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The Bonzo Dog Band made its name having one of its singles produced by Paul McCartney. Later on one of its most important members - Neil Innes joined up with Eric Idle from "Monty Python" and they did the Beatles mockumentary "The Rutles". On this record you can see one great example of combining music and comedy (much more than on the Rutles album which was more about the music and less about the comedy). The opening track "Hunting tigers out in Africa" is my favourite, yet the hit single "I`m the urban spaceman" ain`t no worse as a matter of fact - with it`s uplifting melody the spaceman song sounds like an outtake from a Beatles recording session. The best way to describe this is to imagine that this band consisted of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Idle and, say, Michael Palin. The missing link between the Beatles and "Monty Python`s flying Circus" has at last been found, and it does a groovy song about "Ali Baba" that sounds just as if it came from a Soviet comedy, weird as it is. High art it ain`t, pretentious it ain`t, it`s just your fun record.