
The Alberts – images from their Facebook page
In a 2014 blog, I wrote about the death of Tony Gray, one of The Alberts – the gloriously eccentric British brothers who linked the shambolic opening night of BBC2 to The Goon Show, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Monty Python’s Flying Circus
This afternoon, sadly, I received news from Sheba Gray – Tony’s daughter – that Douglas, the other half of the duo, “passed away last Thursday (18th June), just shy of ninety”…
British Rubbish Revisited, a recent release with recordings from their 1960s shows, can currently be found on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc…
I had the great pleasure of working with Tony and Douglas, plus Tony’s son Sinbad, in Gulliver Travels at the Mermaid theatre in 1969. Each day was a delightful excursion into organised chaos.
R.I.P
Richard O’Brien