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Sweetest of the idiots NEIL INNES 1944-2019

THERE’S a Japanese magazine called Strange Days,” Neil Innes informed Uncut in 2014. “It only covers The Beatles, the Bonzos, Python and The Rutles.” Uniquely, Innes – who died unexpectedly on December 29, aged 75 – can claim to have been a member of three of those outfits and to have close ties to the fourth.

An Essex-born army child– and the band made groundbreaking experimental pop music like 1968's “We Are Normal”, even as they attempted to satirise it.

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