Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Galaxy Song" is a Monty Python song written by Eric Idle and John Du Prez. [ 2 ] The song first appeared in the 1983 film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life and was later released on the album Monty Python Sings .
Al Campbell of AllMusic gave the album three and a half out of five stars and wrote that "Unlike most comedy releases, the soundtrack of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is an appealing audio souvenir that doesn't get stale after listening to it a few times." noting that "[this is] because of the incredibly catchy and satirical songs from the ...
The Fairly Incomplete & Rather Badly Illustrated Monty Python Song Book is a compendium of songs by Monty Python, released in 1994 on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. [1] The book contains the lyrics and musical scores for songs from the group's Flying Circus TV series, albums and films.
To celebrate the team's 50th anniversary, a double vinyl album set of Monty Python Sings (Again) was released on 4 October 2019, now including the Stephen Hawking version of "Galaxy Song," first released as a limited edition 7-inch single for Record Store Day on 18 April 2015.
Monty Python's Spamalot: Written by Idle and directed by Mike Nichols, with music and lyrics by John Du Prez and Idle, it starred Hank Azaria, Tim Curry, and David Hyde Pierce; Spamalot is a musical adaptation of the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It ran in Chicago from 21 December 2004 to 23 January 2005, and began performances on ...
It should only contain pages that are Monty Python songs or lists of Monty Python songs, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Monty Python songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
Eric Idle was born on 29 March 1943 in Harton Hospital, in South Shields. [1] His mother, Norah Barron Sanderson, [2] was a nurse, [1] and his father, Ernest Idle, [2] [3] served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, only to be killed in a road accident while hitchhiking home for Christmas in December 1945.
The song was not part of the TV sketch; it first appeared on the Monty Python's 1973 album Matching Tie and Handkerchief as a coda for the album version of the sketch. The song was subsequently included in most of the Monty Python team's live shows, sometimes as a singalong with musical accompaniment provided by a Jew's harp. [2]