Neil Innes would have liked to see the word ‘rutle’ in the dictionary. “As a verb,” he said, “meaning ‘to copy or emulate someone you admire, especially in music’.” Frank Zappa once posed the question ...

In 1978, The Beatles’ story was so well-known it inspired a film that spoofed every aspect of it: The Rutles. It features jokes about everything from Yoko Ono to Yellow Submarine to “Get Back.” Part ...

The original Rutles reunited for the first time! Well, they actually reunited for the movie showing previous to this one. And they probably had to have a meeting to discuss things, perhaps they went ...

I watched The Rutles’ film, All You Need is Cash, while eating a sausage biscuit for lunch. It seems I just stumbled upon them at random, although I recall hearing about them during a loose round of ...

“I remember the first time I saw them live. I had nagged my parents to take me to the Rutles’ 1963 Christmas Show. At the Finsbury Park Astoria (later the legendary rock venue The Rainbow) in North ...

It’s all here: The highs, the lows, the triumphs and tragedies — and, of course, the trousers. Even 30 years on, Rutles docu “All You Need Is Cash” endures as an insightful, breezily paced pic that ...

Time goes by, as we all know, naturally / People come and people go, naturally. English singer-songwriter Neil Innes wrote these lyrics for “Let’s Be Natural” in 1977 for the debut album by The Rutles ...

It was 35 years ago today … well, not exactly 35 years, but sometime in 1978 a group called the Rutles created the Beatles satire film, "All You Need is Cash." The mockumentary, which followed the the ...

Two elements led to the creation of The Rutles. In 1975, Eric Idle was spearheading a British television program called Rutland Weekend Television. An image of a staid British reporter running after a ...