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Beatles forums => Films, TV Shows, Interviews => Topic started by: Jane on July 13, 2008, 09:04:59 PM
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Can anyone tell me what The Rutles really is and what relation it has to The Beatles. Thanks in advance!
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The Rutles was a 1978 TV movie originally titled "All You Need is Cash." It is a spoof documentary of the Beatles' story. It was made by and stars Eric Idle from Monty Python. He plays the narrator/interviewer of the story, as well as one of the Rutles. Neil Innis also plays a Rutle and I think wrote most of the songs.
Not only is the movie funny as f-k, it is thorough in that it leaves no Beatle legend unspoofed. For instance, the John Lennon character causes a scandal when he declares that the Rutles are "Bigger than God." But it turns out he was misquoted -- he said "bigger than Rod" -- Rod Stewart, who wouldn't be famous for several more years. The songs are parodied perfectly too -- "Get Back" is "Get Up and Go Back Home," etc.
Think Monty Python combined with Saturday Night Live with some Spinal Tap elements. Besides Idle, there are numerous cameos -- Michael Palin, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Dan Ackroyd, Mick Jagger plays himself (commenting on the influence of the Rutles), and George Harrison appears in there somewhere as well.
By all means buy/rent/download this movie.
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Oh yeah................great movie!!!! I have it on DVD. I need to watch this again. And George Harrison plays a reporter in the movie...........funny stuff............ ;D
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Wasn't there a second movie? If so, I think I watched it. It was called Can't Buy Me Lunch, or something.
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I loved Belushi's Allen Klein. Genius. And George's cameo was hysterical. I love that film! Wasn't it broadcast on SNL over here originally? That's where I saw it anyway. I loved it when they crossed the Pythons with the original SNL cast. Or Eric Idle anyway. And I think Michael Palin at some point? Nothing was funnier.
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I loved Belushi's Allen Klein. Genius. And George's cameo was hysterical. I love that film! Wasn't it broadcast on SNL over here originally? That's where I saw it anyway. I loved it when they crossed the Pythons with the original SNL cast. Or Eric Idle anyway. And I think Michael Palin at some point? Nothing was funnier.
Sandra,
You have a good memory. It's all detailed in the Rutlemania website:
http://www.rutlemania.org/rutles1.html
(http://www.rutlemania.org/snl_graphics/snleandj.jpg)
(http://www.rutlemania.org/snl_graphics/innes1.jpg)
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Can anyone tell me what The Rutles really is and what relation it has to The Beatles. Thanks in advance!
Check here: http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/m-1205713909/
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Oh, thank you all very much! I have heard of the Rutles and my impression was it was a kind of a band that made a parody of the Beatles, and that`s it, not worth talking about. I am so impressed and interested, especially by your recommendations to see it, which i will do without delay. :)
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"if you want to know about the Beatles, watch the Rutles!" - George Harrison ;D
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I have heard of the Rutles and my impression was it was a kind of a band that made a parody of the Beatles, and that`s it, not worth talking about.
No, Jane. The Rutles are a legend. A living legend. A legend that will live long after other living legends have died.
(http://i44.tinypic.com/2zqs8lj.jpg)
http://www.rutles.org/rmain.html (http://www.rutles.org/rmain.html)
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^^^^^^^I like that picture. Tooooo funny!!!!
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I watch my Rutles dvd slightly more often than my Beatles ones!! The music is just so good, and as George H says, if you want to know about the Beatles, it's all in there!
My fave bit is when they ask the 2 experts about the Rutles, oh and the bit where they talk about tea, oh and all of it.
I like the way that even people who don't know much about the Beatles can roar with laughter!
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No, Jane. The Rutles are a legend. A living legend. A legend that will live long after other living legends have died.
([url]http://home.att.net/~thorobred7/The_Rutles.jpg[/url])
[url]http://www.rutles.org/rmain.html[/url]
It`s so strange, mysterious and unexpected that I am not just interested greatly, I am fascinated, and even more, I am intrigued...
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Wasn't there a second movie? If so, I think I watched it. It was called Can't Buy Me Lunch, or something.
i didnt watch it yet, but i saw that it on youtube. will watch it soon........................
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Cool, I'll have to check it out. I also was under the impression it was like a cover band or something. This sounds like something I would enjoy!
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There was a second film, I have it on the shelf somewhere. But it isn't half as good as the first one.
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I am happy cause I still have to see so many films related to my Favourites!
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i did see the second one & it was just embarrasing to watch. the best stuff was the extra bits they filmed that they didn't show in the first one, but the interviews with people were pretty ridicolous. :-/
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Some info on Can't Buy Me Lunch:
http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/m-1103639791/
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All You Need Is Cash will be rereleased on dvd shortly.
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^Yes! I think I see a movie night in my future.
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They are good... but they didnt win me yet.... :-/
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yep, the All You Need is Cash movie will be released in a 30th Anniversary Edition on
17th Novemeber! here's what it will look like:
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4129WDaCtkL._SS500_.jpg)
and after all these years, it was the trousers! ;D :P
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yep, the All You Need is Cash movie will be released in a 30th Anniversary Edition on
17th Novemeber!
