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troupe, released in both the UK and US in 1970, with the US version featuring a back cover slightly different from the original UK version. It features newly recorded versions of sketches from the first
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In 2011, AudioGO Ltd. released a "Facsimile Edition," which is the only audiobook version with the original LP's artwork. Graham Chapman's name is spelled correctly on the cover of this edition.
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was not included as a member of Python on the album's cast listing (in spite of his brief appearance in the sketch "The Visitors") and
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The album has been available on CD as an audiobook since 1996. (It was first released as an audiobook in 1994 on cassette.)
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Next to the television show itself, the album was the first piece of media the Pythons released. It is noted that
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In June 2014, the album was included as bonus content with the expanded re-release of '
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The album was recorded on a single day, 2 May 1970, in front of a live audience at the
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A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
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would later claim "they were a particularly dead audience."
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Live album
Monty Python
Genre
Comedy
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BBC
Pye
Producer
Ian MacNaughton
Monty Python
Another Monty Python Record
Monty Python
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Terry Gilliam
Graham Chapman
Camden Theatre
Eric Idle
copyright
BBC
AllMusic
Fawlty Towers
Monty Python Sings (again)
Trade Description Act
Nudge Nudge
The Mouse Problem
The Barber
More Television Interviews
The Cinema
Pet Shop

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