Bonzo Dog Band
UK
Formed: 1962
Died: 01 January 1970
Genres: Pop/Rock
Styles: Psychedelic/Garage, Comedy Rock, Pop/Rock, British Psychedelia, Psychedelic, Psychedelic Pop
Besides, perhaps, the Mothers of Invention (with whom they were sometimes compared), the Bonzo Dog Band were the most successful group to combine rock music and comedy. Starting off as the Bonzo Dog Dada Band, then becoming the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, and then finally just the Bonzo Dog Band, the group was started by British art college students in the mid-'60s. Initially they were inclined toward trad jazz and vaudevillian routines, but by the time of their 1967 debut album, they were leaning further in pop and rock directions. A brief appeara...
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