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Workin' up a fever in a one-horse town
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Was a jockey by the name of Joe
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He didn't have a lot of what
you might call luck
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But he had a lot of get up n' go
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Get up n' go
Get up n' go
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Get up n' go back home
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The Rutles story is a legend.
A living legend...
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...a legend that will live long after
lots of other living legends have died.
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Tonight we are extremely proud to present
the semi-legendary life story of the prefab four:
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Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry who made the
sixties what they are today. The fabulous Rutles.
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Tall in the saddle in a one-horse town
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Joey knew someday he'd hit the road
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He traded with a dealer for a pick-up truck
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And he went looking for a medium load
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Get up n' go
Get up n' go
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Get up n' go back home
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Get up n' go
Get up n' go
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Get up n' go back home
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From these streets, very close
to the Cavern Rutland...
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...came the fabulous "Rutland sound",
created by the prefab four:
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Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry...
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...who created a musical legend,
that will last a lunchtime.
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They were discovered by their
manager, 'Leggy Mountbatten'...
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...in a lunchtime disco
very close to these streets.
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Their first album was made in 20 minutes,
the second took even longer.
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Tonight we examine the legend of The Rutles.
We look at their lives, their loves, their music.
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We examine some of the problems that
made them what they are today.
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And we shall also be asking some of the
people who worked with them...
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...if they were really the sort of lovable
people they were made out to be.
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We shall be asking many people who
knew them what they were really like.
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Yes, tonight we examine the entire legend
of The Rutles.
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But where did the story start?
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The answer is:
Right here!
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For on this very spot...
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...Ron Nasty and Dirk McQuickly
first bumped into each other.
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At this precise point...
...just a few feet back here...
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...Ron Nasty invited Dirk
to help him stand up.
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Dirk, merely an amateur drinker, agreed.
And here...well, a few feet back there...
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...a musical legend was created.
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They were soon joined by their guitarist, Stig
O'Hara, a school-leaver of no fixed hairstyle.
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But it would not be for another two years...
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...before they found their drummer,
Barrington Womble, hiding in the van.
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When they did, they persuaded him to
change his name, to save time...
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...and his haircut, to save Brylcreem.
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He became simply
Barry Wom.
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Goose-steppin' Mama
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Undercover charge
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Goose-step Mama
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Taken by an' large
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While you tinker with some tailor
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Someone sold yer to a sailor
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Goose-step Mama, oh yeah!
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Goose-step Mama
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Goose-step Mama
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Boogie all night long
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Goose-step Mama
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You can do no wrong
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You know how to reassemble
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Clumsy hands and knees that tremble
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Goose-step Mama, oh yeah!
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Goose-step Mama
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In October 1961 Leggy Mountbatten,
a retail chemist from Bolton, entered their lives.
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Leggy had lost a leg in the RAF
in the closing over's of WW2...
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...and had been hopping around
Liverpool ever since.
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As a child, Leggy's mother never allowed
him to play with the other little boys.
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His father was so snobby,
he wore swimming trunks in the bath...
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...to stop him looking down on
the unemployed.
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But it was here, in Liverpool th...
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But it was in Liverpool, that we spoke with
Leggy's mother, Mrs. Iris Mountbatten.
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Well, he told me that he'd been to see
these young men in a dark cellar.
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Yes?!
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He was always very interested
in young men...
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Oh, yes.
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Youth clubs, Boy Scouts,
that sort of things...
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Yes...
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But... these, he said, were different...
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In what way?
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Well... their hair and...
...their presence...
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...and their music...
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He liked it?
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No, he hated it.
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Well, what did he like?
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Well...
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...the trousers...
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What about their trousers?
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Well... they were...
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...they were very... tight.
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Tight?
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- Yes, you could see quite clearly...
- Oh, I see!
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...everything...
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...outlines... clear as day...
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Yes, yes, thank you, yes.
So... tight trousers and...
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- Nothing left to the imagination.
- Yes, thank you...
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I am standing in the world's naughtiest street,
the notorious Reeperbahn, Hamburg.
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For four hungry working class lads...
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...there are worse places than prison...
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...and the Rat Keller, Hamburg
is one of these.
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This is where they found themselves...
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...far from home and far from talented.
