{"id":11134,"date":"2019-12-30T13:28:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T20:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=11134"},"modified":"2019-12-30T15:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:31:44","slug":"rip-neil-innes-music-comedy-genius-of-rutles-monty-python-bonzo-dog-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=11134","title":{"rendered":"RIP:  Neil Innes, music\/comedy genius of Rutles, Monty Python, Bonzo Dog Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/neil_innes_horiz-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/neil_innes_horiz-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/neil_innes_horiz-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/neil_innes_horiz-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/neil_innes_horiz-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/neil_innes_horiz-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/neil_innes_horiz.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Devastated. <\/p>\n<p>One month after receiving handwritten lyrics from Neil Innes, and writing about his misadventures with Pledge Music on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=10989\">my LL blog<\/a>, he passes away.<\/p>\n<p>Very saddened by his passing, but feeling so very grateful that I saw him perform three times &#8211; a Rutles reunion at BeatleFest in Los Angeles, and two solo shows in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>A gracious and talented music\/comedy genius that will be be missed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Neil Innes - Blue Suede Schubert - Innes Book of Records\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nc76XcVUObY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/xVr2hbE6aW0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brexit Song \u201cSomething to Say\u201d by Neil Innes (ex Monty Python)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iy27_QpoYKU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NEIL INNES - PROTEST SONG - Rutland Weekend Television\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qfTlGMCeuDE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devastated. One month after receiving handwritten lyrics from Neil Innes, and writing about his misadventures with Pledge Music on my LL blog, he passes away. Very saddened by his passing, but feeling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,30,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-louie-universe","category-obituaries","category-pop-culture","category-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11134"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11142,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11134\/revisions\/11142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}