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The band began life in the mid-eighties on the streets of Covent Garden,
London as a busking band. The line-up changed frequently as various musicians
came and went as you'd expect in busking circumstances.
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Rodney: Yeah, there was an interesting article in the paper the other day. Did you know
that Taiwan is the only country in the world that don't have any rubbish dumps; they just send it all to him (Del).
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Del: Men went away in the war and fought and
died for this!
GRANDAD: I know - I almost did!
DEL: You almost died?
GRANDAD: No. I almost went away and fought for it!
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That's beautiful innit, eh? That's raise de chassie as
they say in Dieppe. Now be honest, have you ever seen a Christmas tree like that before? No of
course you haven't, and I'll tell you the reason why. Because this is not an ordinary Christmas
tree. This is a new advanced microchip Christmas tree as advertised on Tomorrows World.
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Whilst sat at home one Sunday
night he switched on the TV and began watching a repeat of Open all Hours,
starring Ronnie Barker as Arkright, the stuttering northern shopkeeper, and David Jason,
as his delivery-boy nephew Granville.
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"We didn't
want him to feel like an outsider and he responded to that. It was potentially very dangerous
to bring someone new in like that but, bless him, he rose to the occassion. He made the
character his own quite brilliantly."
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