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Title	:	The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall: A Fairytale of Grimm Art
Author	:	Ki Longfellow
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First edition
Pages	:	Pages: 326 pages
Published	:	February 5th 2018 by Eio Books (first published February 2018)
Categories	:	Art. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir

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Twenty three years ago Vivian Stanshall died in a fire, trapped in a north London flat. Drunk, he slept through his own death.

Vivian was the ineffable, unflappable, elegant and irreverently funny frontman and songwriter for the Bonzo Dog Dada Band, a group of art students who’d created a band unlike any other band one could name - and still adored by thousands long after their short time in the sun was knocked on the head by Vivian himself. "We were art students. We were Dada. We were making fun of the worst excesses of rock 'n roll. One day I looked around to discover we'd become what we were parodying."

Written by his wife of 18 years, an artist in her own right, this is a behind-the-scenes, beneath-the-sheets, under the bed tale of an actual genius – few who admired him would disagree. In many ways this is Vivian through his own private words gleaned from his personal journals. It’s also full of up close and revealing portraits of legends: Keith Moon, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, John Peel, Joe Cocker, and so many more. But even more than all that, it’s an ART BOOK: crammed full of Vivian’s paintings, sketches, unpublished family photos, letters and poems.

Vivian Stanshall was the last of the true Bohemians. This is also a tale of Dada, a mad sad glad voyage through life on a grand scale made by one of England’s greatest treasures: the genius who was Vivian Stanshall.

(As Ki writes: all memory is Kurosawa's "Rashomon". These are her memories accompanied by Vivian's actual journals.)

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If it's about Vivian Stanshall, I'm first in line. The man was one of our greatest artists as well as the most versatile. He wrote songs, performed them, composed music, painted, sculpted, performed, made films, oh, it just goes on and on. I am thoroughly thrilled a book is coming, one I'm told is stuffed with illustrations: drawings, paintings, photos. As a big fan of his wife (she wrote this book) it has to be exceptional.

The best voice to come out of Great Britain finally gets a real book? And his missus pens it? I've read her work, all of it. Who said (something like): Lucky is the man who gets a good biographer. Though she says this isn't a biography or a memoir. How intriguing. It's full of the great man's work? Paintings, sketches, etchings. I am atremble. I have all his albums. I still listen to his solo work because his solo work is timeless, especially that prodigious genius displayed throughout the

Ki Longfellow, born on Staten Island, New York, to a French-Irish mother and an Iroquois father, grew up in Hawaii and Marin County, California, but ended up living in France and England for many years. She is the widow of a British national treasure, the complete artist Vivian Stanshall.In England, she created and sailed the Thekla, a 180 foot Baltic Trader, to the port of Bristol where it became

I've actually met both Vivian and Ki. Lucky me. They were in Muswell Hill, a place I seldom visited. Still, my destiny was working well those two times. I've met other heroes but none like Vivian. I melted. Ki, no doubt used to such reactions, was wonderful to me. So when I heard she'd written a book about Vivian I bought it immediately, price no object. How to place financial value against art? Now it's mine and I shall treasure it forever. I've also learned through reading it three times that

Vivian Stanshall was a genius. Not like Stephen Fry who is merely a polymath and a second rate comic, actor and writer, Vivian was the real deal and he found his match in Ki Longfellow he was wise enough to marry. We should all be so lucky. This is a work of combined genius.

This isnt just an excellent read, its a work of art. An emotional rollercoaster where we all know how it ends. There is no doubt this is a labour of love and the loss of Vivian Stanshall to the world cannot be understated. He must never be overlooked, hopefully this work can keep him in the public eye for many years to come. Well done Ki, you (and Vivian) should be very proud.

To begin with, the writing is stunning. Depending on what is being described or discussed, it is poetic, transcendent, informative, funny, enlightening, and deeply understanding of its subject which is of course the genius who was Vivian Stanshall. No wonder he called Longfellow his "translator". It might have taken her too long to understand alcoholism, but it took her no time at all to recognize his brilliance. What she didnt recognize was her own. But Vivian did. She allowed herself to become