1. This husband and wife musical duo recorded two albums by the same name. Though these albums had the same name each had different tracks. However the cover of the record was similar.  Not many people noticed until in an 1980 interview with Playboy, X (the husband) pointed out the difference by effectively stating that in his album he was leaning on his wife and in her album cover she was leaning on to him. Give me the name of this album.  

Cover of the Wife's Album

Cover of the Husband's Album

(Both images courtesy of wikipedia.com)

2.  A Y set is a generic gaming device. The set usually consists of 28 pieces called sometimes as bones, stones, spinners, tiles or cards. Each piece of Y consists of a white rectangular tile with a black line dividing it into two halves. Each half may contain a number of pips or may be blank. What is a set of Y collectively called.

3. (Easy one)  ______ is the butterfat layer skimmed off the top of milk. 

4. George Harrison of the Beatles wrote this song about/for someone :

Who did he write this about?

Hint:
X also had a very illustrious career in a band. A band so famous he said his band was probably more famous the Jesus himself.

and the Stage 2 is?

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Answers to #3 (Stage 2 below this)

Stage 2: Monty Python (DS got it right)

1.  The General was Gen. Montgomery. This is where the "Monty" in Monty Python comes from.
2. The word SPAM originates from the SPAM sketch of Monty Python. And those were the backronyms for the original SPAM(Spiced Ham)

3. Thats Nearly Headless Nick from Harry Potter of course played by John Cleese

4. Thats the symbol for the Python language/software.

P.S. and the title of the blog for the day "..... and now for something completely different" was a dialogue that Monty Python used before chaging sketches/scenes sometimes.

So there ye go...