Given their age and the recent behaviour of some of their members, it’s doubtful that we’ll ever see the ensemble that made up Monty Python grace a stage together again. Their last run of shows came in 2014, but even then the Python rabble were already missing a key man.
Graham Chapman, who often served as the group’s charismatically daft frontman and took the lead in both Monty Python And The Holy Grail and Monty Python’s Life Of Brian, died in 1989. One of his other roles, though, is a tad more surprising: amongst the actor and comedian’s final performances was the video for the Iron Maiden single Can I Play With Madness, the lead track from the metal giants’ 1988 album Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. It was a surrealist clip that you imagine appealed to the psychedelically inclined humour of the Monty Python man: Chapman played an art teacher who falls down a hole in the ground into a cave and ends up finding himself trapped in a freezer.