Thanks for the heads up. :)
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The Ruttles! I love them( not as much as the beatles). The parody was funny and not in bad taste at all.And hey George approved so by that alone you should know its really ood. I think my fav Charcter would have to "nasty" haha. Loved it! :P
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I recently found this bootleg LP...
(http://i39.tinypic.com/2u60k8p.jpg)
The Rutles - "Yesterday's Leftovers" (Bootleg) [Full Album] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drpmQnFmiNU#)
The Rutles - "Yesterday's Leftovers" (Bootleg) [Full Album]
01. 00:00 "I Must Be In Love [1]"
02. 02:39 "The Children of Rock and Roll"
03. 03:26 "I Must Be In Love [2]"
04. 05:46 "Cheese and Onions"
05. 07:12 "Shangri-La"
06. 10:35 "Hold My Hand"
07. 13:06 "Brian Thigh Interview"
08. 14:31 "You Need Feet" (Bernard Bresslaw)
09. 15:40 "Dirk's Love Song" (De, De, De, De, De , De)
10. 16:29 "Lullaby"
11. 16:58 "Baby S'il Vous Plait" ("Baby Let Me Be" - French Version)
12. 18:52 "My Little Ukelele"
13. 20:53 "Under My Skin"
14. 24:23 "Rut-a-Lot"
15. 30:18 "I Must Be In Love [3]"
16. 32:36 "Not Letting It Be"
Track Info:
Tracks 1, 2, 3: "The Rutland Weekend Songbook" 1976. "I Must Be in Love"[1] includes intro and fans. "I Must Be in Love"[2] clear mix minus screaming fans.
Tracks 4, 5: Saturday Night Live 1977.
Track 6: "Hold My Hand" with "tuning-up intro" from 1978 "The Rutles" vinyl record. The "tuning-up intro" was cut from the Rhino CD re-issue.
Track 7: Brian Thigh Interview, originally heard on the "All You Need Is Cash" TV special 1978. It was edited for DVD release.
Track 8: From "A Thousand Feet Of Film", originally heard on the "All You Need Is Cash" TV special 1978. Not a Rutles song - 1959's "You Need Feet" was originally recorded and released in England by Bernard Bresslaw.
Track 9: Originally heard on the "All You Need Is Cash" TV special 1978.
Tracks 10, 11, 12 : "Archaeology" 1996 Japan bonus tracks. "Lullaby" is a brief musical gag from Innes. "Baby S'il Vous Plait" was a crude French-language version of an earlier Rutles song "Baby Let Me Be", from the 1978 soundtrack. "My Little Ukelele" is a George Formby-esque novelty number.
Tracks 13, 14: "Archaeology" 2007 reissue bonus tracks. "Under My Skin" is a cover of Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under My Skin" - According to Nasty, "It was taped at the Leicestershire Hunt Ball, where everybody is talking all the way through it." "Rut-A-Lot" is a medley of Rutles songs performed live by Innes.
Track 15: "I Must Be in Love"[3] acoustic/group mix of "Not Letting it Be" with "The Rutland Weekend Songbook"
Track 16: "Not Letting it Be" 2009 BBC radio show with Neil Innes's tales of Rutle-mania.
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I noticed the paper on the cover of my LP was curling up a bit at one corner. When I peeled it off completely, I found this underneath...
(http://i41.tinypic.com/14nipet.jpg)
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^^^
Isn't it great when you find new Rutles material? ;)
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I noticed the paper on the cover of my LP was curling up a bit at one corner. When I peeled it off completely, I found this underneath...
You shouldn't have peeled it off! Now it's worth less!
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You shouldn't have peeled it off! Now it's worth less!
But then how would I know what's underneath?
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Isn't it great when you find new Rutles material? ;)
It's a thrill that will last a lunchtime!
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It's a thrill that will last a lunchtime!
:)
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I noticed the paper on the cover of my LP was curling up a bit at one corner. When I peeled it off completely, I found this underneath...
([url]http://i41.tinypic.com/14nipet.jpg[/url])
That guy looks more like Ringo than Ringo :D
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That guy looks more like Ringo than Ringo :D
Barry Wom (né Barrington Womble)
Today, he's a hairdresser in the Reading area with two fully-equipped salons of his own...
(http://i40.tinypic.com/339plyv.jpg)
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ha2ha
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Barry realized his ambition...
The Rutles All You Need Is Cash: Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rLdwglbMqo#)
3:38
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Interesting that this thread got reactivated recently. I was watching an old SNL the other day with Eric Idle hosting and Neil was on doing 'Cheese And Onions.'
:)
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Interesting that this thread got reactivated recently. I was watching an old SNL the other day with Eric Idle hosting and Neil was on doing 'Cheese And Onions.'
:)
(http://hotoffpress.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/ronnasty.jpg)
The Rutles - Cheese And Onions (Saturday Night Live) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfs8uKsyDHc#ws)
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I noticed the paper on the cover of my LP was curling up a bit at one corner. When I peeled it off completely, I found this underneath...