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Inside here is where they actually played.
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Come with me now inside, or...
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...as the Germans say,
"mit mir gekommen inside".
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In those early days,
there was a fifth Rutle, Leppo...
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...a friend of Nasty's
from art college...
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...who mainly used to stand at the back.
He couldn't play the guitar...
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...but he knew how to have a good time,
and in Hamburg that was more important.
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I am standing in the original Rat Keller,
and indeed these are some of the original rats.
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It was to this small back room that
Dirk, Stig, Nasty, Barry, and Leppo...
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...came to relax when they weren't upstairs...
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...entertaining the other rats
dining in the other Rat Keller.
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Here they had bed & breakfast. There's the bed,
the breakfast, of course, long since gone...
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...rodently chewed, mouse-masticated,
in a word: Eaten by rats.
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Here, one weekend, Leppo crawled
into a small trunk...
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...with a small German Fraulein
and was never seen again.
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Incidentally, Rat Keller means literally,
in German, cellar of rats.
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That's not seller of rats, a seller of rats,
a person...
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...who sells rats for a living to another man
as it were, of course not.
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That means a cellar full of rats.
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Indeed, one might say that this
was a cellar full of Rattles.
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In October 19... ah... err... hello?
Oh dear, there's a rat up my leg.
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In October 1961 Leggy was busy hopping round
London, trying to sell their tapes.
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Well, one day, this rather odd chap
hopped into the office... he'd...
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...he'd been to see virtually everyone
in the business and been shown the door.
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He asked to see my door,
but I... I wouldn't show it to him.
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Instead, he showed me the photographs,
and the tapes of The Rutles.
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They were pretty rough, but...
...they had something.
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What was it?
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I think it was the trousers...
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Well, I liked the trousers right away...
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...well, I mean, I've been in the garment trade...
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...and I knew a thing or two about in-things
and these were winners.
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Dick Jaws, an unemployed music publisher
of no fixed ability...
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...signed them up for the rest of their lives.
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Lucky, really...
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Number One, Number One
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You're my Number One
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You're my second-to-none
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Number One, Number One
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Leggy Mountbatten in his autobiography,
"A Cellar Full Of Goys"...
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...wrote of the excitement of those early days...
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...when they rode the go-kart to fame...
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...and took the ferry across the Mersey
to a land of riches, wealth, and heartache.
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Leggy put them into suits...
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...he put them into the recording studio,
and he put them into the newspapers.
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For The Rutles,
success was only a drumbeat away.
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I'm looking at you
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You're looking at me
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Between us, it's oh, so easy to see
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We were made for each other, girl
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We were made for each other
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Between us
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Love has begun
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Between us
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Two hearts are one
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Between us
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Nothing can come between us
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Whatever we do
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Whenever we kiss
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Between you and me,
it's not hit n' miss
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We were made for each other, girl
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We were made for each other
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Between us
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Love has begun
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Between us
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They chased me... and they caught me...
...and they beat me up.
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Who did?
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Those little girls...
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One of them screamed in me ear.
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Between us
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Nothing can come
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Nothing can come between us
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I asked Mick Jagger, when he first
became aware of The Rutles.
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We were living in, you know,
squalor and we didn't have any money...
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...and there were the Rutles on the TV,
with girls chasing them, we thought...
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"This can't be that difficult",
so we thought we'd have a go ourselves.
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What's your ambition?
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I'd like to be a hairdresser...
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...or two...
I'd like to be two hairdressers.
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The first time I met The Rutles,
they came down to see us at Richmond and they...
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...and we were just completing a number
and all of a sudden they were standing there...
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...in their black suits,
they had just come off a TV show.
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And they were just standing there...
sort of... checking us out, the opposition...
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And then they introduced themselves...
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...Dirk, Stig, Nasty, Barry.
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I'd like to own a squadron of tanks...
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They were very nice, you know...
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...because they'd heard about us...
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...because we were the south's answer to
The Rutles, you know, at that time.
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What Ron and I will do is probably to write
some songs, you know, and sell them to people.
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We tried to write some for the Rolling Stones
and they're probably going to buy them.
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The one for that was Dirk, really.
He was a real hustler for the songs, I think,
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...always wanting to sell a song, you know...
