Dudespaper column on Neil Innes (Monty Python) [View All]

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Now, “Neil Innes.” That’s a name most people not into the whole Monty Python thing would know. Known as the Seventh Python, Innes wrote and performed songs with Monty Python’s Flying Circus in the ‘70s (among his many song credits are “Knights of the Round Table/Camelot” in Holy Grail; he was also Sir Robin’s minstrel and the unfortunate serf who was crushed by a giant wooden rabbit).

With his collaborator Eric Idle, Innes also created the Rutles (a Beatles parody band), for which he wrote most of the group’s songs and played the Lennonesque character Ron Nasty. As if all that wasn’t enough, he co-founded the Bonzo Dog Dada Band in the ‘60s with some friends from art school. Later renamed the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, they performed Innes’ song “Death Cab for Cutie” in the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour movie (the song also Innes-pired Ben Gibbard to give his indie rock band the same name).

Not exactly a lightweight. But, despite his 40-year career and his considerable pop culture contributions, Innes isn’t exactly a household name either…which is just fine with him.
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