([url]http://i41.tinypic.com/14nipet.jpg[/url])
ROTFL!!! Brilliant!
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Love Cheese & Onion :D
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I just heard 'Ouch' on the radio today. ha2ha
The Rutles - Ouch! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVFRgoQe86U#)
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Yes, that was from The Rutles' second film which was in color. Their first was in black and white.
Here's Ron Nasty performing Ouch! a few months ago...
The Rutles - Ouch! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdjZz9eUfw#)
28 August 2013
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Love Cheese & Onion :D
The Rutles - Cheese and Onions (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JVK5ill6Ho#)
28 August 2013
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Piggy In The Middle
rutles - piggy in the middle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKezWLZqRik#)
1967
Piggy in the Middle The Rutles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZirFZMw9Wn4#ws)
21 August 2013
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That was a clue at 1:12 in the 1967 video.
Playing it backwards reveals the hidden message...
The Rutles - Piggy In The Middle Backwards (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHa0EViuIEg#)
1:45
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I actually like Archaeology better then the original album.
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Often imitated...
http://youtu.be/-JTy_YkoJi8 (http://youtu.be/-JTy_YkoJi8)
The Fab four
But never equaled...
http://youtu.be/1NHeKX0w_n8 (http://youtu.be/1NHeKX0w_n8)
The Rutles
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I just heard 'Ouch' on the radio today. ha2ha
I can honestly say that I've never heard The Rutles on the radio. But I really hope to some day. ;D
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I bought The Rutles anthology on bluray as I've never seen the full All You Need is Cash.
Loved it of course although I wonder if anyone who wasn't a pretty knowledgeable Beatle fan would find it that funny.
I was disappointed also that the second Can't Buy Me Lunch feature is just an edited, shorter version of the original movie. I'm not sure why they bothered putting it on a second disc and publicising it on the cover as if it were something different to the original.
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I bought The Rutles anthology on bluray as I've never seen the full All You Need is Cash.
Loved it of course although I wonder if anyone who wasn't a pretty knowledgeable Beatle fan would find it that funny.
I was 13 when I saw the film of The Rutles performing "I Must Be in Love" on Saturday Night Live. I got a big kick out of the running gag with Loren Michaels and the $300 but I thought the film was dumb and even blasphemous. It wasn't too common to see old footage of the real thing in those days and that was all I cared about. But when I first came here six years ago and and commenced with my Beatles education I was re-introduced to The Rutles, encouraged to watch "All You Need is Cash" and found it hilarious. A casual fan might find it funny but to really understand why it's brilliant you have to be schooled. :)
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I was 13 when I saw the film of The Rutles performing "I Must Be in Love" on Saturday Night Live. I got a big kick out of the running gag with Loren Michaels and the $300 but I thought the film was dumb and even blasphemous. It wasn't too common to see old footage of the real thing in those days and that was all I cared about. But when I first came here six years ago and and commenced with my Beatles education I was re-introduced to The Rutles, encouraged to watch "All You Need is Cash" and found it hilarious. A casual fan might find it funny but to really understand why it's brilliant you have to be schooled. :)
It is great fun. And some of the songs (the ones that aren't straight rip offs) are clever in their own right. I found Jagger a bit hit and miss though. He sometimes played it straight quite well but other times couldn't stop smiling at the joke.
The experimental Feet film had me in stitches
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I had the soundtrack on my iPod for a while. I never knew, but just read, that poor Neil Innes was sued by Northern Songs for copyright infringement. Warner Brothers wouldn't back him up and he lost a lot of the money he made from the film. It sadly proved the validity of the film's title, I guess.
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It is great fun. And some of the songs (the ones that aren't straight rip offs) are clever in their own right. I found Jagger a bit hit and miss though. He sometimes played it straight quite well but other times couldn't stop smiling at the joke.
The experimental Feet film had me in stitches
I wrote one for a laugh
The long and winding toad..
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I had the soundtrack on my iPod for a while. I never knew, but just read, that poor Neil Innes was sued by Northern Songs for copyright infringement. Warner Brothers wouldn't back him up and he lost a lot of the money he made from the film. It sadly proved the validity of the film's title, I guess.
I heard that John Lennon loved it but thought that "Get Up and Go" was a bit too close to the original (the If I Fell parody is also pretty much a note for note take-off) and that they added Lennon and McCartney to the credits. But most of the others I didn't think were direct lifts. They more captured the mood and style very well. I suppose the music companies want to use all those lawyers for something.
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I wrote one for a laugh
The long and winding toad..
Is that about a cane toad you've run over and is stuck on your tyre?
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Is that about a cane toad you've run over and is stuck on your tyre?
;D
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You know it's good news! The Rutles are together again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amiBTezWKqQ# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amiBTezWKqQ#)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O55koDOrjE0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O55koDOrjE0#)
Well, all except for Dirk McQuickly. Dirk is dead now...miss him...miss him...miss him.