The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief is the fourth album by the comedy group Monty Python, released in 1973. The full title of the album is Free Record Given Away With The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, and the initial pressings were packaged with a real tie and handkerchief and distributed to menswear stores, the concept being that the record was merely a 'free gift' in the manner of plastic dinosaurs with breakfast cereal...
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The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief is the fourth album by the comedy group Monty Python, released in 1973. The full title of the album is Free Record Given Away With The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, and the initial pressings were packaged with a real tie and handkerchief and distributed to menswear stores, the concept being that the record was merely a 'free gift' in the manner of plastic dinosaurs with breakfast cereals. It is also notable for its inner sleeve art, which is visible through a cutaway hole in the album's outer sleeve. It appears to be a simple Terry Gilliam artwork of a tie and handkerchief, but when the inner sleeve is pulled out, it reveals that the tie and handkerchief are actually on a dead man hanging rather graphically from a gallows. Later releases of the album would just have the picture of the clothing on the front cover, and removed the inner sleeve and the unusual hidden artwork.
The album's original LP edition (on Charisma Records...
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