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...for anyone and anything and any old slag
he'd sell a song to, right once...
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...and they came down, they came down...
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...and we were trying to rehearse
and they said: "Do you want a song?"
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And we said: "Yeah we're always really open
for songs" because we didn't write our own.
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And of course The Rutles were always well known
for their hit-making potential... ability.
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And so, they ran around the corner to the pub,
to write this song, and came back with it...
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and played it to us, and...
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...it was horrible...
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...and so we never bothered to record it.
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It was a busy week for the prefab four,
as the fever of Rutlemania rolls over England.
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Monday saw them arriving for a civic reception
given by the mayor incorporation of Liverpool,
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to say "Thank You" to it's famous four sons.
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On Tuesday, Rutlemania
comes to London...
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...as Rutles fans jammed Piccadilly Circus
and bring London's traffic to a standstill.
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Nobody's seen anything quite like this
since the war.
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Look out girls,
here come The Rutles!
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...and for some, the event is clearly too much!
...Oh well, she's safe in the arms of the law.
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First to arrive is Rutles' fan
Princess Margaret...
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...escorted by her husband,
Lord Snowdon, Tony Armstrong Jones.
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Her Majesty herself is there to greet The Rutles
on this royal glittering occasion...
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...the Annual Royal Command Performance.
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Thank you very much,
thank you!
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And now we'd like to do a number dedicated
to a very special lady in the audience tonight...
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...Barry's mum!
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And now, without anymore ado,
here's your own, your very own...
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...Dirk McQuickly!
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Shoot me down in flames if I should tell a lie
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Cross my heart I promise that it's true
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I've been in love so many times before
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but never with a girl like you
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With a girl like you
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to hold and be beside
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With a girl like you
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to fill my heart with pride and joy
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With a girl like you
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I know where I belong
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With a girl like you
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I know I can be strong, you know
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I won't bring you any pain
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I won't run around again
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There'll be nothing to explain
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with a girl like you
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The Queen too is a Rutles' fan.
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And she enjoyed the performance so much...
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...that on Wednesday they went back
to her place to receive MBE's.
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Well done lads!
England's proud of you!
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- It must have been a great honour meeting
the Queen? - Yeah, it must have been...
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- What did she ask you?
- She asked us who we were.
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What did you say?
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I said I was him.
243
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I felt more like him than me...
244
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- Do you feel better after seeing the Queen?
- No, you feel better after seeing the doctor...
245
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- Not my doctor, you don't.
- Not your doctor, no.
246
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- What are you going to do now?
- Back to your place!
247
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But all rest and no play
makes Rutles dull boys...
248
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...and on Thursday they fly to America, to see
if they were more than nine day wonders.
249
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They needn't have worried:
America loves Rutles, too!
250
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In many cases even more...
251
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Ten thousand girls are here...
252
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...to say hello to these four guys from Liverpool.
253
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It was the most famous arrival on these shores
since Christopher Columbus.
254
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After briefly greeting the press,
they drive into the heart of Manhattan...
255
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...to get their first glimpse of New York.
256
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"It's Rutles day in Flushing,
Ladies and Gentlemen..."
257
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Yeah, he's good this guy, he is,
he's called Murray "The K".
258
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Bit soft in the head, it sounds like...
259
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Come on! Flushing Animals!
260
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What do you want to know?
What do you want to hear?
261
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If you call me up at 555-21-60 and say
you wanna hear anything but the Rutles...
262
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...I'm gonna come lookin' for ya!
263
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I mean it! Because it's Rutles day...
264
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...they're going to be here tomorrow,
talking about their trousers...
265
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...it's a big, big day
here in Flushing!
266
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Let's give 'em a big round of applause!
I know I can't hear you...
267
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...but I know I can pick up what
you're saying, bay-bee!
268
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The scene is here
in Flushing!
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The whole world's eyes
are on Flushing!
270
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Because the prefab four
are coming to town tomorrow...
271
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...to talk about their trousers...
272
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- I don't know about this, do you?
- No.
273
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And then it's back to the hotel
for a bit of fun and games!
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This is tea, you know we drink it.
275
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We put the water in the tea,
there's the tea, there.
