Long-lost final album from late national treasure.
Vivian Stanshall has been dead for 28 years but he’s having a fine 2023 so far. In March, members of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles and The Mekons marked what would have been his 80th birthday at’ 50th anniversary – Stanshall played the part of the MC on that album and inadvertently gave it its title when he intoned the titular words in his famously fruity delivery – a moment that clearly chimed with Mike Oldfield. And – perhaps his finest creation – returns for a final instalment on a double LP, released in tandem with arguably something even more special still: , the great lost Viv Stanshall album that many assumed would never surface.
