The urban spaceman has left the Earth.

English performer and songwriter Neil Innes — best known for his collaborations with Monty Python and his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, including their 1968 hit track “I’m the Urban Spaceman” — has died. He was 75.

“It is with deep sorrow and great sadness that we have to announce the death of Neil James Innes on 29 December 2019,” the Innes family said in a statement, the BBC reports, “We have lost a beautiful, kind, gentle soul whose music and songs touched the heart of everyone and whose intellect and search for truth inspired us all.”

Born in England and raised in Germany, Innes had been traveling home from France with his family when he died on Sunday night.

He had been in good health, and his family believes his passing was peaceful, if sudden.

“He died of natural causes quickly without warning and, I think, without pain,” reads their statement.

He leaves behind wife Yvonne, their three sons and three grandchildren, all of whom “give thanks for his life, for his music and for the joy he gave us all,” the statement concludes.

Innes was affectionately known as “The Seventh Python,” for his work with the group, and the nickname was also the title of a 2008 film about his life. As well, he co-created the 1970s rock band The Rutles — which twice performed on “Saturday Night Live,” — penning Doo-Dah Band’s track “Death Cab for Cutie,” and receiving a writing credit for Oasis’ song “Whatever.” Last year, he toured with a Fab Four cover band called The Bootleg Beatles.

Many took to social media to honor the late great performer.

“Punch in the gut to end the decade on,” tweeted stand-up comedian Richard K. Herring, “RIP to the sweetest of idiots.”