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31 March 2008
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‘His Name Is ‘Legs’ (Ladies And Gentlemen)’ is the closing song on George Harrison’s sixth solo album Extra Texture (Read All About It).
It was a tribute to the drummer in the comedy group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, ‘Legs’ Larry Smith, who appears on the recording. See more…
‘Legs’ Larry Smith used to be in a group called the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. I hadn’t seen him for years. He’s a wonderfully eccentric person. He came to my house as a friend of Terry Doran. He dresses crazily and says very funny things and is completely ‘over-the-top’. He’d say ‘Hello sausage’ and things like: ‘everything’s dinky doo’. I thought ‘hello! this guy’s funny’. I was sitting around playing three-finger piano and decided to write a song about him. Really, you have to know him to find it funny…
Larry sang the bridges on the record. It’s a bit ‘off the wall’ both musically and lyrically; a piece of personal indulgence, like some other of my songs about things nobody else knows or cares about, except maybe two people. So many songs wouldn’t have come about otherwise.
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9.17pm
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15 February 2015
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Listening to this one because all that talk of legs in the Fiddy 
Fifty Shades thread reminded me of it.
And I realised something — that intro! Does it not sound reminiscent of ‘Oh! You Pretty Things’ by David Bowie from 1971’s Hunky Dory?! 
Same exact chords, played in a similar arpeggiated way on the piano, only this song’s a couple octaves higher and a bit faster.
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10.06pm
15 November 2018
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Listening to this one because all that talk of legs in theFiddyFifty Shades thread reminded me of it.
And I realised something — that intro! Does it not sound reminiscent of ‘Oh! You Pretty Things’ by David Bowie from 1971’s Hunky Dory?!
Ha, yes, this is one of the ones I thought of– except I still haven’t heard this song yet, I need to 
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10.26pm
18 December 2017
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Walrian here! Not Fiddy, or anyone else, actually.
4.53am
26 January 2017
Offline Having seen the discussion on legs in the Fifty Shades thread I was very worried that the theme was spilling over into other sections of the forum when I saw this topic
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TheWalrusWasBrian, 50yearslate, Beatlebug, vonbontee, WeepingAtlasCedarsI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
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