Python track banned
Charisma Records has said that it has removed a track from the latest Monty Python record, “Contractual Obligation,” after the American country singer, John Denver; took out an injunction against it. The “Daily Mail” said that Denver had objected to the track entitled. “And now for the sound of John Denver being strangled,” on which he is apparently garrotted to the tune of “Annie’s .Song.” one of his most popular compositions. The track has been replaced with one called, “A short but perverted message,” which Charisma said “will probably result in us all trooping right back into cburt.” — London.
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