Neil James Innes Born in Danbury, Essex on 9th December, 1944 Married Yvonne Hilton March 5th, 1966 BA in Fine Art from Goldsmith's College School of Art 3 sons, Miles, Luke and Barnaby; one grandchild, Max Still living happily with Yvonne in Suffolk, UK

1964: start of Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 1966: Bonzos turn "professional" 1967: TV series Do Not Adjust Your Set 1968: "I'm The Urban Spaceman" charts; Bonzos tour USA 1970: Bonzos split; form GRIMMS with Scaffold and Liverpool poets 1972: Join Monty Python on albums and tours 1974: Solo album "How Sweet To Be An Idiot" more Monty Python 1975: Rutland Weekend Television with Eric Idle 1976: Monty Python in New York 1977: Saturday Night Live - The Rutles "All You Need Is Cash" 1978: Series 1 "The Innes Book of Records" BBC 2 1979: Series 2 "The Innes Book of Records" 1980: Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl; series 3 "The Innes Book of Records" 1981: Toured one man show 1982: Edinburgh Festival "A Nest of Intervals" Children's TV "The Book Tower"; First of 5 TV series of "Puddle Lane" 1983: Began first of 10 series of "The Raggy Dolls" for YTV 1984: Adapted Terry Jones' "Fairy Tales" (East of the Moon) for C4 1985: "Joe Public" Edinburgh Festival 1986: Music for "Eric The Viking" 1987: Final "Puddle Lane" 1988: More "Raggy Dolls"... 1990: ... and silly TV ads... 1991: Rutles re-released on CD in USA 1992: "More Jam Tomorrow" Arts Theatre London and Edinburgh Festival Publish book - "Gloom, Doom, and Very Funny Money - economics for half-wits" 1993: Final series of "Raggy Dolls"; began adapting "Fungus The Bogeyman" for TV 1994: USA Beatlefests - 'Rutlemania' in LA 1995: More "Fungus" scripts Rutle song for Rory Bremner "Don't Know Why" 1996: New Rutle album "Archeology" Radio 2 series "Tickling the Ivories" 1997: USA Beatlefests; USA Children's Album Developing new Children's TV series 2nd Radio 2 series 1998: Radio 4 development; Presented new 13 part TV series for Anglia and Discovery called "Away With Words" 2000: Recollections #1 released; Innes Own Words tour; opened for Bob Newhart in UK; begin writing new songs 2001; Recollections #2 released; more Innes Own Words tour; some new songs debuted; Japan Tour; Chicago Beatlefest, New York shows with Yo La Tengo; I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue radio shows; The Rutles Unrugged shows 2002; Recollections #3 released; tour of New Zealand; New York Beatlefest, more new songs

When is Innes Book of Records going to come out on DVD? Due to legal hangups at the BBC, only God knows when or if Innes Book of Records will ever come out on DVD. If it ever does, believe me, we will trumpet it from the mountaintops!! What's the deal with Neil and the rights to the Rutle songs? In a nutshell, the publisher of the Beatle songs threatened to sue him claiming copyright infringement on Beatle songs. Neil was advised that although the Rutle songs have completely different words and tunes from any Beatle songs ('Get Up and Go' notwithstanding), it would cost Neil so much to fight it, that he'd be better off just giving them half the rights. So he did. So now, legally, all the Rutle songs are written by "Innes, Lennon & McCartney".... seriously!!! Is Neil ever going to come play in my town? As soon as we find out about any tour anywhere, we put it up on the Live page. He goes where he can when he can, and can't get to all the places he'd like to get to. If you want him to come to your part of the world, the best thing you can do is tell him so on the Guestbook. Or if you're a tour arranger, arrange one! What's all this about a new Rutles t.v. special? We don't know anything about it. It's not a Neil thing, it's an Eric thing, and you can find news about it at Pythonline. If we ever do find out anything definite about it, we'll put it up on Neil News.