That first Rutles album is legitimately great. Not as a parody or pastiche, or anything, but on its own, it's a truly marvelous collection of songs. The second one is good too.
I was a freshman here at the University of Cincinnati. We had a little room that would show videos on 3/4 inch tape. And I saw this and I saw it again and again and again. It played for a week, I think.
Some real classics - I Must Be in Love, Barry Wom's Living in Hope and Cheese and Onion with the epic last note. And yes, Archaelogy is good too - Shangri -la is a standout homage to Hey Jude
You're right. I actually saw The Rutles (minus Eric) live in London, they were a proper tight band and the songs really stood up. I was privileged to shake the hand of the great Barrington Womble. I washed the hand immediately, mine not Barry's.
@@10MinuteGuitarJams i also met him when he did a couple of gigs up at a very small venue here in Chester.First as The Rutles.Next by himself. Great memories.
I watched All You Need is Cash when it first aired, I've watched it dozens of times since, and I own it on DVD. I still crack up every time I watch it. The music, the jokes, and the attention to detail are amazing, considering that the film was produced in a short time and on a low budget. The combination of talents that went into this film are like almost nothing else that existed before or since.
Television? In Australia, we had to pay at the cinema to watch this, and we did. I must have seen this movie more than ten times at the Capri Theater in Adelaide. Worth every cent.
I saw it when it aired on NBC and thought it was very funny even though I didn't know much about the Beatles at the time. On Monday I asked my friends about it and not one of them had seen it.
I remember when the album came out. We were blown away by the music and how clever it all was. Years later I was lucky enough to get a package in the post from Neil. Hand written lyrics to Piggy In The Middle. 4 months later he was gone. May he rest in peace.
I agree - I wrote to him a few years ago to ask for a signed photo for my Dad's birthday and he obliged and also did one for me too. Lovely guy, fantastic talent + super modest!
I was in high school when "All You Need Is Cash" came out. I watched it when it aired and bought the album right away. I still have it. My favorite Rutles song is "Piggy in the Middle".
Ringo did in fact have a desire to be a hairdresser and own a string of shops. I grew up on BBC Radio Beatle specials and we distinctly remember Ringo saying that.
I remember saeeing the short film on SNL when Eric Idle hosted. I've been a huge Beatles fan my whole life and I thought it was brilliant. Then a year or two later my sister (also a lifelong Beatles fan) and I were watching TV one night and this movie came on. We both absolutely loved it. Never heard about it again for many years. I was visiting my sister in Calidornia about 20 years later. We decided to watch a movie one night and we talked about The Rutles, but figured there was no way the video store would have the movie. Lo and behold, they did! We watched it again and loved every second of it. It's nice to see that it has it's own 'cult', and that we have all this kind of thing that we can see out here on UA-cam. Neil did an amazing job with all those songs, personally that's my favorite part of the whole movie. Lots of great lines and acting too, and all the cameos from the SNL folks and Paul Simon and George and MIck were all great. Thanks, Eric and Neil! One of my favorite movies ever.
I loved it when it came out and always thought the songwriting was masterful, all the camera angles and spoofs on every photo shoot and press conference, just brilliant.
I went out with a girl who was an Innes, it turned she was his niece, her brother looks just like Neil. She told me a lovely story about being at his place one time, her and her twin sister were 15 at the time. Neil had run out of weed but the sisters had some but couldn't say anything because their mum was there and would disapprove. So they got Neil and told him, so he took them for a look around the garden and they had a smoke and he took them into his studio. He asked them to listen to a new tune he had written, she said it was a beautiful, moving piece of work and they both were in tears at the end of it.
We were all astounded when Rutles showed up because we’re all Beatles fans since approximately the beginning And to do a Mockumentary of them was astounding
I met and spoke to Neil at a real ale festival back in the late 90's where he was presenting a bit on it for a regional l tv show and asked him if we'll ever hear from the Rutles again and his answer was 'probably not as 'they' would'nt let us do it'!Lovely fella and wish i'd have got his autograph but i was so star struck i forgot to ask
I watched SNL live that night when Lorne first announced that he had gotten the Rutles film. My buddy and I laughed our heads off. When the movie came out on TV we thought it was brilliant! Love the Rutles!
As an comedy epicurean, Neil was woven into the fabric of non-traditional television in my growing years. We took so much for granted, as he always had so many tricks up his sleeve to capture the zeitgeist of his topic and mould his lyrics into a novel song. Thoroughly enjoyed the spoofery of The Rutles and also his solo series, “Innes Book of Records”. Wherein he applied his accomplished pathos and musical expertise, treating us to his own fascinating brand of rock’n’roll.
