Beyond the Fringe of musical items in the show, using Dudley Moore's music, most famously an arrangement of the Colonel Bogey March which resists Moore's repeated attempts to bring it to an end. The show prefigured the Satire Boom of the 1960s. Without it, there might not have been either "That Was the Week That Was" or "Private Eye", the satirical magazine which originated at the same time, that partially survived due to financial support from Peter Cook, and that served as the model for the later American "Spy Magazine". Cook and Moore formed a comedy team and appeared in the popular television
The Scrap Iron Rhythm Revue distribution deal with the two latter labels. The single was followed by 1971's "Smokey Mountain Rhythm Revue", whose tongue-in-cheek instrumental B-side, "Rampant on the Rage," inspired the creation of a side-project band named Lieutenant Pigeon, who had the same line-up as Stavely Makepeace but with the addition of Woodward's mother Hilda on piano. This single was in turn followed by "Give Me That Pistol" later on in 1971. Despite Woodward and Fletcher being so productive in the early 1970s that they would write at least a song a week for the Stavely Makepeace project, none of Stavely Makepeace's singles had