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THE RUTLES - With A Girl Like You (1964) Play Video

THE RUTLES - With A Girl Like You (1964)

"A Hard Day's Rut" 7/10/1964, footage from Rutlemania document.

THE RUTLES - Cheese And Onions (1969) Play Video

THE RUTLES - Cheese And Onions (1969)

"Yellow Submarine Sandwich" (Soundtrack 1/17/1969)

The Rutles: Shangrila Play Video

The Rutles: Shangrila

The Rutles gather an all-star chorus together to record their reunion single.

THE RUTLES - Piggy In The Middle (1967) Play Video

THE RUTLES - Piggy In The Middle (1967)

11/24/1967 (Parlourphone single)

THE RUTLES - Ouch! (1965) Play Video

THE RUTLES - Ouch! (1965)

7/23/1965 (Parlourphone single)

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Rutles Biography

The Rutles (also known as the Prefab Four) are a band that are known for their visual and aural pastiches and parodies of The Beatles. Originally created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes as a fictional band to be featured as part of various 1970s television programming, the group (remaining a parody of The Beatles) recorded, toured, and released two UK chart hits in reality.

Initially created for a short sketch in Idle's UK television comedy series Rutland Weekend Television, the Rutles gained international fame after being the focus of the 1978 mockumentary television film, All You Need Is Cash (often referred to as just The Rutles). Having been encouraged by the reaction to the sketch, featuring Beatles' music pastiches by Neil Innes, the film was written by Idle, who co-directed it with Gary Weis. It featured 20 songs written by Innes, which he performed with three musicians as "The Rutles". A successful soundtrack album in 1978 was, much later, followed in 1996 by Archaeology, which spoofed the Beatles' Anthology series which had recently been released. The Rutles pre-date the American parody Spinal Tap by about a year.

A second film, The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch -- modelled on the 2000 TV special The Beatles Revolution -- was made in 2002 and released in the US on DVD in 2003, but it did not prove as popular as the original film.

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Rutles Lyrics

Rutles - Piggy in the Middle Lyrics

I know you know what you know
But you should know by now that you're not me
Talk about a month of Sundays
Toffee nosed wet weekend as far as I can see

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Rutles - Questionnaire Lyrics

Hey mister man in the street, excuse me
Do you have a few moments to spare? Oh yeah
Don't worry, I'm not trying to sell you anything
You wouldn't want, I'm just a questionnaire

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Rutles - I Must Be In Love Lyrics

I feel good, I feel bad
I feel happy, I feel sad
Am I in love? I must be in love

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Rutles - Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Musik Lyrics

Look at all the nice things money can buy
Every day there's more and more
Do you ever stop and wonder why
You're neither rich nor poor

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Rutles - Don't Know Why Lyrics

I don't know why
The world turns out to be
The way it is
As time goes by

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Rutles - Number One Lyrics

Number one, number one
(Number one, number one)
You're my number one
(You're my number one)

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Rutles - Ouch! Lyrics

Ouch, you're breakin' my heart
Ouch, I'm fallin' apart
Ouch, ow ow ouch

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Rutles - Let's Be Natural Lyrics

Time goes by, as we all know, naturally
People come and people go, naturally

Let's be natural, ever since the world began

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Rutles - Love Life Lyrics

Love life, love life, love life, love life

Make up your mind
(Love life)

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Rutles - Living In Hope Lyrics

I grew up in the Country
Beside a chicken shack
So I left for the City
And I didn't look back

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Rutles Discography

Rutles albums.

  • Archaeology - (Virgin Records America/US)

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