276
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- And we pour it into the pot.
- One for Uncle Mamy and one for Auntie Betty.
277
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But it's all in a day's work for England's
ambassadors of musical fun, The Rutles.
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That's show business...
279
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I'm actually standing outside the actual hotel,
in which The Rutles actually stayed in 1964...
280
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...actually in this room, here.
And it was actually inside this actual room...
281
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...that I actually spoke
with the actual Paul Simon:
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Well, we saw the show and I remember
I saw Ed Sullivan was saying that...
283
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"People, calm down now,
everyone calm down", you know...
284
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...or "We can't hear" or some...
...some kind of silly warning you know...
285
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...and they, they opened the show,
I think, and they also closed the show...
286
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...which I thought was like a... an astute
planning on Sullivan's part, because...
287
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...it would made you very angry...
288
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...if you had to sit through the whole show
to wait to see The Rutles, you know, so they...
289
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...clearly, every-one had tuned in to that week's
show, just to see The Rutles.
290
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Now, yesterday and today
our theatre has been jammed...
291
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...with newspapermen and hundreds
of photographers from all over the nation...
292
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...and these veterans agreed with me...
293
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...that the city never has witnessed
the excitement stirred...
294
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...by these youngsters from Liverpool,
who call themselves The Rutles.
295
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Now tonight you're gonna
twice be entertained by them...
296
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...right now and again
in the second half of our show.
297
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Ladies and gentlemen: The Rutles!
Let's hear it, folks...
298
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I'm not the kind of guy who likes to play
299
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Big Brother
300
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But I've just seen your
date outside, he's with
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Another
302
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I saw you both come in
303
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And clearly, you're not meant for him, so
304
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Please, please, hold my hand
305
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Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
306
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Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
307
00:21:29,409 --> 00:21:33,109
Hold my hand and I'll see you home
308
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I want to tell you I'm in love with you
309
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Completely
310
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I'd like to take you far away from here
311
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Discreetly
312
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Our love was meant to be
313
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And darling, it's a certainty, oh
314
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Please, please, hold my hand
315
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Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
316
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Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
317
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Hold my hand and I'll see you home
318
00:22:11,009 --> 00:22:13,609
Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
319
00:22:13,809 --> 00:22:16,709
Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
320
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Hold my hand and I'll see you home
321
00:23:04,209 --> 00:23:08,109
The Rutles music meanwhile had been
attracting respectable critical attention:
322
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'The London Times' called it
"The best since Schubert".
323
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Sir Brian Morrison has been
Regis professor of music...
324
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...at the University of Oxford
for the past thirty years.
325
00:23:18,209 --> 00:23:22,709
We asked him: "Just how good,
musically, were The Rutles?"
326
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Stanley J. Krammerhead III, Jr
is an occasional visiting...
327
00:23:28,709 --> 00:23:33,209
...professor of Applied Narcotics
at the University of Please-Yourself, California.
328
00:23:33,309 --> 00:23:36,209
He is also a keen historian of pop music.
329
00:23:36,309 --> 00:23:40,509
We asked him: "Just how good,
musically, were The Rutles?"
330
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Listen, look, very simply,
musicologically and ethnically...
331
00:23:45,009 --> 00:23:50,409
...these Rutles were essentially empirical
main-longuees, so they rhythmically radical...
332
00:23:50,509 --> 00:23:54,509
...yet verbally passé and temporarily
transcended lyrical content...
333
00:23:54,609 --> 00:24:00,709
...welded with historically innovative melodical
material, transposed and transmogrified...
334
00:24:00,809 --> 00:24:04,909
...by the angst of the Rutland ethic
experience, which elevated them...
335
00:24:05,009 --> 00:24:10,509
...from essentially alpha exponents of, in essence
merely beta potential harmonic material...
336
00:24:10,609 --> 00:24:16,709
...into the prime cultural exponents
of Aeolian codensic cosmic stanza form.
337
00:24:16,909 --> 00:24:20,909
But he didn't really
tell us, either.
338
00:24:21,009 --> 00:24:27,309
So we went to New Orleans, to find out just
how expensive it is to make these documentaries.
339
00:24:29,609 --> 00:24:33,809
I'm standing by the banks of the Mississippi.
The First Na...
