“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
George Harrison said The Rutles “liberated” him from The Beatles‘ legacy. For most of his solo career, George had to deal with being tied to his famous former band. He grew sick of it fast. However, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Hedgehog is among the many absurdist roles that Monty Python’s Eric Idle, who was unmasked this week on The Masked Singer Season 8’s premiere, was perhaps born to play. “The Hedgehog was perfect ...
It was one of those rare moments when fiction and reality blur and you're no longer sure which is which. The Rutles - a fake band created by Neil Innes and Eric Idle for a comedy sketch forty years ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rutles’ leader Neil Innes, dead at 75, goes deep in one of his final interviews: ‘Mortality is real’
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 ...
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