The Museum of TV & Radio Festival pays homage Friday to the wickedly funny “The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash,” which is just about to be released on a special-edition DVD. Conceived, written and ...

Two elements led to the creation of The Rutles. In 1975, Eric Idle was spearheading a British television program called Rutland Weekend Television. An image of a staid British reporter running after a ...

Everybody (of a certain age) knows the story – it’s a rock and roll legend. It’s the tale of four lovable cheeky mop­tops from Liverpool who discover their voice in Hamburg, come home to find fame and ...

A series of documentaries that parody the Beatles and the many serious documentaries made about the band and 'Beatlemania'.

“I remember the first time I saw them live. I had nagged my parents to take me to the Rutles’ 1963 Christmas Show. At the Finsbury Park Astoria (later the legendary rock venue The Rainbow) in North ...

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 ...

I watched The Rutles’ film, All You Need is Cash, while eating a sausage biscuit for lunch. It seems I just stumbled upon them at random, although I recall hearing about them during a loose round of ...

Given the depths to which his post-Python career has sunk (An Alan Smithee Film, Splitting Heirs, Dudley Do-Right), it's no surprise that the past few years have found Eric Idle revisiting past ...

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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 ...