| rdfs:comment | - Appears in a compilation of celebrities saying "Go Get Those Geckos" in S1/Ep12 Jul 27, 2014
- Richard Branson runs a large company called Virgin from the UK. Their activities involve clean-up operations, which he oversees personally. His intentions are genuine, but he doesn't object to a little publicity along the way, either. He's smart enough to know that you don't get sharks in the Thames, though Jawbreaker disagreed.
- Richard Branson is the owner of Virgin.
- With Peter's success in employing bikini models to work at the Peter's Wife's Cookies store in "Baking Bad", he reassures Lois that they'll have more money than Richard Branson. In a cutaway gag, Richard is shown using his money to build a flying amphibious submarine. Richard Branson is voiced by John Viener.
- In an exclusive interview given to digital arts service The Space in 2012, Sir Richard Branson admitted that were it not for John Peel's decision to play Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells on his BBC Radio One show Top Gear, the album would not have been a global smash and the rest of the Virgin empire would never have happened.[1] "John Peel played music he loved. If he hadn’t played Tubular Bells, @Virgin would not exist."[3]
- Around two thousand and five years ago, in a small and rather quaint Middle Eastern town, a young virgin lay on her back in tremendous pain, on the floor of a tool shed behind a hotel. Surrounded by cattle, she went into labour as the sun descended beneath the distant horizon. It was a night which would see the birth of a man destined to change the face of humanity, forever. Richard Branson is mentioned in many different sources as inventor of magnetic audio cassette, but it is more likely that he invented the Branston's potatoe.
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| abstract | - Appears in a compilation of celebrities saying "Go Get Those Geckos" in S1/Ep12 Jul 27, 2014
- Richard Branson runs a large company called Virgin from the UK. Their activities involve clean-up operations, which he oversees personally. His intentions are genuine, but he doesn't object to a little publicity along the way, either. He's smart enough to know that you don't get sharks in the Thames, though Jawbreaker disagreed.
- Around two thousand and five years ago, in a small and rather quaint Middle Eastern town, a young virgin lay on her back in tremendous pain, on the floor of a tool shed behind a hotel. Surrounded by cattle, she went into labour as the sun descended beneath the distant horizon. It was a night which would see the birth of a man destined to change the face of humanity, forever. Abandoned by her disgusted husband, who refused to believe that she hadn’t slept with another man after she revealed her pregnancy, the virgin tossed and turned for hours as she struggled to understand the child she held in her arms. How had she given birth to a bearded pullover wearing baby, when she hadn’t even consummated her marriage, let alone slept with another man. Her forbidden rendezvous with a goat earlier in the year, languished in her subconscious. The virgin wept in her own self pity until suddenly, the shed was filled with light a thousand times brighter than the brightest star, and a man with more than a passing resemblance to Christopher Walken leapt through the window, with shredded paper taped to his flapping arms pretending to be an angel. He took her by the shoulders and shook her violently, screaming at her, “ARE YOU MAD?! ARE YOU?!” until he finally released her and kicked her to the ground. As she lay stunned, the angel explained the truth of her child to her, he told her it was half man, half goat and that in two thousand years, a video recording he had made of the conception would be available on a world wide network known as the intarweb. She refused to accept it, she couldn’t, wouldn’t believe it and so she killed herself, but not before bestowing a name upon her son- Richard Virgin Branson, so that he'd never forget what she was when he was born. Richard Branson is mentioned in many different sources as inventor of magnetic audio cassette, but it is more likely that he invented the Branston's potatoe.
- Richard Branson is the owner of Virgin.
- With Peter's success in employing bikini models to work at the Peter's Wife's Cookies store in "Baking Bad", he reassures Lois that they'll have more money than Richard Branson. In a cutaway gag, Richard is shown using his money to build a flying amphibious submarine. Richard Branson is voiced by John Viener.
- In an exclusive interview given to digital arts service The Space in 2012, Sir Richard Branson admitted that were it not for John Peel's decision to play Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells on his BBC Radio One show Top Gear, the album would not have been a global smash and the rest of the Virgin empire would never have happened.[1] Branson had invited John Peel to dinner to listen to the recording and would recall that 'He said it was one of the most important albums he'd ever heard'. Peel subsequently treated BBC Radio One audiences to side one of the LP on his programme[2] (legend has it that he played the album in its entirety, but there has been no evidence from playlists that he did that). At the time, the DJ described Tubular Bells as 'certainly one of the most impressive LPs I've ever had the chance to play on the radio, really a remarkable record' and dubbed it 'an incredible start' for the fledgling Virgin Records label. After the success of Mike Oldfield, Virgin signed such controversial bands as the Sex Pistols (one of Peel's favourites at that time), which other companies were reluctant to sign. It also won praise for exposing the public to such obscure avant-garde music as Faust, Can and Tangerine Dream who were also regularly played by Peel. Peel in the 80s tried to get the BBC and Virgin to release the Peel Sessions, but neither the BBC nor Richard Branson were interested. In the end, Peel's business partner Clive Selwood took the initiative and released the sessions on the independent Strange Fruit label. Nonetheless in the 90s, Branson paid respect to Peel on This Is Your Life, and after Peel's death, Branson's Twitter account declared: "John Peel played music he loved. If he hadn’t played Tubular Bells, @Virgin would not exist."[3]
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