Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

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Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.