I saw Neil and the Rutles play the Troubador in LA back in the mid 90s. Neil wore the Lennon green military clothes and the rest if the band had traditional 1964 suits.
I loved it from the first time I saw it. Eric and Neil’s contributions were great. But so many cameos by so many made this little film. Love the music too. 😂
I saw this in the mid 80s first time and I've watched it at least a dozen times after that but I never knew there was so much improvisation. Thank you for uploading.
Fabulous! I had the Rutles film on VHS (later on dvd, slightly longer). My brother bought the LP in 1978 or so. I was a massive Beatles fan starting around 77/78. He gave me the LP and I was well away. I'm going to watch this again in the next few days. Really enjoyed this, cheers.
I'm a musician who loves the Beatles and I saw The Rutles All You Need Is Cash on TV in the seventies and absolutely loved it!,I loved it so much I even went out and bought the album,God bless the band that started it all the Rutles! Bob
They did the whole film for $250,000? Incredible, I mean, so many sets, costumes, wigs, extras, etc. I don’t know if that includes the music production, but even if it didn’t, that is extraordinarily efficient. I saw the special the first time it aired on American TV. I think not long before that, I saw “The Compleat Beatles” documentary, and “All you need is cash” just checked off scene after scene.
Thank you so much for presenting this documentary. The Rutles -the acting and the songs- were very convincing. I believe that "Cheese and onions" was once believed it to be a John Lennon's song. Peaceandlove.
Spinal Tap is in a similar vein. You have to know hard rock history in order to fully appreciate the humor. But I suppose that The Rutles movie in a way paved the way for Spinal Tap
"It wasn't the first of a series, it was just something that happened at that time." Oh, those wonderful days before Hollywood would have insisted on building the Rutles Cinematic Universe.
Some of The Rutles tracks appeared on bootleg albums by The Beatles...that shows what a good job Neil Innes did on The Rutles album / film to get piss takes were the real thing!
The Rutles song I remember on a Beatles bootleg was Cheese and Onions. My friend who had the bootleg was a Beatles fanatic and hadn't seen the Rutles show and didn't know it wasn't the Beatles until I broke it to him. He angrily didn't believe me. He didn't think anyone could copy the Beatles so convincingly!
I have a vinyl copy of a Beatles bootleg called "Indian Rope Trick" with "Cheese and Onions" on it. Of course I already knew it was The Rutles. There is also a track on it called "Not Guilty" which is not the George Harrison version by The Beatles but instead it is actually a tune called "Frenzy and Distortion" by Ravi Shankar. The rest of the tracks on it besides The Rutles one are really The Beatles though.
@@CaptainGanja the bootleg track of Cheese and Onions is neighhter the film nor the album version. It's Neil in a TV show (I think it was SNL). This was before All You Need Is Cash was released.
@@KatsuRutles Thanks to you for being one of the few people who are still interested in or know the rutles and upload this type of videos, I hope one day to collaborate!
They say that almost nobody saw "All You Need Is Cash" when it first aired on NBC in 1978, but I watched it. I loved it then, and I love it even more now.
I watched it with my sister. We're both lifelong Beatles nuts and absolutely loved it. I would have been 18 at the time, she would have been 16. We found it in a video store about 20 years later and were able to watch it again, that was so much fun. We couldn't believe the video store had it, we had never heard hide nor hair of it since that day in 1978. Over the years we'd bring it up now and then and figured we'd never see it again.
One of my favourite mockumentarys, ever. I know the sound track album by heart. So I sang along during this excellent documentary😀 I was also pleasantly surprised, a few years ago, to find a lot of "new" Rutles songs available. Check out Archaeology , if you're a fan.
The All You Need is Cash film was a shot for shot parody of a documentary called The Compleat Beatles. Watching that beforehand makes AYNIC twice as funny.
if there hadn't been a rutles,would there have been a spinal tap? rob reiner gets a lot of praise for his "mockumentary", but really "all you need is cash" started it all.
Before there was Spinal Tap, there was The Rutles. People tend to forget that. I think I was 12 when I watched The Rutles when it aired here in Canada. I watched it because I was both a Beatles and Python fan. I didn't get all the humor as I was just 12 but the older I got I did. What makes this solid is that while it is parody it is also it's own thing. The music is legit and stands. This is the great thing about UA-cam is that people can discover how cool this is.
