Michael Palin. Diaries 1969-1979. The Python Years.

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Weidenfeld And Nicholson
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 650 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. In This First Volume Of His Diaries He Tells How Python Emerged Aand Triumphed. Enjoying An Unikely Cult Status Early On, The Group Then Proceeded To Tour In The United States And Canada, Appearing Like Pop Stars, At Sold Out Stadiums Coast To Coast And On National Chat Shows.

Publishers Description: The amazingly insightful, funny and brilliant record of Michael Palins prime years as a member of the famed comedic group, Monty Python.Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s. This volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys---Jones and Gilliam---and Eric Idle came together and changed the face of British comedy.But this is but only part of Palins story. Here is his growing family, his home in a north London Victorian terrace, which grows as he buys the house next door and then a second at the bottom of the garden; here, too, is his solo effort---as an actor, in Three Men in a Boat, his writing endeavours (often in partnership with Terry Jones) that produces Ripping Yarns and even a pantomime.Meanwhile Monty Python refuses to go away: the hugely successful movies that follow the TV (his account of the making of both The Holy Grail and the Life of Brian movies are page-turners), the at times extraordinary goings-on of the many powerful personalities who coalesced to form the Python team, the fight to prevent an American TV network from bleeping out the best jokes on U.S. transmission, and much more---all this makes for funny and riveting reading.The birth and childhood of his three children, his fathers growing disability, learning to cope as a young man with celebrity, his friendship with George Harrison, and all the trials of a peripatetic life are also essential ingredients of these diaries. A perceptive and funny chronicle, the diaries are a rich portrait of a fascinating period.

ISBN: 9780297844365