When Ron Nasty upset the U.S. Bible Belt peeps by claiming The Rutles were bigger than God
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Their influence on rock 'n' roll is immeasurable. Simply because nobody's bothered measuring it.
Didn't John Lennon in a 1966 interview say "The Beatles are more popular than Jesus"?
Was a The Rutles thing a take-off on that?
Was a The Rutles thing a take-off on that?
Yes.
The Rutles is a spoof of the Beatles and Beatlemania.
All the songs are spoofs, the whole arc of the story parallels the Beatles.
They are "The Pre-Fab Four".
The whole story is told in the mockumentary - All You Need is Cash.
Neil Innes was the musical brains behind the Ruttles. Truly a great guy. His pedigree goes back to the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band.
Had to laugh at his response to one of the Gallagher bros of Oasis claiming they better than the Beatles. Innes said " they're not even better than the Ruttles".
since someone seems to need a crash course.
Do Not Adjust Your Set: Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Hunting Tigers - YouTube
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band "I'm the Urban Spaceman" - YouTube
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Canyons Of Your Mind 1968 - YouTube
Had to laugh at his response to one of the Gallagher bros of Oasis claiming they better than the Beatles. Innes said " they're not even better than the Ruttles".
since someone seems to need a crash course.
Do Not Adjust Your Set: Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Hunting Tigers - YouTube
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band "I'm the Urban Spaceman" - YouTube
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Canyons Of Your Mind 1968 - YouTube
Neil Innes was a legend. Urban Spaceman is probably my favourite song of his with its covert and sometimes overt references to speed/amphetamines, LOL.
Speaking of Oasis, Neil Innes actually sued Oasis over the intro to one of their songs ("Whatever") being very similar to "How Sweet to be an Idiot" -- and he won. So Noel Gallagher now has to live with the indignity of sharing a songwriting credit with a guy who publicly insulted him.
Bon Jovi are bigger than The Beatles, they've sold a billion more albums.
I saw Neil Innes live as part of Eric Idle's tour at the Elgin Theater, great fun.
I saw Neil Innes live as part of Eric Idle's tour at the Elgin Theater, great fun.
Man, the FUNNIEST YouTube comment I ever read was on a Motorhead video. Guy wrote: "If Lemmy fucked my wife I'd be jealous of her."
Lemmy insulted Will Smith's wife.
Will Smith thanked him for his input and slapped himself.
The first in-depth documentary about the Beatles came out in 1982: The Compleat Beatles. It uses lots of the same footage and follows the exact same timeline as The Rutles: All You Need is Cash.
What's hilarious about this is the fact the Rutles documentary was released four years earlier, lol.
Some additional notes:
The Rutles first appeared on the BBC television series Rutland Weekend Television, (AKA RWT), season 1, episode 3. The original broadcast was on May 26, 1975. They also appeared in season 2, episode 1of RWT, (November 12, 1976), and at least one other episode in between these two; there were two seasons of RWT, with 7 episodes in each.
The Rutles first appeared on US Television in October 2, 1976, on NBC's Saturday Night - This was the announced name of the current show Saturday Night Live for its first two seasons. The ABC network had aired a sketch comedy/ variety show named Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell during the 1975-76 television season.
The original broadcast of The Rutles in All You Need is Cash, on March 22, 1978, was the lowest rated show for that calendar week, (at the time, there were only three US television networks, ABC, NBC and CBS).
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band performed the song Death Cab for Cutie in The Beatles' television film Magical Mystery Tour, (originally aired December 26, 1967).
The Wikipedia page for The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band contains information that I added personally, as an editor. I added the information about their television appearance on the December 31, 1968 episode of Beat Club.
I have several Wikipedia page editing credits. The one which relates most to this board is in the filmography of Cynthia Wood. Cyndi was the February, 1973 Playboy Playmate of the Month, and 1974 Playboy Playmate of the Year. I added the information that she played the role of "Playmate of the Year" in the 1979 film, Apocalypse Now.
FYI: Anyone can be an editor of Wikipedia, but most people misunderstand the site's intent. It is not an online encyclopedia. It is a repository of information, believed to be factual, which can be cross-referenced through links to other reliable online sources.
If you were an eyewitness to an historical event, and had unpublished video evidence which supported your story, it would not be published on Wikipedia. When I edited the information for The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and Cyndi Wood, I provided cross reference links to youtube and imdb, respectively. In another situation, I had a full list of the performers on the 1978 ITV UK music TV series Revolver, as well as physical copies of each of the eight episodes, but that information was not added to the page, specifically because it was not published on another reliable website, so no cross reference link existed. I did, however, reach the appeal stage - a retired Wikipedia editor who surfaces about once per month to make yes/ no decisions on unusual situations such as this one ruled against me.
The Rutles first appeared on the BBC television series Rutland Weekend Television, (AKA RWT), season 1, episode 3. The original broadcast was on May 26, 1975. They also appeared in season 2, episode 1of RWT, (November 12, 1976), and at least one other episode in between these two; there were two seasons of RWT, with 7 episodes in each.
The Rutles first appeared on US Television in October 2, 1976, on NBC's Saturday Night - This was the announced name of the current show Saturday Night Live for its first two seasons. The ABC network had aired a sketch comedy/ variety show named Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell during the 1975-76 television season.
The original broadcast of The Rutles in All You Need is Cash, on March 22, 1978, was the lowest rated show for that calendar week, (at the time, there were only three US television networks, ABC, NBC and CBS).
The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band performed the song Death Cab for Cutie in The Beatles' television film Magical Mystery Tour, (originally aired December 26, 1967).
The Wikipedia page for The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band contains information that I added personally, as an editor. I added the information about their television appearance on the December 31, 1968 episode of Beat Club.
I have several Wikipedia page editing credits. The one which relates most to this board is in the filmography of Cynthia Wood. Cyndi was the February, 1973 Playboy Playmate of the Month, and 1974 Playboy Playmate of the Year. I added the information that she played the role of "Playmate of the Year" in the 1979 film, Apocalypse Now.
FYI: Anyone can be an editor of Wikipedia, but most people misunderstand the site's intent. It is not an online encyclopedia. It is a repository of information, believed to be factual, which can be cross-referenced through links to other reliable online sources.
If you were an eyewitness to an historical event, and had unpublished video evidence which supported your story, it would not be published on Wikipedia. When I edited the information for The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and Cyndi Wood, I provided cross reference links to youtube and imdb, respectively. In another situation, I had a full list of the performers on the 1978 ITV UK music TV series Revolver, as well as physical copies of each of the eight episodes, but that information was not added to the page, specifically because it was not published on another reliable website, so no cross reference link existed. I did, however, reach the appeal stage - a retired Wikipedia editor who surfaces about once per month to make yes/ no decisions on unusual situations such as this one ruled against me.
