What Ron and I’ll do is probably to write some…

What Ron and I’ll do is probably to write some songs, you know, and sell them to people. We tried to write some for the Rolling Stones, and they’re probably gonna buy them.

Dirk McQuickly

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The story spread like wildfire in America. Many fans burned their albums. Many more burnt their fingers attempting to burn their albums. Album sales sky-rocketed. People were buying them just to burn them. But in fact, it was all a ghastly mistake: Nasty, talking to a slightly deaf journalist, had claimed only that the Rutles were bigger than Rod. Rod Stewart would not be big for another 8 years. - View Quote Details on The story spread like wildfire in America. Many fans burned…
It was to this small backroom, when Nasty, Dirk, Stig, Barry and Leppo came to relax, when they weren’t upstairs, entertaining the other rats dining in the other Rat Keller. Here, they had bed and breakfast. There’s the bed. The breakfast, of course, long since gone. Rodently chewed, mouse-masticated, in a word: eaten by rats. - View Quote Details on It was to this small backroom, when Nasty, Dirk, Stig,…
I’m actually standing outside the actual hotel in which the Rutles actually stayed, in 1964. Actually, in this room here. And it was actually inside this actual room that I actually spoke to the actual Paul Simon. - View Quote Details on I’m actually standing outside the actual hotel in which the…
Barry, meanwhile, had also spent a year in bed, as a tax dodge. Eric Manchester thinks he’d either received appalling financial advice, or he was desperately trying to start a “Barry is also dead” rumour. - View Quote Details on Barry, meanwhile, had also spent a year in bed, as…
But while the Rutles sat at the feet of the Surrey Mystic, fate dealt them an appalling blow. It was here that they learned the shocking news of their manager. Leggy Mountbatten, tired and despondent over the weekend and unable to raise any friends, went home and tragically…accepted a teaching post in Australia. - View Quote Details on But while the Rutles sat at the feet of the…
At the end of it, they met Bob Dylan in the idyllic San Francisco of the mid-60’s, and he introduced them to a strange substance that was to have an enormous effect on them: Tea. Despite the warnings that it would lead to stronger things, the Rutles enjoyed the pleasant effects of tea. And it influenced enormously their greatest work, “Sgt. Rutter”. - View Quote Details on At the end of it, they met Bob Dylan in…
Sixteen years after the fresh-faced Pre-fab Four first burst into the public eye, and 8 years after they split up, just where are the Rutles today? Dirk has formed, with his wife Martini, a punk rock group, called “The Punk Floyd”. He sings, and she doesn’t. Nasty has turned his back on the world, and sits with his thoughts and his memories. Barry is a hairdresser in the Reading area, with two fully equipped salons of his own. While Stig works for Air India. As an air hostess. - View Quote Details on Sixteen years after the fresh-faced Pre-fab Four first burst into…
In the midst of all this public bickering, “Let It Rot” was released as a film, an album and a lawsuit. In 1970, Dirk sued Stig, Nasty and Barry. Barry sued Dirk, Nasty and Stig. Nasty sued Barry, Dirk and Stig, and Stig sued himself, accidentally. It was the beginning of a golden era for lawyers. But for the Rutles, live on a London rooftop, it was the beginning of the end. - View Quote Details on In the midst of all this public bickering, “Let It…
At the final meeting, 134 legal people and accountants, filed into a small 8×10 room. Only 87 came out alive. The black hole of Savile Row had taken toll of some of the finest merchant banking brains of the generation. Luckily, that’s not very serious. But the Rutles were obviously self-destructing fast. - View Quote Details on At the final meeting, 134 legal people and accountants, filed…
It’s significant that their first major flop, the “Tragical History Tour”, immediately followed the loss of Leggy. It was not the strongest idea for a Rutles film: Four Oxford history professors on a hitch-hiking tour of teashops in the Rutland area, and it was slammed mercilessly by the press. - View Quote Details on It’s significant that their first major flop, the “Tragical History…