Agent confirms death of comedian-songwriter who co-founded the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and wrote for Monty Python
Neil Innes, the comedian and songwriter known for spoof Beatles band the Rutles as well as his work with Monty Python, has died aged 75, according to his agent.
Born in 1944 and raised in
Germany and the
UK, he studied drama at Goldsmiths college, where he formed the absurdist pop group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. They scored a Top 5 hit with I’m the Urban Spaceman in 1968, produced pseudonymously by Paul McCartney – it won Innes an Ivor Novello songwriting award.