Michael Palin "Last Day of World War One", produced for the BBC's "Timewatch" series. Palin was instrumental in setting up the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children in 1993. Also in 1993, each member of Monty Python had an asteroid named after him. Palin's is Asteroid 9621 Michaelpalin. In 2003, inside the Globe a commemorative stone was placed - Palin has his own stone, to mark donors to the theatre, but it is misspelt as "Michael Pallin". The story goes that John Cleese paid for the stone, and mischievously insisted on misspelling his name. In honour of his achievements as a traveller,
Message to Michael for a man". Deacon Blue recorded a version of the song in 1990 for their "Four Bacharach and David Songs" EP. Singer Ricky Ross elected to sing it as "Message to Michael", rather than "Message to Martha". In 2000, contemporary jazz saxophonist Michael Lington covered "Message to Michael" on his album "Vivid." During the 1988 US presidential election, George H. W. Bush cited the song's lyrics in his acceptance speech at the Republican Party National Convention saying: "Someone better take 'a message to Michael'", referring to the Democratic Party's presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. Message to Michael "Message to Michael" is