“You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)†is the silliest recording The Beatles ever made. It is absurd, surreal and owes a huge debt to a comedy team known as The Goons.
To any one born in Britain between 1935 and 1960, The Goons, (Spike Milligan, Michael Bentine, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe), were the defining comic influence for a generation.