Monty Python Sings Monty Python Sings Monty Python Sings is a compilation album of comedy songs by the Monty Python team. Released in 1989 to celebrate their 20th anniversary, it contains popular songs from their previous albums and films. The album contained two previously unreleased tracks; "Oliver Cromwell" (first performed by John Cleese on the 1960s radio series "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again)" was recorded during sessions for "Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album" in 1980 while a studio recording of Terry Gilliam's live standard "I've Got Two Legs" was recorded in 1974 for the Drury Lane shows, where it was to be
Monty Python and influenced many other members of the entertainment community (especially rock musicians) to become involved in political and social issues. Among the many musicians who have publicly attributed their activism—and the organisation of their own benefit events—to the inspiration of the work in this field of Monty Python are U2, Bob Geldof, Pete Townshend, and Sting. The shows are credited by Amnesty with helping the organisation develop public awareness in the US, where one of the spin-off films was a major success. Cleese and Jones had an involvement (as performer, writer or director) in all four Amnesty benefit shows, Palin