We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

It comes down to two debates. It's too bad that for the last six or seven weeks, since I became the Democratic nominee, I've been having to debate tens of millions of dollars of radio and television ads and his multimillion-dollar spin machine.

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.