20:55 He says " how close we come to pulling a Twilight Zone" in reference to the helicopter that landed on Vic Morrow and two children while shooting a scene for the movie. Morrow and one of the children were decapitated, and the other child crushed.
The cost to make that today would be huge. I couldn't see at TV company taking a punt on something like this now. To think this was made with good old fashioned old school filmmaking - no CGI or AI. The way they match the film stock alone is amazing. They must have worked so hard to get this end result. I'd like to know how long it took Neil to write and record the songs.
Neil is one of those talents that are few and far between. His Ron Nasty character stole my heart...but I've always been partial to John Lennon "bad boy" type..
@@waynej2608 we think alike. I was just watching the movie of them cause it's quite funny,and I needed cheering up and it showed that part and I was laughing. My aunt gave me her copies of A Spaniard In the Works and In His Own Write...
the late 70s is when i used to watch "saturday night live" regularly. i remember eric idle hosting but don't remember any "rutles" clips on that show. it makes me wonder how much influence idle and the rutles had on belushi and akroyd creating the "blues brothers." i can imagine the two sitting therre watching the "rutles" clip and saying - man, if eric idle can make a success out of a fictional band SO CAN WE! i first saw "the rultes: all you need is cash" on american cable movie channels. probably in the early 80s. as a massive beatles' afficionado i thought the rutles was an excellent parody and still do. got the film in my digital movie collection. neil innes' musical and acting contributions to the monty python tv shows and films is undeniable. along with the contributions of carol cleveland and connie booth. and it seems, george harrison also was a wonderful financial contributor. no one ever seems to notice george's short cameo in "the life of brian." and his appearence in "the rutles" was really cool.
I remember seeing The Rutles feature on SNL. The popularity of the feature is what led to the documentary “All You Need Is Cash.” It was in 1978. I still have the soundtrack album on vinyl.
From what I understand The Blues Brothers came about because Belushi and Ackroyd used to go blues bars together and started joining in the open mic events. Evenutally the idea came up to do it on the show as an opening number and the reaction was tremendous, and thus The Blues Brothers began. Before that John Belushi had done a skit singing "King Bee" (an old blues standard) dressed as a bee, a recurring character he hated doing.
According to Eric Idle, George, John, Ringo, Yoko and Linda loved it, but Paul didn't. Eric believed that this was down to the way he played the character, picking up on Paul's idiosyncrasies and goofiness, something that Linda probably found endearing but Paul might be a little sensitive about.
Of all the Beatles, Paul appears to be the one tha takes himself and their music more seriously so he naturally would be upset about being portrayed in a comedic way. George John and Ringo see all the hype and silliness of Beatlemania more clearly. Paul has a big ego and since of importance about what he has done as a composer and musician.
Eric was absent during the Archeology day's and although this was an extra on the DVD I doubt he had much to do with it. Pherhaps on the production but he brags alot about the Rutles so it wouldn't make sense for him not to be interviewed on his holy grail while being on the team.
Dude. I love Gwen Taylor, and I didn't know that was her in the tub. Wow! It does not look like Iris Mountbatten or any of the RWT characters Chastity is so skinny. I'm blown away.
Way better than Spinal Tap with some killer lines, my favourite being - 'there was a plethora of lawsuits - Barry sued Dirk, Stig and Nasty - Nasty sued Dirk, Stig and Barry - Dirk sued Barry, Stig and Nasty and Stig sued himself accidentally.
The beauty of cult films and TV shows is that they don't create an impact initially, but once they gain momentum they are totally unstoppable and outlast the popular stuff of their respective eras. Family Guy was cancelled twice in its early years but look at it afterwards.
Eric and Gary must've known it was meant to be when they noticed their production name would be Idle-Weis! Chastity must've appreciated that, anyway...
The claim is that the first actors in a Rock n Roll Vid that appeared in the parody were actors from Nervana - Smells Like Teenage Spirit appearing in Weird Al Yankovic's version. ERIC IDLE and friends THE RUTTLES did it first! EDIT: FFS, they had George helping them!
