{"id":974203,"date":"2019-12-30T08:13:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=931931"},"modified":"2019-12-30T08:13:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:13:23","slug":"neil-innes-monty-python-songwriter-rutles-co-founder-dead-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/neil-innes-monty-python-songwriter-rutles-co-founder-dead-at-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Innes, \u2018Monty Python\u2019 Songwriter, Rutles Co-Founder, Dead at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Neil Innes \u2014 the British comedy songwriter who worked with Monty Python<\/a> and played in the Beatles parody group the Rutles \u2014 died Monday, the BBC<\/a> reports. He was 75.<\/p>\n

Innes\u2019 family confirmed his death in a statement, saying, \u201cWe have lost a beautiful, kind, gentle soul whose music and songs touched the heart of everyone and whose intellect and search for truth inspired us all. He died of natural causes quickly without warning and, I think, without pain. His wife Yvonne and their three sons, Miles, Luke and Barney, and three grandchildren, Max, Issy and Zac, give thanks for his life, for his music and for the joy he gave us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Innes was known as the \u201cseventh Python\u201d for the work he did with the comedy troupe throughout the Seventies. He contributed to several of their albums and was one of just two nonmembers \u2014 along with Douglas Adams \u2014 to write for their acclaimed sketch show, Monty Python\u2019s Flying Circus<\/i>. He also appeared in and wrote music for several Python movies, including \u201cKnights of the Round Table\u201d and \u201cBrave Sir Robin\u201d for 1975\u2019s Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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