Ginger Geezer

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The paperback edition of Lucian Randall and Chris Welch’s biography of eccentric head honcho of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Vivian Stanshall. Ginger Geezer charts the rise of the band from art school chums who loved trad jazz, to appearing on Top of the Pops with The Urban Spaceman. The Bonzos disbanded in 1969 and Stanshall pursued a solo career, peaking with Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, a radio play, album and then film starring Trevor Howard. The truculent teddy boy still found time to raise merry hell with Keith Moon and take every tranquiliser known to man, which eventually led to his early demise in 1995 by setting his beard on fire.