Among the many blackguards who left their bloodstained mark on history, the foulest of them all was the pirate Yellowbeard. His name struck terror into the hearts of gentlefolk - the same area into which he plunged his dirk - in the days when Queen Anne was a monarch rather than a table. According Graham Chapman, the late comedian-actor-writer-Monty Python, Yellowbeard tells 'the true story of Treasure Island, all the bits that Robert Louis Stevenson didn't want to tell. Yellowbeard is a vile buccaneer so scurrilous that he makes Long John Silver look like a tinhorn. He puts the 'rat' back into pirate'. The idea for Yellowbeard came from one of Graham's closest friends, the late Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, who urged Chapman to attack the pirate genre with his renowned comedic thrust. The results were a novel (Chapman's one and only), and a cult film starring a bodice-ripping cast of comedy actors from the Pythons to Cheech and Chong, via David Bowie. This edition brings together the novel and screenplay for the first time, along with exclusive materials from the Graham Chapman Archives.
For anyone who likes pirates, pythons or beards, here is the ultimate Yellowbeard collection.
- ISBN10 0722123477
- ISBN13 9780722123478
- Publish Date August 1983
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Sphere
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English