尼尔·伊尼斯传记《脑泡喜乐中》出版
“有人称他为第七位巨蟒成员，但我更愿意认为他是第一位尼尔·伊尼斯。”——迈克尔·佩林
尼尔·伊尼斯，简而言之，是一位喜剧巨匠。
他漫长的职业生涯诞生了与泰德·雷和肯尼斯·威廉姆斯的合作、与披头士乐队的互动和为鼠头四创作的歌曲。此外，他还是杰出的喜剧乐队邦佐狗的哒哒乐队的成员。他甚至亲自创造了“酷不列颠”这一概念。
他对喜剧界的贡献还不止于此。他与巨蟒剧团有过深度合作，观众经常称他为“第七位巨蟒”。他为巨蟒剧团的热门电影创作了许多歌曲——没错，他还在名曲《总是望向生活的光明面》中表演了那段标志性的口哨声。
然而，因为没有在电视上出演过著名的喜剧角色，伊尼斯在当下的主流媒体中已基本被忽视。在伊尼斯于2019年12月突然去世后，他的遗孀伊冯通过新出版的官方传记《脑泡喜乐中：尼尔·伊尼斯的人生故事》向世人重申他令人敬畏的成就。
这本书庆祝了他们近六十年的婚姻，以及尼尔·伊尼斯所有卓越的喜剧与音乐才华，是“一段真挚的亲历故事，讲述了英国文化中一位默默无闻的天才的生活”，并向“生活在马戏团里的最温柔、最智慧的小丑”致敬。
这本书由九八图书于2024年秋季出版，讲述了二十世纪六十年代喜剧与流行文化革命中的关键人物的幕后故事。这场革命直接催生了《巨蟒剧团之飞翔的马戏团》以及许多其他文化现象。
"Some called him the seventh Python, but I prefer to think of him as the first Neil Innes" - Michael Palin
Neil Innes was, quite simply, a comedy powerhouse.
His long career features credits with Ted Ray and Kenneth Williams, notable interactions with The Beatles, co-creating and composing for The Rutles, and being part of the brilliant comedy outfit The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. He even coined the term "Cool Britannia".
If that weren't enough, his extensive collaborations with the Monty Python troupe led to his regularly being described as "the seventh Python", writing many songs for the group's hit films - and, yes, performing that iconic whistle in Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.
Without a key TV comedy role of his own, however, Innes is today largely overlooked by the mainstream. Following his sudden death in December 2019, Neil's widow, Yvonne, now sets the record straight and shines a light on his wealth of awe-inspiring achievements in new, official biography Dip My Brain In Joy: A Life With Neil Innes.
Celebrating their near-60 year relationship and all of Neil Innes's considerable comic and musical talents, it is "a heartfelt, eyewitness tale of the life of one of British culture's quiet geniuses", paying tribute to "life inside the circus, with the gentlest and wisest of clowns".
Brand new from Nine Eight Books in autumn 2024, the book tells the inside story of a lynchpin of the comedy and popular cultural revolution of the 1960s that led directly to Monty Python's Flying Circus and much else besides.
