As I said, when we needed to move over to rock’n’roll, Sam and Vernon couldn’t quite make the shift. So that’s when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

But I mean, again, Zappa’s far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

I wasn’t aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.

I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there’s usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

Ladies and gentlemen, Ive suffered for my music ... now its your turn.

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.