There's one aspect of this wonderful parody of the Beatles (or was it the other way round?) that has lost currency over the years - a new audience will get its Beatle parallels (provided they know the Beatles story; if they don't - this is almost identical and probably suffices), but you had to be there in the late 1970s to get the point of the 'at great expense' interviews with the old bluesmen - as that had nothing to do with a Beatles parody - but was based on a UK show called 'All You Need is Love-A History of Popular Music' that was airing at the same time - and did exactly what you see in the Rutles film - semi-incoherent and almost completely pointless interviews, filmed, on location, and at great expense in the Mississippi delta and/or New Orleans. No one watching was ever sure why, but the series wasn't going to abandon the (expensive) footage just because it was pointless. Check it out (if you can find it) - and those bits mirroring it in the Rutles documentary make a lot more sense!
Eric Idle said that Gwen Taylor was the finest comedy actress he ever worked with "she could do anything" Maybe her talents were wasted on Duty Free (although she was by far the funniest thing in it)
We used to watch DNAYS when I was little. I loved David Jason and Denise Coffey and the wonderful Bonzo's. I used to find the young men in dark suits (Eric, Terry and MIchael) rather annoying. Don't ask me why!! I was only 7!!
i recall this was a TV program aired in 1978 then came Spinal Tap. Was a good time for comedy. SCTV, Saturday Night Live. Everything was very cynical back then but people were cynical as well. At least there was critical thinking. Not like today.
I'm still not over Neil passing away in 2019.
Yeah. I was shocked. And stunned. I was shocked and stunned. Laugh, Neil would have.
Same here.
The Innes Book Of Records is also quite overlooked.
Me neither.
He was a brilliant songwright.
Very stunned 😔
That first Rutles album is legitimately great. Not as a parody or pastiche, or anything, but on its own, it's a truly marvelous collection of songs. The second one is good too.
The second one took even longer 😁😁
I agree with George's brother.
I was a freshman here at the University of Cincinnati. We had a little room that would show videos on 3/4 inch tape. And I saw this and I saw it again and again and again. It played for a week, I think.
Some real classics - I Must Be in Love, Barry Wom's Living in Hope and Cheese and Onion with the epic last note.
And yes, Archaelogy is good too - Shangri -la is a standout homage to Hey Jude
You're right. I actually saw The Rutles (minus Eric) live in London, they were a proper tight band and the songs really stood up. I was privileged to shake the hand of the great Barrington Womble. I washed the hand immediately, mine not Barry's.
So much genius in this film. But most especially Neil Innes's astonishingly brilliant songs ❤
I had the pleasure of meeting Neil in the 90s and expressed this very sentiment to him. Pure genius.
@@10MinuteGuitarJams i also met him when he did a couple of gigs up at a very small venue here in Chester.First as The Rutles.Next by himself. Great memories.
" This isn't too shabby." Got to be the greatest understatement ever uttered in history.
The legend has certainly lasted longer than a lunchtime.
It’s over 40 years old and it’s still making me laugh… nuff said
I watched All You Need is Cash when it first aired, I've watched it dozens of times since, and I own it on DVD. I still crack up every time I watch it. The music, the jokes, and the attention to detail are amazing, considering that the film was produced in a short time and on a low budget. The combination of talents that went into this film are like almost nothing else that existed before or since.
Me too. An absolute comedy masterpiece.
Television? In Australia, we had to pay at the cinema to watch this, and we did. I must have seen this movie more than ten times at the Capri Theater in Adelaide. Worth every cent.
@@martythemartian99 Late at night at the Capri from memory. Later in a double bill with Spinal Tap.
This and Spinal Tap are my 2 favorite films.
I saw it when it aired on NBC and thought it was very funny even though I didn't know much about the Beatles at the time. On Monday I asked my friends about it and not one of them had seen it.
Not only did I love Neil in The Rutles, but I loved his work in The Holy Grail. Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin.
"When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled."
I remember when the album came out. We were blown away by the music and how clever it all was. Years later I was lucky enough to get a package in the post from Neil. Hand written lyrics to Piggy In The Middle. 4 months later he was gone. May he rest in peace.
Seeing Ricky Fataar talking is like hearing Harpo Marx speak. He didn't say a single word in the entire film.
He now plays drums in Bonnie Raitts' band.
But he was OK dressing up as an air stewardess
He has a line in Yellow Submarine Sandwich.
Neil Innes was a true treasure. I saw The Rutles at the 100 Club in London in 2006. Met him afterward and he was so gracious and warm. ❤
I agree - I wrote to him a few years ago to ask for a signed photo for my Dad's birthday and he obliged and also did one for me too. Lovely guy, fantastic talent + super modest!
I saw him solo, Arlington, Massachusetts.
