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Vivian Stanshall (born Victor Anthony Stanshall; 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his exploration of the British upper classes in ''Sir Henry at Rawlinson End'' (as a radio series for John Peel, as an audio recording, as a book and as a film), and for acting as Master of Ceremonies on Mike Oldfield's album ''Tubular Bells''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vivian Stanshall )〕 ==Early life and education== He was born on 21 March 1943 at the Radcliffe Maternity Home in Shillingford, Oxfordshire, and christened Victor Anthony Stanshall. His mother Eileen (née Wadeson) Stanshall lived with her young son while her husband, Victor Stanshall (1909–1990) (he had adopted this given name in preference to his christened name of Vivian), served in the RAF during World War II. Later Vivian Stanshall described this early period as the happiest time of his childhood. When the war ended, his father returned but the young Victor found him difficult and comparatively stern after having been alone with his mother.〔''Vivian Stanshall, the early years, aka ''Crank.'', 1991 BBC Two, 1991〕 The family moved to the father's hometown of Walthamstow, Essex, where Stanshall's younger brother Mark was born six years later in 1949. With six years between them, the brothers were never close.〔''Vivian Stanshall: Essex Teenager to Renaissance Man'' (1994), BBC Radio 4〕 Stanshall studied at Walthamstow College of Art, where he met fellow students Ian Dury and Peter Greenaway.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=73862&back= )〕 About this time, the Stanshall family moved to the Essex coastal town of Leigh-on-Sea. He attended Southend High School for Boys until 1959. As a young man, Victor Stanshall (known as Vic) earned money doing various odd jobs at the Kursaal fun fair in nearby Southend-on-Sea. These included working as a bingo caller and spending the winter painting the fairground attractions. To set aside enough money to get through art school (his father having refused to fund this), Stanshall spent a year in the merchant navy. He said he was a very bad waiter, but became a great teller of tall tales.〔 Stanshall eventually enrolled at the Central School of Art and Design in London. Here, he joined fellow students in forming a band (including Rodney Slater, Roger Ruskin Spear and Neil Innes, who was studying art at Goldsmiths College). Innes said of their first meeting: "We first met in a big Irish pub in South London, the New Cross Arms ... he was quite plump in those days, and he was wearing Billy Bunter check trousers, a Victorian frock coat, black coat tails, horrible little oval, violet-tinted pince-nez glasses, he had a euphonium under his arm, and large rubber false ears. And I thought, well, this is an interesting character."〔Stephen Fry's BBC Radio 4 tribute.〕 About this time, Stanshall changed his first name to "Vivian," the name his father had abandoned. This was not made his legal name until 1977.〔"Interview with Ki Longfellow-Stanshall", ''The Bristolian'', May 1988〕 Those who knew him from his student days continued to call him Vic. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vivian Stanshall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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