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Thousands of people in London's Trafalgar Square have smashed the
record for the world's largest coconut orchestra.

Original Monty Python Stars Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam led 5,567
members of the public and cast members from the musical "Monty Python's
Spamalot" in a rendition of their classic singalong "Always Look on the
Bright Side of Life" to claim the Guinness World Record title.

The previous record for the largest number of people gathered in one
location playing coconuts at the same time stood at 1789 and was set in
March 2002 in New York, according to Guinness World Records.

The song is a well known tune which featured in the 1979 Monty Python
film "Life of Brian".

Spamalot Musical Director Michael England led a brief practice, before
conducting the thousands of coconut players, who clip-clopped along to
the music over loudspeakers and sang the lyrics, which were projected on
a giant screen behind him.

"It's a technique originated by Britons, so it's only right that we hold the
record," England said on Tuesday.

The record attempt was inspired by the 1975 comedy film "Monty Python
and the Holy Grail" from which Spamalot has been "lovingly ripped off". In
the movie knights pretend to ride horses while porters bang coconut shells
together to make the clip-clopping noise of hooves.

England said the preparations for the attempt pre-occupied the cast in the
days ahead of their Trafalgar Square appearance.

"Everywhere you go you can hear people banging their nuts together," he
said.

Thousands of coconut shells were ordered for the attempt, each
labelled 'left' and 'right'.

On hand to verify the attempt was the editor of Guinness World Records,
Craig Glenday.