“The Pythons always wanted to give good value for money. Certainly on the Holy Grail album they all threw their ideas in to making it quite elaborate. They wanted to make it something funny in its own right", says producer Andre Jacquemin. “There was a real sense that we didn’t want to short change the audience,” adds Michael Palin. “I felt that if someone had paid to see the film at the cinema, when they bought the album there should be much more on it than just the clips from the film. Both Terry (Gilliam, album co-producer) and I felt we wanted the album to be able to stand alone". The memorable moments from the film were there in huge tracts, of course, including the Knights That Say ‘Ni’, the Witch-Burning and the Hand Grenade of Antioch, but they are skilfully stitched into the fabric of the new sketches and there is certainly a continual sense that anything could happen and it probably will. Even the celebrated French Taunter is rudely interrupted as the film slows down and eventually breaks at what was originally the end of side one. Once again, the original side two didn’t really get back to the plot for ages. Instead there are hilarious ‘The story so far…’ recaps of several completely different films. Neil Innes wrote a lot of music for Monty Python and the Holy Grail and his gleefully gory rendition of Brave Sir Robin is included on the album. However, both Arthur’s Song and Run Away Song failed to make the grade of either film or soundtrack and both are included as bonus cuts, sandwiching some brief extracts from ‘The Quest for the Holy Grail Locations’ in which Terry Jones and Michael Palin returned to Doune Castle in Scotland.