‘It’s a piss-take of Agadoo by Black Lace, one of those mindless summer hits. Someone said “Hold a chicken in the air” and I went “Stick a deckchair up your nose”. We finished it in four minutes’
Philip Pope, music
I was in parody band the Hee Bee Gee Bees with Angus Deayton and Michael Fenton Stevens. Our first single,– written with Richard Curtis – got to No 2 in Australia. We joked that we were big down under. John Lloyd was producing Not the Nine O’Clock News and asked if he could use our songs, but we wanted to keep them for ourselves.
We did political songs like One Bad Apple about police corruption, Dawn of a New Age about water privatisation and Walk on By about homelessness. We also did pop parodies.was a parody of We Are the World. We did ZZ Top singing We’ve Got Beards, Bob Dylan protesting about cheese, and Paul McCartney turning everything into a song: “The fish fingers are nearly ready / Dinner’s on the table.” I wrote the music and did most of the impersonations.
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