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His Name Is 'Legs' (Ladies And Gentlemen)
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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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Listening to this one because all that talk of legs in the Fiddy ahdn_george_06 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?! ahdn_john_08_gif 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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Beatlebug said
Listening to this one because all that talk of legs in the Fiddy ahdn_george_06 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?! ahdn_john_08_gif Same exact chords, played in a similar arpeggiated way on the piano, only this song’s a couple octaves higher and a bit faster.

  

Ha, yes, this is one of the ones I thought of– except I still haven’t heard this song yet, I need to paul-mccartney-facepalm_gif

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I also need to listen to this song… eek.

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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 paul-mccartney-facepalm_gif

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I'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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