| Eric Idle News: |
| Eric Idle was born in South Shields, County Durham on 29th March 1943. When he was two years old, tragedy struck when his father, a serving member of the Royal Air Force, was killed in a car crash on Christmas Eve.
Until he was seven years old, Idles childhood was spent in Oldham and Wallasey. At seven, he was sent to the Royal School, Wolverhampton as a boarder. He would spend the next 12 years there (Idle would later describe it as a Midlands semi-orphanage). Eric proved an intelligent pupil, with a natural flair for English. |
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Eric Idle
vs. National Symphony Orchestra
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8:15 pm
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Wolftrap Farm
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Not the Messiah
vs. Eric Idle
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8:30 pm
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Hollywood Bowl
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Not the Messiah
vs. Eric Idle
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8:30 pm
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Hollywood Bowl
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Not the Messiah
vs. Eric Idle
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8:00 pm
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Mann Music Center
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| More Eric Idle News: |
| After graduating, Idle took to the stage. He toured with the 1965 revue My Girl Herbert before starting cabaret at the Blue Angel in London. From there he moved on to the stage show Oh What a Lovely War!, joining a pretty much all ex-Cambridge cast assembled by Footlights contemporary Richard Eyre. He then went on to do a Christmas season with the farce One for the Pot an experience he didnt enjoy. At the same time Idle was writing for the radio show Im Sorry Ill Read That Again, before being co-opted on to the writing team of The Frost Report to write spontaneous and funny ad-libs for David Frost". This in turn led to him writing for the sitcom No Thats Me Over There a vehicle for Ronnie Corbett. Idle move on to writing for Do Not Adjust Your Set, alongside Michael Palin and Terry Jones. It was whilst working on this that Idle met Terry Gilliam and introduced him to Humphrey Barclay (but if you want the rest of that story, its in Gilliams biography go on, take a look). Then Idle was hooked up with 5 other rather odd people to make a television series |