Let's Make Up and Be Friendly
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| Studio album by Bonzo Dog Band | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Recorded | November, 1971 | |||
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Comedy rock Psychedelic pop Avant-garde |
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| Length | 50:46 | |||
| Label | United Artists UAS 29288 | |||
| Producer | Neil Innes, Vivian Stanshall | |||
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Let's Make Up And Be Friendly was the fifth and, until 2007, final original album by the Bonzo Dog Band. The group had already disbanded when United Artists Records (which absorbed the Bonzos' label Liberty Records) informed band members that the group owed the label one more album. This farewell album was the result. In 2007 the album was re-issued on CD by EMI with six bonus tracks. Some of these bonus tracks were not performed by the Bonzos, but were actually solo recordings by the members of the group.
"Rawlinson End", the longest track (at 9:07) on any Bonzos album, features the first appearance of Vivian Stanshall's character Sir Henry Rawlinson, whose exploits would later be expanded as a series of BBC Radio 1 sessions for the John Peel show as Rawlinson End Radio Flashes; a Sir Henry at Rawlinson End LP in 1978; and in 1984 a semi-sequel, Sir Henry at N'didi’s Kraal; a film, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980), and accompanying book; and a final cameo appearance in a 1994 commercial for Ruddles Real Ale with Dawn French.
This was their last album of new material featuring all original members until the band's reunion in 2006, by which time Vivian Stanshall was deceased. A new studio album, Pour l'Amour des Chiens (French for For the Love of Dogs), was released in December 2007. The album is today controlled by the Parlophone unit of Warner Music Group.
The album was originally issued in vinyl and in 8-track format.
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