I was in high school when "All You Need Is Cash" came out. I watched it when it aired and bought the album right away. I still have it. My favorite Rutles song is "Piggy in the Middle".
We watched it as a family when it first aired and laughed and laughed.
Stig, Barry, Dirk and Nasty showed just how big The Beatles could have been.
More popular than Rod.
We can only dream ☁
Your gag here would have been good enough for the film, my friend. Brilliant understatement!💖
One of my favourite films!! Still the best parody ever of the Prefab Four! RIP the immensely talented Neil Innes……..🙏
Ringo did in fact have a desire to be a hairdresser and own a string of shops. I grew up on BBC Radio Beatle specials and we distinctly remember Ringo saying that.
Yep. There’s even film of Ringo saying that.
He wanted to be 'two hairdressers,'.
there' a clip of ringo saying that. its in the 1980s video documentary "the complete beatles."
He did say that but I always thought he was joking. Anyone?
'goose-step mama' love it.
How did they even cpme up with that?
The Rultes music alone is absolutely fantastic. The drumming is as close to Ringo ad you could ever get.
I remember saeeing the short film on SNL when Eric Idle hosted. I've been a huge Beatles fan my whole life and I thought it was brilliant. Then a year or two later my sister (also a lifelong Beatles fan) and I were watching TV one night and this movie came on. We both absolutely loved it. Never heard about it again for many years. I was visiting my sister in Calidornia about 20 years later. We decided to watch a movie one night and we talked about The Rutles, but figured there was no way the video store would have the movie. Lo and behold, they did! We watched it again and loved every second of it. It's nice to see that it has it's own 'cult', and that we have all this kind of thing that we can see out here on UA-cam. Neil did an amazing job with all those songs, personally that's my favorite part of the whole movie. Lots of great lines and acting too, and all the cameos from the SNL folks and Paul Simon and George and MIck were all great. Thanks, Eric and Neil! One of my favorite movies ever.
I loved it when it came out and always thought the songwriting was masterful, all the camera angles and spoofs on every photo shoot and press conference, just brilliant.
I went out with a girl who was an Innes, it turned she was his niece, her brother looks just like Neil. She told me a lovely story about being at his place one time, her and her twin sister were 15 at the time. Neil had run out of weed but the sisters had some but couldn't say anything because their mum was there and would disapprove. So they got Neil and told him, so he took them for a look around the garden and they had a smoke and he took them into his studio. He asked them to listen to a new tune he had written, she said it was a beautiful, moving piece of work and they both were in tears at the end of it.
Loved The Rutles from day 1. Brilliant. THE MUSIC!...phenom.
We were all astounded when Rutles
showed up because we’re all Beatles fans since approximately the beginning
And to do a
Mockumentary of them was astounding
Absolutely brilliant, so loved the Rutles, tribute to the greatest band ever!
I have to watch The Rutles at least twice a year or the universe doesn't seem quite right. It's brilliant!
Absolutely. The Rutles are in my veins, my DNA...
I met and spoke to Neil at a real ale festival back in the late 90's where he was presenting a bit on it for a regional l tv show and asked him if we'll ever hear from the Rutles again and his answer was 'probably not as 'they' would'nt let us do it'!Lovely fella and wish i'd have got his autograph but i was so star struck i forgot to ask
I watched SNL live that night when Lorne first announced that he had gotten the Rutles film. My buddy and I laughed our heads off. When the movie came out on TV we thought it was brilliant! Love the Rutles!
As an comedy epicurean, Neil was woven into the fabric of non-traditional television in my growing years. We took so much for granted, as he always had so many tricks up his sleeve to capture the zeitgeist of his topic and mould his lyrics into a novel song. Thoroughly enjoyed the spoofery of The Rutles and also his solo series, “Innes Book of Records”. Wherein he applied his accomplished pathos and musical expertise, treating us to his own fascinating brand of rock’n’roll.
I saw Neil and the Rutles play the Troubador in LA back in the mid 90s. Neil wore the Lennon green military clothes and the rest if the band had traditional 1964 suits.
If only Leggy hadn't tragically accepted that teaching post in Australia. History was forever altered on that day.
Luckily you can still contact him through the Ouija board, and telegrams
After all these years I still say that line, shocked & stunned. I haven't watched Ruttles in years
It's rutles man😮
I loved it from the first time I saw it. Eric and Neil’s contributions were great. But so many cameos by so many made this little film. Love the music too. 😂
Saw it when it first aired. I loved it. I was a twelve year old Beatles fan. I watch every now and again and it still makes me laugh. Cheers
I saw this in the mid 80s first time and I've watched it at least a dozen times after that but I never knew there was so much improvisation.
