Barry Monks • guitars
Keith Simpkins • saxophone

Written and composed by Barry Monks ©️ 1976

Dedicated to Vivian Stanshall

If you are not aware of Vivian Stanshall, best skip this preamble. I hope you enjoy the music anyway. anyway.

In the mid-1970s, a friend of mine, who lodged at our family home in Finchley, worked in some capacity for Vivian Stanshall, who lived an unsettlingly convenient cycle ride away and would arrive unexpectedly to discuss business with his employee.

My mother, who often had the misfortune to answer the door to these visits once confided, "I don't like it when that man comes round."

We had a small studio in the house and, on one occasion, had just finished a backing track when Mr Stanshall appeared in all his glory. "What's that?" he demanded and insisted on having a copy to which he "would compose lyrics." It is unlikely they ever materialised and we never saw or heard them in any event.

This is a recent recreation of that demo with the wonderful Keith Simpkins on saxophone providing the melody. I wouldn't even attempt lyrics now since they could not match what Vivian might have come up with.

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