Diaries 19691979 The Python Years, Michael Palin
Diaries 19691979 The Python Years, Michael Palin
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Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

Author: Michael Palin

Narrator: Michael Palin

Abridged: 4 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/04/2007

Synopsis

Michael Palin's diaries begin in the late 1960s when he began writing for hugely popular programs. He recounts how Monty Python emerged and triumphed. From the success and cult status brought by Monty Python, Palin shares stories from their world tours, their stay at hotels recently trashed by Led Zeppelin, their battles over censorship, and how individually the Pythons went their separate ways. Yet at the same time they were working on the now celebrated series of films, including The Holy Grail, many of whose lines are known by heart to a considerable portion of the English-speaking world. The birth and childhood of his three children, 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.

About Michael Palin

Michael Palin was born in Sheffield in 1943. He was a founder member of the Monty Python team and has written and performed in numerous successful films and television series, including The Missionary, Time Bandits, A Private Function, A Fish Called Wanda, American Friends and GBH. In addition to the bestselling Around the World in 80 Days and Pole to Pole, he has written a number of books, notably Ripping Yarns with Terry Jones, and several children's books including The Mirrorstone, Small Harry and the Toothache Pills, Limericks and the Cyril stories. His first stage play, The Weekend, was first performed at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford before transferring to the Strand Theatre in London, 1994, with Richard Wilson in the lead role.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Annemarie on September 13, 2020

I always feel a bit weird rating or reviewing a book that deals with personal happenings. After all, I'm not in the position to judge or rate someones life. But I do have to say that I enjoyed my reading experience of this book tremendously! This mostly, I think quite obviously, has to do with the f......more

Goodreads review by F.R. on May 15, 2016

I don’t think it’s a surprise that Michael Palin would be warm, convivial, charming guide to his 1970s in his diaries, but it’s still amazing to find out how warm, convivial and charming guide he actually is. I would be stunned if anyone read these diaries and found that they now hated and despised......more

Goodreads review by Lena on November 23, 2007

I was a big Monty Python fan as a teen-ager, so I was very excited when I learned founding member Michael Palin was publishing the diary he began keeping during the early days of the Monty Python show. The diary, however, is a tricky form in that it is rarely written with the interests of a reader i......more

Goodreads review by Phil on June 22, 2009

Warning. This is not a scintillating tell-all of the Monty Python world...it is something far more entertaining and at times enlightening. Michael Palin (known as the 'nice' python) wrote diaries throughout his life, and he thoughtfully published ten years worth that start with life right before the......more

Goodreads review by Isabel on May 09, 2008

It was extremely interesting to learn how Monty Python formed, planned and carried out their projects. Also, I got to know more about that decade in terms of politics, arts, etc. A must for all Michael Palin and Monty Python fans!......more

Quotes

“Michael Palin is not just one of Britain's foremost comedy character actors, he also talks a lot. Yap, yap, yap he goes, all day long and through the night...then, some nights, when everyone else has gone to bed, he goes home and writes up a diary.” —John Cleese

“Palin's prose is spry and insightful, identifying the true warmth felt for Hemingway in these locales...Any trout-fishing, bull-running, wing-shooting Hemingway fan worth his martini shaker should wind this book fun.” —Library Journal on Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

“Is there anything Michael Palin can't do?” —Washington Post on Hemingway's Chair

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