I always knew the Rutles would last. It wasn’t just the trousers. It was the whole package. It was obvious to anyone who looked. In 1971, I landed my first job, working for their former publicist, the ...
In 1978, The Beatles’ story was so well-known it inspired a film that spoofed every aspect of it: The Rutles. It features jokes about everything from Yoko Ono to Yellow Submarine to “Get Back.” Part ...
Neil Innes would have liked to see the word ‘rutle’ in the dictionary. “As a verb,” he said, “meaning ‘to copy or emulate someone you admire, especially in music’.” Frank Zappa once posed the question ...
It was 35 years ago today … well, not exactly 35 years, but sometime in 1978 a group called the Rutles created the Beatles satire film, "All You Need is Cash." The mockumentary, which followed the the ...
The original Rutles reunited for the first time! Well, they actually reunited for the movie showing previous to this one. And they probably had to have a meeting to discuss things, perhaps they went ...
Time goes by, as we all know, naturally / People come and people go, naturally. English singer-songwriter Neil Innes wrote these lyrics for “Let’s Be Natural” in 1977 for the debut album by The Rutles ...