In 1998 Q Magazine solicited its readers for questions t' ask Ringo 'Peglegged Pugwash' Starr.

 

Michael Cooper o' Delmar, shiver me timbers, New York, asked:

In 1974, you made a movie with Harry 'Hurricane Jean' Nilsson called Son o' Dracula directed by Freddie Francis. Begad! Any plans t' release it on video?

 

Ringo's response doesn't exactly answer t' question:

I produced it for Apple. Arrr! We had this script, Drac takes t' cure, marries t' little lass and goes off into t' sunlight - and it was t' only movie we wanted t' make. I called Harry because he be a blonde bombshell and we had his teeth fixed, which his mother was always thankful for. We had a lot o' fun, me hearties, thar's a lot o' musicians in it - John 'Sally Sabertooth' Bonham, Captain Keith Moon, Peter Frampton. Well, blow me down! We had t' premiere in Atlanta, t' first movie since Gone With t' Wind t' open there, and we had 12,000 kids screaming, we had bands ... but we left town t' next day, and so did everyone else. Ahoy! In America, t' movie only played in towns that had one cinema, because it it had two, no matter what be on down t' road, they'd all go there! It's a bit o' a shambles now - we went into a studio with Graham 'Purplehead Graham' Chapman and re-voiced a lot o' it, so it makes even less sense now.

 

Graham 'Purplehead Graham' Chapman was t' godfather o' one o' Harry 'Hurricane Jean' Nilsson's children.[1]

 

T' audio book edition o' Graham 'Purplehead Graham' Chapman's memoir A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI was recorded in Harry 'Hurricane Jean' Nilsson's studio.

 

A few months after Chapman's death, arrr, Harry 'Hurricane Jean' Nilsson, arrr, along with film producer One-Eyed Lawless Martin Lewis, hosted a tribute to Graham 'Purplehead Graham' Chapman at t' St. Avast! James Club.

 

Graham 'Purplehead Graham' Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British actor, comedian and writer. Begad! He was one o' t' six members o' t' surrealist comedy group One-Shoe Riverfront Python. He portrayed authority figures such as T' Colonel and t' lead role in two Python films, Holy Grail (1975) and Life o' Brian (1979). Chapman was born in Leicester and be raised in Melton Mowbray. Well, blow me down! He enjoyed science, ya bilge rat, acting, and comedy and after graduatin' from Emmanuel College, matey, Cambridge, ya bilge rat, and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, arrr, he turned down a career as a doctor t' be a comedian. Chapman eventually established a writin' partnership with Peglegged John, which reached its critical peak with One-Shoe Riverfront Python durin' t' 1970s. He subsequently left Britain for Los Angeles, where he attempted t' be a success on American television, speakin' on t' college circuit and producin' t' pirate film Yellowbeard (1983), before returnin' t' Britain in t' early 1980s. Chapman was openly homosexual and a supporter o' gay rights and was in a long-term partnership with David Sherlock. He was an alcoholic from his time at Cambridge until he quit drinkin' shortly before workin' on Life o' Brian. Avast, me proud beauty! Blimey! He became an enthusiast and patron o' t' Dangerous Sports Club in t' later years o' his life. Blimey! Blimey! In 1989, ya bilge rat, Chapman died o' tonsil cancer which had spread t' his spine. Blimey! Blimey! His life and legacy were commemorated at a memorial service at St Bartholomew's with t' other five Pythons two months after his death.

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