How Sweet to Be an Idiot by Neil Innes on Album Whale

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Seven Songs for the Week #79 - 9th Oct 24

Jason Carty

Still on a Bonzos trip at the minute ahead of the Christmas boxset. This is a lovely, but unsettling, song and I first encountered it over 30 years ago on Monty Python Live At Drury Lane. Skip forward to 1994 and Oasis are debuting their new song, Whatever, on MTV. I'd like to think I was the first person to notice that it had a significant similarity to this song. Where there's a hit, there's a writ, Neil went to court and won a credit for the song. I hope he got a nice pension pot out of it. Neil's widow is about to release a biography of her late husband, Dip My Brain In Joy, and maybe it will shed light on this and other issues.