sharp major! He will always be the best,a true blue raving nutter...Ah thats better...

[mikeonutoob]

There are very few sharp majors around these days. I did bump into a slightly sharp captain recently, but he was mostly blunt around the edges - so no real harm done :)

[anthonythirteen]

I did too, burst me ball as well.

[FSA1990]

I think I might have this played at my funeral. It'll make a change from the usual stuff that you get. Pity that I won't see the look on their faces - assuming anyone turns up...

A truly funny man.

[potstillbill]

@FSA1990 That'd be worth seeing at the procession - imagine trying to walk in time behind the hearse while carrying the coffin... A real Milligan moment.

[eliteghandi94]

i love spike milligan and did you know that he wanted to be buried in a washing machine when he died so that if he was ever dug up in the future he would still stand out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a comical genius

[cockingasnook]

where can I get a download of this?

[eldospinks]

Look under the ning nang nong, shout 'OW!' and look in the fridge.

It should be next to the saxophone.

[baconsandwich2007]

I looked there but the hippo had taken it........again!

[eldospinks]

Failing that, try iTunes.

[darraghtank]

well you could convert this to mp3 by zamzar

[cockingasnook]

is there any surviving q series?

[squibs72]

He wanted to be known as an Irish writer !

[AcidPuppy]

Great tune..

Anyway.. Spike was born in "British" India.. his father was Irish.. mother English.. his choice to choose not to be British.

He was a comedy GENIUS.

[blackybsa]

he fought for this country in ww2 and was then refused citizenship because he was born in india ? lets get things right!

[AcidPuppy]

Indeed.. but I didn't want to bring in the denial of citizenship into Britain as the argument stemming from that could last a long time.

Having served Britain in WW2 he should have been given citizenship without swearing allegiance.

[vicandlinda]

.. but he also took Australian nationality cos him mum lived there and the UK said he wasn't British. Was he an illegal immigrant?

[fatg1t]

Spike called himself a non-national or a floating- national as he never really took ANY of the five nationalities here.

[telboy1966manu]

Spike was a genius in the truest sense of the word and is sadly missed.

[SmartayPartay]

i challenge anybody to watch this and not laugh.  genius.

[kingbleah]

how long does it take to teach goldfish spanish the fish are chineese?.

[brawltime44]

R.I.P Spike Milligan

16/04/1918 - 27/02/2002

[eldospinks]

He told us he was ill.

[ibloodyloveit]

England rules the waves of comedy...

There are some in other nations that i have met who get it, but not enough of em.......RIP Spike

[Rikkyhardo]

Spike would not give his allegience to the Queen ... so he took Irish nationality ... though all his shows were English.

And we do rule the waves of comedy ... look at Mr Bean and Monty Python for two more

[LeeJTurnock]

The day some crap-arsed modern comedians lift this theme to use on their own programme (it has happened...look how Chris Evans pilfered 'Bring Me Sunshine'!) will be the day the world ends.

[Mimm42]

too true. And thats before we get to the pilfering of material. I don't mind recycling/reinventing jokes, as long as you acknowledge where you got it from, but so many "comedians" (phhah, yeah right) just steal stuff and fob it off on kids so they won't know its not original - see dick and dom stealing and murdering several morecambe and wise bits

[eldospinks]

The only way to describe this is:

Kippers.

[emperorsdragon]

my grandmother was born in china that

did'nt make her chinese..... Spikes maternal side was English and he spent most of his life living in that country

[spen55]

Spot on! These idiots claiming that because Spike has Indian/Irish connections that hes the quintessential Irishman - Crap! Everything about Spike s humour is madcap zany eccentric English. He spent his life in England for gods sake.

[potstillbill]

@spen55 I believe there is a touch of Irish lunacy in Spike's work too, but there is no doubt, he is the father of modern British comedy, and an eccentric in the finest English tradition!

[potstillbill]

@Krymzn As am I. What matters more is, Spike was funny.

[iggy2k]

'comedy great, england has the best humour. i agree why is great comedy like this not repeated on the box.'

amazing how the best english humour comes from an irishman born in india. moron.

[buttsyrc8]

Is sad as is a comedy genius!

But we all love and admire him .

Get the War Diaries as are hilarious and also heartbreaking to listen to.

Get Goodbye Soldier and Peace Work as are both superb!

[Andyhinds]

The real reason why this doesn't get repeated is sadly, because most of the old tapes were wiped over and re recorded over to save money. I would love to see whole Q series too, but that's the truth I'm afraid.

[colonellemon]

i wish we could have comedy like this now but anything he did would be thrown away due to "political correctness" that sucks the fun out of everything, stupid politictions

[simonguitarman]

I bet no one knew that it was the beatles producer George Martin who produced this. In fact if you listen you can hear him laughing in the background.

[nseagoon71]

I reckon everyone would have been laughing in the background :)

[lepetamane]

comedy great, england has the best humour. i agree why is great comedy like this not repeated on the box.

[supergav67]

A f**king genius in all departments,radio,Tv,music COMEDY>Surely theres room on soom crappy digital channel to show Q!!

[SimonW]

Hooray !

[moisiemo]

Classic Milligan lunacy!

[CrypticNed]

(This is the full version, unlike the truncated versions running around the Internet. FRED Internet. Anyway, it has the great British gibberish lyrics that those of us who have come to love it have come to love.)

[lilynick1]

Amazing!! He never blinked once! I can remember my mates and I asking each other at school "did you watch Q6 last night?" Then we'd laugh and mimic the show! Onya Spike!

[Fagottron]

Where can we download this?

[p0rtaccio]

The song is available on iTunes.

[happy2oblige]

because he thought people would be confused by Q10 sounding like "cute". Or so they say...

[frglee]

Thanks for posting this...I love it![Dig that crazy rhythm driving me insane!]

The melody has a strange logic but is quite memorable...is that syncopation I hear in it as well? It's actually quite clever if you take the effort to listen to it rather than just dismiss it as rubbish... Wonderful Spike,a true but often misunderstood genius,greatly missed still.

[p0rtaccio]

I wish I could thumb you up more than once. Spike was a brilliant musical talent, people tend to forget that.

[satanmacnuggit]

I've been looking for this for 25 years!

[jwood36]

Totally irreverent and totally brilliant, so sadly missed

[Richieguy141]

This is now my ring tone

[alterfart]

So how do you covert this to a ringtone?

[TomRaymondUK]

The Q series was a mixed bag of banality and humour, but there's no denying that this theme tune is...unique...

[p0rtaccio]

Yeah, those days are sadly gone. When a show would go on air without too much thought.

[anthonythirteen]

@TomRaymondUK Banality? Without this series Monty Python wouldn't have existed.

[Plexigon]

Absolute stupidity... Absolutely fantastic...

[bafr1]

5*****

[nickyw000]

Fantastic !! Love the Q5 Piano Tune.

Remember you are more than welcome to my funeral...Refreshments will be provided :-)

[p0rtaccio]

Just wanted to see my name in yellow, it's my first vid.