Thank you for uploading.
What a treat! Thank you for uploading this treasure. It's 'The Rutles' world, we just live in it...
Very Stunned…
Fabulous! I had the Rutles film on VHS (later on dvd, slightly longer). My brother bought the LP in 1978 or so. I was a massive Beatles fan starting around 77/78. He gave me the LP and I was well away. I'm going to watch this again in the next few days. Really enjoyed this, cheers.
I'm a musician who loves the Beatles and I saw The Rutles All You Need Is Cash on TV in the seventies and absolutely loved it!,I loved it so much I even went out and bought the album,God bless the band that started it all the Rutles! Bob
Great upload. Thank you and best wishes from a homesick Englishman making armour in a French forest. 🎶🏆🇬🇧
I just have so many questions.
@alexandergibbs6950 Maybe a typo...making amour...making love🤔
Thought it was fantastic when it aired, and still do. Very clever, and entertaining piece of work.
They did the whole film for $250,000? Incredible, I mean, so many sets, costumes, wigs, extras, etc. I don’t know if that includes the music production, but even if it didn’t, that is extraordinarily efficient. I saw the special the first time it aired on American TV. I think not long before that, I saw “The Compleat Beatles” documentary, and “All you need is cash” just checked off scene after scene.
At the time you could buy a home in a city for $1000.
How much would 250 homes cost today?
To hear Ricky Fataar talk (or was that dubbed?) is a thrill.
Yes! That is indeed Stig talking
My favourite pastiche film ever…so clever…so charismatic and just very very funny.
Get Back or Get up and go? So funny! 🏃 Oops wrong way! ▶
Legendary and brilliant. A once in a lifetime convergence of talents, attitudes, and enthusiasm.
Thank you so much for presenting this documentary. The Rutles -the acting and the songs- were very convincing. I believe that "Cheese and onions" was once believed it to be a John
Lennon's song. Peaceandlove.
I remember it well. Thanks for uploading.
I love The Beatles nearly as much as I love The Rutles....
So do i rich😊
The only thing keeping this from being the best "mockumentary" ever made is that you have to know the Beatles histroy, or you won't get the jokes.
At the time it was made most people did
Spinal Tap is in a similar vein. You have to know hard rock history in order to fully appreciate the humor. But I suppose that The Rutles movie in a way paved the way for Spinal Tap
Spinal Tap is pretty pitiful compared to The Rutles.
@@voxpox1850 this isn’t a competition. Lol
@@voxpox1850no it isn't.
I was lucky to see Innes in 2018 while he was in San Diego discussing an upcoming tour.
"It wasn't the first of a series, it was just something that happened at that time."
Oh, those wonderful days before Hollywood would have insisted on building the Rutles Cinematic Universe.
The music is fab
0:22 "The Pre-Pythons" reminds me of course of "The Pre-Fab Four".
DNAYS and Nice Time were my favorite programs when I was 6. Never did me any harm.
Some of The Rutles tracks appeared on bootleg albums by The Beatles...that shows what a good job Neil Innes did on The Rutles album / film to get piss takes were the real thing!
The Rutles song I remember on a Beatles bootleg was Cheese and Onions. My friend who had the bootleg was a Beatles fanatic and hadn't seen the Rutles show and didn't know it wasn't the Beatles until I broke it to him. He angrily didn't believe me. He didn't think anyone could copy the Beatles so convincingly!
I have a vinyl copy of a Beatles bootleg called "Indian Rope Trick" with "Cheese and Onions" on it. Of course I already knew it was The Rutles. There is also a track on it called "Not Guilty" which is not the George Harrison version by The Beatles but instead it is actually a tune called "Frenzy and Distortion" by Ravi Shankar. The rest of the tracks on it besides The Rutles one are really The Beatles though.
@@CaptainGanja the bootleg track of Cheese and Onions is neighhter the film nor the album version. It's Neil in a TV show (I think it was SNL). This was before All You Need Is Cash was released.
Nice work! Thanks for doing this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The Rutles were the inspiration for The Beatles.
I've been looking for a long time, thanks
Thanks for watching!
@@KatsuRutles Thanks to you for being one of the few people who are still interested in or know the rutles and upload this type of videos, I hope one day to collaborate!
