THE FINAL PART OF VIVIAN STANSHALLS SURREAL COMIC MASTERPIECE

In 1978, Charisma Records released the Sir Henry At Rawlinson End album, a forty-minute introduction to the eccentric custodian of the crumbling British country estate, which incorporated characters & music from the various episodes of the Sir Henry saga, originally broadcast on the BBCs John Peel show from October 1975 up until 1991. The BBC regular re-broadcast Sir Henry even today.

In 1980, Sir Henry was also unleashed on the public as a film, starring the great Trevor Howard & was also issued as book published by Eel Pie Publishing, owned at the time by The Whos Pete Townshend.

The 1990s found Sir Henry used as the concept for a now legendary series of Ruddles Beer adverts that cemented Rawlinsons End in the National consciousness.

In the years just before his untimely death in 1995, Vivian intended to generate a new album based around the content of three of the final episodes broadcast by John Peel on the BBC; Crackpot At The End Of The Rainbow recorded in February 1988, The Eating At Rawlinson End, from August 1988 & The Thing At Rawlinson End, from April 1991. For decades it has been rumoured that a new Sir Henry album would be released & now finally Madfish / Snapper Music in collaboration with the Stanshall Family have made that rumour a reality.

Using all the remaining tapes from Vivians archive, Stanshall expert & performance artist Michael Livesley has manged to put back together the intended release, a process that he has described as similar to putting back together a smashed vase. The results are a revelation with the final album now a double LP containing some of Vivians finest work. Fans of Sir Henry, Old Scrotum, Mrs E & the various bizarre & evocative characters that inhabit the musty Rawlinsons End will be thrilled at the imagined adventures that await them.