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Dip My Brain in Joy: A Life With Neil Innes - Yvonne Innes

Dip My Brain in Joy: A Life With Neil Innes

The Official Biography

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2024
Nine Eight Books (Verlag)
978-1-78512-169-2 (ISBN)
CHF 38,40 inkl. MwSt
'A lovely writer and performer. A very sweet man, much too nice for his own good...' - John Cleese

'He wasn't so much the Seventh Python as the First Neil Innes... We were very lucky to have him on board. He was a great writer and he was eccentric and he was clever without being pretentious. And he was the warmest of people to be with... he was a most lovely friend' - Sir Michael Palin

Few individuals have had such an impact on British culture over the past fifty years as the comedy and music icon Neil Innes.

He was the songwriting powerhouse of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band. Beatles muse and collaborator. Injector of art college surrealism into 1960s TV comedy. Instigator of a revolution that led directly to Monty Python, the group he repeatedly joined on screen and stage. He was Ron Nasty, co-founder of the much-loved Rutles, the 'pre-fab four'. Accidental inventor of the phrase 'Cool Britannia'. Much-loved children's TV storyteller, thinker, maker, creator, undisputed national treasure and Britain's sweet idiot laureate.

And through it all, Neil remained one of the kindest and brightest individuals in showbusiness. Musicians, comedians and fans alike loved being around Neil. He created music and joy and art wherever he went. And the person who loved having him round more than anybody else was Yvonne. Neil and Yvonne met at Goldsmiths College in the 1960s and they went on to walk hand-in-hand through life for over fifty years, until Neil's untimely death in 2019.

This book is a heartfelt, eyewitness tale of the life of one of British culture's quiet geniuses. It is tribute to life inside the circus, with the gentlest and wisest of clowns.

Neil Innes was an English musician and comedian. He rose to prominence as the creative genius behind Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and went on to collaborate with Monty Python and co-created the Beatles parody band the Rutles. Yvonne met Neil in the 1960s and the couple married in 1966. They had three sons and were together for over fifty years until Neil's death in 2019.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 240 mm
Gewicht 513 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10 1-78512-169-3 / 1785121693
ISBN-13 978-1-78512-169-2 / 9781785121692
Zustand Neuware
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