‘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’
I was in parody band the Hee Bee Gee Bees with Angus Deayton and Michael Fenton Stevens. Our first single, Meaningless Songs (In Very High Voices) – 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. Then when John started Spitting Image, he said: “How do you feel about being musical director?”
