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The Rutles
The Rutles in All You Need Is Cash. From left: Eric Idle, Ricky Fataar, John Halsey, Neil Innes.
Background information
Origin
Rutland, England
Genres
Rock, parody, comedy rock, rock and roll
Years active
1975–1978, 1996–1997, 2002–2019
Labels
Warner Bros., Rhino, Virgin
Past members
John Halsey
Ken Thornton
Phil Jackson
David Catlin-Birch
Neil Innes
Eric Idle
Ricky Fataar
Ollie Halsall
David Battley
Malcolm Foster
Doug Boyle
Mickey Simmonds
Mark Griffiths
Billy Bremner
Andy Brown
Roger Rettig
Brian Hodgson
J. J. Jones
Jay Goodrich
Website
www.rutles.org
The Rutles (/ˈrʌtəlz/) were a rock band that performed visual and aural pastiches and parodies of the Beatles. This originally fictional band, created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for a sketch in Idle's mid-1970s BBC television comedy series Rutland Weekend Television, later toured and recorded, releasing two studio albums and garnering two UK chart hits.[which?] The band toured again from 2002 until Innes' death in 2019.
Encouraged by the positive public reaction to the sketch, Idle wrote the mockumentary television film All You Need Is Cash (1978, a.k.a. The Rutles). Idle co-directed the film with Gary Weis; it features 20 Beatles' music pastiches written by Innes, which he performed with three musicians as the Rutles. A soundtrack album in 1978 was followed in 1996 by Archaeology, which spoofed the then-recent Beatles Anthology series. A second film, The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch (modelled on the 2000 TV special The Beatles Revolution) was made in 2002 and released in the US on DVD in 2003.
TheRutles (/ˈrʌtəlz/) were a rock band that performed visual and aural pastiches and parodies of the Beatles. This originally fictional band, created...
known as TheRutles) is a 1978 television film that traces (in mockumentary style) the career of a fictitious English rock group called theRutles. As TV...
actor in TheRutles: All You Need Is Cash, a spoof on the Beatles, in which he performed as a member of theRutles. He was also a member of the Beach Boys...
Secrets of a Superstud (1976) – The Lady Queen Kong (1977) – HM The Queen (uncredited) All You Need Is Cash (or TheRutles) (1978) – A Queen of England National...
series and films, and is often called the "seventh Python" along with performer Carol Cleveland. He co-created theRutles, a Beatles parody/pastiche project...
November 2007. Original Rutles reunite for 30th anniversary, Vol 3 Issue 1, 3 March 2008, Rutles News "Rutlemania". Archived from the original on 1 April...
They are regarded as the most influential band of all time and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular...
for TheRutles' latest album ("Finchley Road"), a single ("Ticket To Rut"), and an assortment of Rutles merchandise. The book also contains the "Vatican...
Archived from the original on 21 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019. "TheRutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch". Variety. 6 March 2005. Archived from the original...
character in the 1977 Woody Allen feature film Annie Hall, and made a cameo appearance in the movie TheRutles: All You Need Is Cash the following year...
in the British comedy film TheRutles in 1978. She was married to South African musician Ricky Fataar (a member of The Flames, TheRutles, and the Beach...
Sherman "A Letter to the Beatles" - The Four Preps "The Beetle" - Gary Usher "TheRutles - the Lean Years - Part 3". "TheRutles - Rhino Records Beatlesongs...
international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular...
Rutles projects, the results being Innes' critically acclaimed Rutles "reunion" album TheRutles: Archaeology and Idle's straight-to-DVD TheRutles 2:...
Dinner". Creem. Rodriguez 2010, p. 308. Idle, Eric (1978). "TheRutles Story". TheRutles (LP booklet). Warner Bros. Records. p. 16. Clayson 2003, p. 228...
released November 6, 2004. The book catalogs such better-known fake bands as Spinal Tap, The Blues Brothers, TheRutles, and The Chipmunks, along with dozens...
by Harrison of theRutles' satirical approach to the Beatles' legacy, in this case by "de-mythologizing" rock history. Inspired by the Traveling Wilburys'...
as The Song Remains the Same (1976) and The Last Waltz (1978), and follows the similar All You Need Is Cash (1978) by theRutles. Most of its dialogue...
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films, including The Deadly Bees (1967), The Wild Life (1984) and 9½ Weeks (1986), as well as on television programs including TheRutles: All You Need Is...
an American comedian, actor, and musician. He was one of the seven original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). Throughout...
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