340
00:24:35,509 --> 00:24:41,509
I'm standing by the banks of the Mississippi,
in Louisiana, the cradle of the blues...
341
00:24:41,909 --> 00:24:45,509
That's black music
sung mainly by whites.
342
00:24:45,609 --> 00:24:50,009
And we're here to find out
the black origins of Rutle music.
343
00:24:50,109 --> 00:24:53,609
I spoke with Blind Lemon Pie.
344
00:24:53,809 --> 00:24:58,709
Well, everything I learned,
I learned from The Rutles.
345
00:24:58,809 --> 00:25:00,309
From The Rutles, really?
346
00:25:00,409 --> 00:25:03,209
Yes, everything!
347
00:25:03,509 --> 00:25:06,909
But surely you were singing the blues
back in the early thirties?
348
00:25:07,009 --> 00:25:10,209
No, I was working on the railroad...
349
00:25:10,309 --> 00:25:13,409
I worked on the railroad for
thirty years or more...
350
00:25:13,509 --> 00:25:20,109
...until I heard The Rutles.
And I decided, that that's my type of music!
351
00:25:20,709 --> 00:25:26,609
I'm gonna leave the railroad, and I became
a musician and I've been starving ever since...
352
00:25:27,109 --> 00:25:31,309
- So where did Rutle music originate?
- Next door...!
353
00:25:31,409 --> 00:25:34,709
- Next door?
- Next door, to Ruttling Orange Peel...
354
00:25:34,809 --> 00:25:42,009
Yes sir, I originated The Rutles.
They got it all from me. Every single bit of it...
355
00:25:42,109 --> 00:25:45,209
- Well how do you mean?
- Well sir, they come here...
356
00:25:45,309 --> 00:25:50,609
...and they took everything I ever written.
Those four guys from Liverpool came here...
357
00:25:50,709 --> 00:25:52,309
- He's lyin'!
- I ain't lyin'!
358
00:25:52,409 --> 00:25:55,309
- He's always lyin'!
- I ain't lyin'! I ain't lyin'!
359
00:25:55,409 --> 00:26:01,009
Every time there's a documentary on white music
around here, he claims he started it all...
360
00:26:01,109 --> 00:26:02,209
I did, I did, I did!
361
00:26:02,309 --> 00:26:06,109
Last week, he claimed
he started The Everly Brothers...
362
00:26:06,313 --> 00:26:11,782
- ...Frank Sinatra and Laurence Wells!
- I did, I did! - He's always lyin'!
363
00:26:12,609 --> 00:26:17,609
Well, we seem to be rather wasting our time
here in New Orleans,
364
00:26:17,709 --> 00:26:19,809
...despite the expense!
365
00:26:19,909 --> 00:26:22,509
Still... pretty, isn't it?
366
00:26:23,209 --> 00:26:25,509
Nasty had written and published
a bestselling book...
367
00:26:27,609 --> 00:26:30,309
Only one media
remained unconquered:...
368
00:26:30,409 --> 00:26:31,809
...The cinema!
369
00:26:31,909 --> 00:26:35,809
In 1965, "A Hard Day's Rut"
changed all that...
370
00:26:35,909 --> 00:26:37,209
I feel good
371
00:26:37,509 --> 00:26:39,009
I feel bad
372
00:26:39,209 --> 00:26:40,709
I feel happy
373
00:26:40,909 --> 00:26:42,109
I feel sad
374
00:26:42,309 --> 00:26:45,009
Am I in love?
375
00:26:45,109 --> 00:26:48,109
I must be in love
376
00:26:48,809 --> 00:26:50,309
I feel rich
377
00:26:50,509 --> 00:26:51,909
I feel poor
378
00:26:52,109 --> 00:26:53,709
I'm in doubt
379
00:26:53,909 --> 00:26:55,309
I feel sure
380
00:26:55,509 --> 00:26:58,109
Am I in love?
381
00:26:58,209 --> 00:27:01,109
I must be in love
382
00:27:03,309 --> 00:27:08,509
Any time of the day I can see
383
00:27:08,609 --> 00:27:13,509
Her face, when I close my eyes
384
00:27:15,109 --> 00:27:16,409
She's a dream
385
00:27:16,609 --> 00:27:17,909
She is real
386
00:27:18,109 --> 00:27:19,509
Can't explain
387
00:27:19,709 --> 00:27:21,109
How I feel
388
00:27:21,309 --> 00:27:24,109
Am I in love?
