Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album

Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album
Studio album by Monty Python
Released	6 October 1980 (UK) 7 October 1980 (US)
Recorded	9 January – 5 May 1980 at Redwood Recording Studios, London
Genre	Comedy
Length	46:23
Label	Charisma (UK) Arista (US)
Producer	Eric Idle Andre Jacquemin
Monty Python chronology
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (1980) Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album is the final studio album by Monty Python, released in 1980. As the title suggests, the album was put together to complete a contract with Charisma Records. Besides newly written songs and sketches, the sessions saw re-recordings of material that dated back to the 1960s pre-Python shows I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, The Frost Report, At Last The 1948 Show and How To Irritate People. One track, "Bells", dates from the sessions for Monty Python's Previous Record, while further material was adapted from Eric Idle's post-Python series Rutland Weekend Television. The group also reworked material written but discarded from early drafts of Life Of Brian, as well as the initial scripts for what would eventually become The Meaning Of Life.