The Rutles
Parody group of The Beatles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Rutles (/ˈrʌtəlz/) were a rock band that performed visual and aural pastiches and parodies of the Beatles. This originally fictional band, created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for a sketch in Idle's mid-1970s BBC television comedy series Rutland Weekend Television, later toured and recorded, releasing two studio albums and garnering two UK chart hits.[which?] The band toured again from 2002 until Innes's death in 2019.
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Origin | Rutland, England |
Genres | Rock, parody, comedy rock, rock and roll |
Years active | 1975–1978, 1996–1997, 2002–2019 |
Labels | Warner Bros., Rhino, Virgin |
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Website | www |
Encouraged by the positive public reaction to the sketch, Idle wrote the mockumentary television film All You Need Is Cash (1978, a.k.a. The Rutles). Idle co-directed the film with Gary Weis; it features 20 Beatles' music pastiches written by Innes, which he performed with three musicians as the Rutles. A soundtrack album in 1978 was followed in 1996 by Archaeology, which spoofed the then-recent Beatles Anthology series. 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.