Editing Vivian Stanshall (section)

==Marriage and family==
In 1968, Stanshall married fellow art student Monica Peiser, and their son Rupert was born that year. They divorced in 1975.

[[File:Ki_Vivian.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Vivian Stanshall and [[Ki Longfellow|Ki Longfellow-Stanshall]] in the hold of ''[[The Thekla]]'']]

On 9 September 1980, Stanshall married [[Ki Longfellow|Pamela 'Ki' Longfellow]], an American writer who had a daughter from an earlier relationship. The Stanshalls had a daughter, Silky, born on 16 August 1979, before they married; she was named after [[Silky Sullivan]], a racehorse that was a childhood favourite of her mother. Stanshall celebrated Silky's birth in "The Tube", and his marriage to Ki in "Bewilderbeeste", both songs being included on his album ''Teddy Boys Don't Knit''. He later gave his wife the name of 'Ki' from a dream. Even though their comic opera ''Stinkfoot'' was a success in late 1985, Stanshall returned alone to London after the turn of the year, while Longfellow recuperated from an illness brought on by overwork and stress. The Stanshalls lived apart until his sudden death in March 1995.<ref name="Great Lives">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00pcklz |title=Radio 4 Great Lives 22 Dec 2009 |access-date=18 May 2022}}</ref>

Years later, Longfellow wrote ''The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall: A Fairytale of Grimm Art'', detailing Stanshall's life and work from 1977 to 1995.<ref name="Book official website">{{cite web |url=http://www.theillustratedvivianstanshall.com/buy.php/tag/tag/ki-longfellow/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131023323/http://www.theillustratedvivianstanshall.com/buy.php/tag/tag/ki-longfellow/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=31 January 2018 |title=theillustratedvivianstanshall |access-date=11 February 2018}}</ref>