For the Bonzos' fans

[crisgal]

What about The Rutles? I loved 'em!

and who remembers this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEPFKy8Yqm0

fantastic!

[littleoldme]

I used to love The Innes Book of Records when I was a kid - for some reason the song I Love Cezanne Says Anne particularly sticks in my head. I'm not old enough to remember the Bonzos when they were around, but I've become quite a fan since. What a gloriously deranged fellow Vivian Stanshall was too.

[VHG]

I still have the original Rutles album (LP!) in my loft.

Being a Beatles fan I always thought the Rutles songs were brilliant parodies.

And the Rutles album cover is such a brilliant pastiche of all the Beatles albums: Meet the Rutles, Tragical History Tour etc, picture here:

http://www.iankitching.me.uk/music/bonzos/pics /rutles.jpg

I have often thought that if a DJ played some Rutles songs and announced them as Beatles songs few people would notice the difference, like these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qf8y7v0WIE&fea ture=PlayList&p=26E1A0E1BC0A95EA&playnext=1&in dex=15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54KBPA20b9Q

[VHG]

Brief history of the Rutles (for those that dont know).

After Monty Python split up Eric Idle was given the chance to do a comedy series on BBC TV.

He decided it would be fun to do a series pretending it was coming from England's smallest county, Rutland, where everything was a cheap copy of the "real thing".

The show was called Rutland Weekend Television (a play on the company name London Weekend Television that did exist at the time).

In the series he did a short spoof documentary about Rutland's most famous pop band called "The Rutles" (a cheap version of the Beatles).

This was so well received that American TV asked him to make a full length documentary which is now available on DVD.

A full length album of the songs was also released.

Neil Innes (ex Bonzos) was one of the Rutles and wrote the songs and appeared as "John" in the documentary.

The documentary featured some brilliant recreations of the Beatles in the different periods of their career, with songs that also showed the different phases of the Beatles career.

Here is the DVD

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rutles-Need-Cash-30th- Anniversary/dp/B001DNNCTO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s =dvd&qid=1234998498&sr=8-1

Here is the audio CD

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rutles/dp/B000SKMU5A/r ef=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1234998498&sr=8- 2

Great stuff

[crisgal]

thanks VHG, absolutely brilliant!