They say that almost nobody saw "All You Need Is Cash" when it first aired on NBC in 1978, but I watched it. I loved it then, and I love it even more now.
I watched it on NBC in 1978 too when I was 17. Loved it bigtime!
I watched it with my parents, I was eleven. I loved it....and still do.
I watched it with my sister. We're both lifelong Beatles nuts and absolutely loved it. I would have been 18 at the time, she would have been 16. We found it in a video store about 20 years later and were able to watch it again, that was so much fun. We couldn't believe the video store had it, we had never heard hide nor hair of it since that day in 1978. Over the years we'd bring it up now and then and figured we'd never see it again.
Lovely movie with so many historical references that can be investigated and compared if one like.
Love it, SNL meets Monty Python with Neil's great music
Wonderful
One of my favourite mockumentarys, ever.
I know the sound track album by heart.
So I sang along during this excellent documentary😀
I was also pleasantly surprised, a few years ago,
to find a lot of "new" Rutles songs available.
Check out Archaeology , if you're a fan.
The All You Need is Cash film was a shot for shot parody of a documentary called The Compleat Beatles.
Watching that beforehand makes AYNIC twice as funny.
Comedy masterpiece…
if there hadn't been a rutles,would there have been a spinal tap? rob reiner gets a lot of praise for his "mockumentary", but really "all you need is cash" started it all.
Before there was Spinal Tap, there was The Rutles. People tend to forget that. I think I was 12 when I watched The Rutles when it aired here in Canada. I watched it because I was both a Beatles and Python fan. I didn't get all the humor as I was just 12 but the older I got I did. What makes this solid is that while it is parody it is also it's own thing. The music is legit and stands. This is the great thing about UA-cam is that people can discover how cool this is.
I met Paul. Having seen this I knew not to mention the Rutles. Thanks! (True story)
20:55 He says " how close we come to pulling a Twilight Zone" in reference to the helicopter that landed on Vic Morrow and two children while shooting a scene for the movie. Morrow and one of the children were decapitated, and the other child crushed.
The cost to make that today would be huge. I couldn't see at TV company taking a punt on something like this now.
To think this was made with good old fashioned old school filmmaking - no CGI or AI. The way they match the film stock alone is amazing. They must have worked so hard to get this end result.
I'd like to know how long it took Neil to write and record the songs.
Neil is one of those talents that are few and far between. His Ron Nasty character stole my heart...but I've always been partial to John Lennon "bad boy" type..
I love that Nasty's best selling book, written at the height of 'Rutlemania' was called 'Out of Me Head'. Lmao! Love it!
@@waynej2608 we think alike. I was just watching the movie of them cause it's quite funny,and I needed cheering up and it showed that part and I was laughing. My aunt gave me her copies of A Spaniard In the Works and In His Own Write...
the late 70s is when i used to watch "saturday night live" regularly. i remember eric idle hosting but don't remember any "rutles" clips on that show. it makes me wonder how much influence idle and the rutles had on belushi and akroyd creating the "blues brothers." i can imagine the two sitting therre watching the "rutles" clip and saying - man, if eric idle can make a success out of a fictional band SO CAN WE!
i first saw "the rultes: all you need is cash" on american cable movie channels. probably in the early 80s. as a massive beatles' afficionado i thought the rutles was an excellent parody and still do. got the film in my digital movie collection.
neil innes' musical and acting contributions to the monty python tv shows and films is undeniable. along with the contributions of carol cleveland and connie booth. and it seems, george harrison also was a wonderful financial contributor. no one ever seems to notice george's short cameo in "the life of brian." and his appearence in "the rutles" was really cool.
I remember seeing The Rutles feature on SNL. The popularity of the feature is what led to the documentary “All You Need Is Cash.” It was in 1978. I still have the soundtrack album on vinyl.
@@kaymuldoon3575 do you think the fictional "rutles" had an influence on belushi and ackroyd to create the fictional "blues bros?"
From what I understand The Blues Brothers came about because Belushi and Ackroyd used to go blues bars together and started joining in the open mic events. Evenutally the idea came up to do it on the show as an opening number and the reaction was tremendous, and thus The Blues Brothers began. Before that John Belushi had done a skit singing "King Bee" (an old blues standard) dressed as a bee, a recurring character he hated doing.
@@kaymuldoon3575 The SNL feature was a taped video clip from I must be in love, lifted from The Rutland Television Show from Brittain. It's in B&W.
