Monty Python’s Previous Record, which included Eric Idle’s hilarious critique ofAustralianwines, the ‘Fish Licence’ sketch and their philosophical single ‘Eric the Half-a-Bee’, co-written by Idle and John Cleese. Part of their subsequent LP,The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief...
Dennis Wilson, the drummer in the Beach Boys, had an unusual request fulfilled after he drowned in California in 1984, though it necessitated the intervention of the world’s most powerful man. The only true surfer in the ultimate surf band, Wilson had asked to be buried at sea – a rite...