Love Cheese & Onion
I just heard 'Ouch' on the radio today.
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.
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 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 wrote one for a laughThe long and winding toad..
Is that about a cane toad you've run over and is stuck on your tyre?