389
00:27:24,309 --> 00:27:27,209
I must be in love
390
00:27:42,509 --> 00:27:47,709
Any time of the day I can see
391
00:27:47,809 --> 00:27:52,709
Her face, when I close my eyes
392
00:27:54,109 --> 00:27:55,509
Am I dead
393
00:27:55,709 --> 00:27:57,209
Or alive?
394
00:27:57,409 --> 00:27:58,909
Can my poor heart
395
00:27:59,109 --> 00:28:00,309
Survive?
396
00:28:00,509 --> 00:28:03,309
Am I in love?
397
00:28:03,509 --> 00:28:06,309
I must be in love
398
00:28:07,209 --> 00:28:08,509
I feel good
399
00:28:08,709 --> 00:28:10,109
I feel bad
400
00:28:10,309 --> 00:28:11,909
I feel happy
401
00:28:12,109 --> 00:28:13,309
I feel sad
402
00:28:13,509 --> 00:28:16,109
Am I in love?
403
00:28:16,709 --> 00:28:19,509
I must be in love
404
00:28:19,709 --> 00:28:22,909
I must be in love
405
00:28:23,109 --> 00:28:26,109
I must be in love
406
00:28:26,309 --> 00:28:29,309
I must be in love
407
00:28:33,009 --> 00:28:35,509
Roger McGough
is a Liverpool poet.
408
00:28:35,609 --> 00:28:39,109
He's the author of many books
set in and around Liverpool...
409
00:28:39,209 --> 00:28:44,209
...including "Mersey Sound", "Gig", "The Liverpool
Scene" and two of his Liverpool poems are...
410
00:28:44,309 --> 00:28:47,609
...in the "The Oxford Book of
Twentieth Century's English Verse".
411
00:28:47,709 --> 00:28:51,909
He was born in Liverpool, attended school in
Liverpool, was even married in Liverpool...
412
00:28:52,009 --> 00:28:54,709
...and his football team is,
of course, Everton.
413
00:28:54,809 --> 00:28:57,309
He's a member of the "The Scaffold",
a light comedy group...
414
00:28:57,409 --> 00:28:59,909
...who played The Cavern
during the early sixties.
415
00:29:00,009 --> 00:29:06,309
And during those incredible years he lived, wrote,
loved, watched football and drank in Liverpool.
416
00:29:06,409 --> 00:29:10,109
- Roger, did you know The Rutles?
- Oh yes yes.
417
00:29:10,209 --> 00:29:17,309
Roger McGough, Liverpool poet, writer, author,
humorist, bon-vivre and a man who knew The Rutles!
418
00:29:18,009 --> 00:29:19,009
Australia...
419
00:29:19,709 --> 00:29:20,709
Canada...
420
00:29:21,109 --> 00:29:22,409
...Schiffelbach... äh, Cleveland:
421
00:29:22,909 --> 00:29:27,909
The Rutles were now world-wide successes.
They'd rubbed shoulders with the great...
422
00:29:28,009 --> 00:29:32,509
...their pictures were everywhere.
Their names endorsed a thousand products:...
423
00:29:32,609 --> 00:29:36,809
From tee-shirts to garter belts
to pillowcases...
424
00:29:36,909 --> 00:29:39,609
Leggy was besieged by merchandisers.
425
00:29:39,709 --> 00:29:43,709
We felt every girl in America
is gonna to want to sleep with a Rutle.
426
00:29:43,809 --> 00:29:47,409
Yes, we have a complete line of Rutles
products all ready to go.
427
00:29:47,509 --> 00:29:51,618
The Rutle tee-shirt, the Rutle plate, the Rutle
cup, the Rutle acne cream, the Rutle hairclips...
428
00:29:51,915 --> 00:29:56,395
...all a complete line of Rutles products,
and all I need from you is just your word and...
429
00:29:56,495 --> 00:29:58,209
- ...we're in business.
- We're in business?
430
00:29:58,309 --> 00:29:59,709
I like the way you work.
