Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life: A Sort of Biography by Eric Idle           Audio Book: 8 hours    Hardback Book 304 pages                    

Famed member of the Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Eric Idle regales his fans with tales, lurid, outrageous and obsequious and they are all true happenings in his own life.    What a great book.  So fun and so funny.    One of the Pythons of Monty Pythons Flying Circus, best friend of George Harrison of Beatle fame and quite the musician and singer in his own right/write.     His life would make a great film.  His Dad was a door gunner in the RAF during WWII, who made it through the entire war unscathed only to be taken out by shifting metal on the back of a lorrie (truck)  he caught a ride with while walking and hitchiking on his way back home when he was released from service.  Life went south for a while after that.   His mother put him in a school that had been an orphans’ asylum when he was 7.    She took him there with no word on why they were going there, then, dropped him and left quietly before he noticed she was gone – then it was too late.    He still has nightmares about his time there and he is 75 years old.   He said that is when he learned the value of humor.    If he could make the big blokes and the prefect laugh, they wouldn’t beat him up as bad.   He ran away when he was 19 years old and never looked back only forward.    I don’t want to tell too much because it is such an enjoyable book but, suffice it to say that he went on to be friends with the likes of Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Eric Clapton of course his fellow Pythons John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Gillium and Terry Jones as well as Tom Hanks, Andy Warhol, and all the other elite A listers of Hollywood and New York.    So many good stories and psychedelic 60s on both sides of the Atlantic, adventures galore, it has everything high times, low times, happiness, sorrow, romance, lost romance, finding oneself amid a sea of comedians and musicians.    Seeing a small life and living a big one.    Great stuff here.   I highly recommend this book to everyone, well, it might be a bit over the top for the young, but, for the most part, it teaches you to, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.”      Big applause and a resounding, “Bravo!” and a wave high enough to be a rogue tidal wave.    Well done, Eric Idle