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| − | This skit from Peter Seller's album parodies rock and roll with an interview with rock singer manager and former horse trader Major Rafe Ralph (a | + | This skit from Peter Seller's album parodies rock and roll with an interview with rock singer manager and former horse trader Major Rafe Ralph (a parody of real English rock manager Larry Parnes). |
| − | Mentioned in the intro are several of Ralph's successes: '''Lenny Bronze, Clint Thigh, | + | Mentioned in the intro are several of Ralph's successes: '''Lenny Bronze, Clint Thigh, Matt Lust,''' '''The Fleshpots''', and '''The Muckrakers'''. |
| − | Interviewer Nancy Lisbon speaks with the Major(a profiteering Svengali) and one of his new up and comers, '''Twit Conway''', an idiot who can't remember which way round the guitar goes. | + | Interviewer Nancy Lisbon (a parody of reporter Nancy Spain) speaks with the Major (a profiteering Svengali) and one of his new up and comers, '''Twit Conway''', an idiot who can't remember which way round the guitar goes. |
| − | + | Peter Sellers does all the voices | |
The skit contains possibly one of the best summing up of most young rock star's lives: | The skit contains possibly one of the best summing up of most young rock star's lives: | ||
"He's just as normal and well balanced as any other 17-year-old ex-plasterer's mate suddenly earning a 1,000 quid a week." | "He's just as normal and well balanced as any other 17-year-old ex-plasterer's mate suddenly earning a 1,000 quid a week." | ||
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| + | ==External Link== | ||
| + | *[http://www.epicure.demon.co.uk/twit.html Full Transcript] | ||
| + | *http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/the-roots-spinal-tap | ||
Revision as of 07:07, 13 May 2011
This skit from Peter Seller's album parodies rock and roll with an interview with rock singer manager and former horse trader Major Rafe Ralph (a parody of real English rock manager Larry Parnes).
Mentioned in the intro are several of Ralph's successes: Lenny Bronze, Clint Thigh, Matt Lust, The Fleshpots, and The Muckrakers.
Interviewer Nancy Lisbon (a parody of reporter Nancy Spain) speaks with the Major (a profiteering Svengali) and one of his new up and comers, Twit Conway, an idiot who can't remember which way round the guitar goes.
Peter Sellers does all the voices
The skit contains possibly one of the best summing up of most young rock star's lives:
"He's just as normal and well balanced as any other 17-year-old ex-plasterer's mate suddenly earning a 1,000 quid a week."
External Link
Pages in category "So Little Time"
The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