According to Eric Idle, George, John, Ringo, Yoko and Linda loved it, but Paul didn't. Eric believed that this was down to the way he played the character, picking up on Paul's idiosyncrasies and goofiness, something that Linda probably found endearing but Paul might be a little sensitive about.
Of all the Beatles, Paul appears to be the one tha takes himself and their music more seriously so he naturally would be upset about being portrayed in a comedic way. George John and Ringo see all the hype and silliness of Beatlemania more clearly. Paul has a big ego and since of importance about what he has done as a composer and musician.
What did John & Paul think if the Rutles?
The Beatles might never come home from Hamburg uf theyd had their "Goose-Step Mama."
No one did a better send up or ever will.
Strange Eric was not interviewed.
Eric was absent during the Archeology day's and although this was an extra on the DVD I doubt he had much to do with it. Pherhaps on the production but he brags alot about the Rutles so it wouldn't make sense for him not to be interviewed on his holy grail while being on the team.
David Bowie must have been a fan because during his 1978 world tour the album was played in the theaters before the show.
Dude. I love Gwen Taylor, and I didn't know that was her in the tub. Wow! It does not look like Iris Mountbatten or any of the RWT characters Chastity is so skinny. I'm blown away.
Way better than Spinal Tap with some killer lines, my favourite being - 'there was a plethora of lawsuits - Barry sued Dirk, Stig and Nasty - Nasty sued Dirk, Stig and Barry - Dirk sued Barry, Stig and Nasty and Stig sued himself accidentally.
Hello. Where did this little film come from please? Is it an extra from a DVD or Blu-Ray release if All You Need Is Cash?
Yes its an Extra on the 30th anniversary release of the DVD!
The beauty of cult films and TV shows is that they don't create an impact initially, but once they gain momentum they are totally unstoppable and outlast the popular stuff of their respective eras. Family Guy was cancelled twice in its early years but look at it afterwards.
Eric and Gary must've known it was meant to be when they noticed their production name would be Idle-Weis!
Chastity must've appreciated that, anyway...
@27:52 i can watch this a hundred times and it gets funnier every time 😂
The claim is that the first actors in a Rock n Roll Vid that appeared in the parody were actors from Nervana - Smells Like Teenage Spirit appearing in Weird Al Yankovic's version. ERIC IDLE and friends THE RUTTLES did it first! EDIT: FFS, they had George helping them!
At 15:00, is he speaking into a cylinder from a car engine? lol
Innes could easily have been in the Fabs, he's that good.
There's one aspect of this wonderful parody of the Beatles (or was it the other way round?) that has lost currency over the years - a new audience will get its Beatle parallels (provided they know the Beatles story; if they don't - this is almost identical and probably suffices), but you had to be there in the late 1970s to get the point of the 'at great expense' interviews with the old bluesmen - as that had nothing to do with a Beatles parody - but was based on a UK show called 'All You Need is Love-A History of Popular Music' that was airing at the same time - and did exactly what you see in the Rutles film - semi-incoherent and almost completely pointless interviews, filmed, on location, and at great expense in the Mississippi delta and/or New Orleans. No one watching was ever sure why, but the series wasn't going to abandon the (expensive) footage just because it was pointless. Check it out (if you can find it) - and those bits mirroring it in the Rutles documentary make a lot more sense!
the tightest trousers in the game
I think it was trousers
Yes. they were very tiiiight... Left nothing to the imagination.
Eric Idle said that Gwen Taylor was the finest comedy actress he ever worked with "she could do anything"
Maybe her talents were wasted on Duty Free (although she was by far the funniest thing in it)
Iris Mountbatten for President! Or something.
so sad to find out Neil passed away :( I honestly thought he was still alive
Gwen Taylor seriously needed to be in alot more stuff
I have the Rutles LP. cheese and onions.
No Eric?
I for one thought it was brilliant
"Only the band the Beatles could have been," A. Partridge.
We used to watch DNAYS when I was little. I loved David Jason and Denise Coffey and the wonderful Bonzo's. I used to find the young men in dark suits (Eric, Terry and MIchael) rather annoying. Don't ask me why!! I was only 7!!
Would Spinal Tap have been made if this movie wasn't?
i recall this was a TV program aired in 1978 then came Spinal Tap. Was a good time for comedy. SCTV, Saturday Night Live. Everything was very cynical back then but people were cynical as well. At least there was critical thinking. Not like today.