431
00:29:59,809 --> 00:30:04,609
Brian Thigh was a top record
executive in London in 1962.
432
00:30:04,709 --> 00:30:10,549
Mr. Thigh, you've been known for many, many
years as the man who turned down The Rutles.
433
00:30:13,776 --> 00:30:14,979
Yeah, that's right.
434
00:30:15,094 --> 00:30:18,009
You said, guitar groups
were on the way out and...
435
00:30:18,109 --> 00:30:22,809
...would never make any money
at all in the sixties.
436
00:30:23,809 --> 00:30:25,509
Yes, I did.
437
00:30:25,609 --> 00:30:31,009
You turned your back on all those millions
of sales, all those hundreds of gold records...
438
00:30:33,348 --> 00:30:35,671
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
439
00:30:36,181 --> 00:30:38,705
- What's it like to be such an asshole?
- What?!
440
00:30:38,805 --> 00:30:41,848
Some people say you've been staying away
from Liverpool, now you're famous?
441
00:30:41,948 --> 00:30:44,698
No, we haven't been staying away
so much as not coming here.
442
00:30:44,798 --> 00:30:47,334
Some people say it's six months
since you came back here?
443
00:30:47,434 --> 00:30:50,917
- Well, that's the sort of thing some people would
say. - Nevertheless, it has been six months.
444
00:30:51,017 --> 00:30:52,976
Now you're saying it... why don't
you ask me where I've been?
445
00:30:53,076 --> 00:30:55,424
- Where have you been?
- I'm not telling you.
446
00:30:57,709 --> 00:31:00,909
I grew up in the country
447
00:31:01,009 --> 00:31:03,209
Beside a chicken shack
448
00:31:03,309 --> 00:31:05,309
So I left for the city
449
00:31:05,409 --> 00:31:07,709
And I didn't look back
450
00:31:07,809 --> 00:31:09,209
Now, I'm livin' in hope
451
00:31:09,309 --> 00:31:10,509
Livin' in hope
452
00:31:10,609 --> 00:31:11,909
I'm livin' in hope
453
00:31:12,009 --> 00:31:12,984
Livin' in hope
454
00:31:13,084 --> 00:31:14,509
Yes, I'm livin' in hope
455
00:31:14,609 --> 00:31:16,609
Livin' in hope
456
00:31:16,709 --> 00:31:22,109
At the height of Rutlemania in 1965,
their drummer Barry Wom, the noisy one...
457
00:31:22,209 --> 00:31:26,509
...returned home to Liverpool,
to marry his childhood sweet-heart.
458
00:31:26,609 --> 00:31:29,509
The church was packed with Rutle fans...
459
00:31:29,609 --> 00:31:33,909
...all of whom wanted to
get a close look at The Rutles.
460
00:31:39,709 --> 00:31:45,309
Inside the dimly lit, crowded church
Barry got separated from his fiancé...
461
00:31:45,409 --> 00:31:48,709
...and ended up with a different bride.
462
00:31:58,409 --> 00:32:03,609
In the confusion, Barry's bride-to-be, twenty-
three year old butchers apprentice Brenda Liola...
463
00:32:03,709 --> 00:32:07,009
...was accidentally married to
a party of Scotsmen from Hull...
464
00:32:07,109 --> 00:32:09,309
...inspiring Barry's haunting ballad:
465
00:32:09,409 --> 00:32:13,509
"When you find the girl of your dreams in
the arms of some Scotsmen from Hull".
466
00:32:13,709 --> 00:32:15,209
Barry was heart-broken...
467
00:32:15,709 --> 00:32:19,709
...but when he looked up and saw
who he'd married, he soon cheered up.
468
00:32:22,209 --> 00:32:26,709
Welcome back! And it's from Liverpool
that we go immediately to London...
469
00:32:28,209 --> 00:32:30,809
Hello, London here...
470
00:32:30,909 --> 00:32:37,109
...and it's from London that we go to Switzerland,
to The Rutles second movie "Ouch!"
471
00:32:37,209 --> 00:32:42,209
Filmed in colour, on location,
very expensively NOT in London...
472
00:32:42,309 --> 00:32:43,409
Ouch!
473
00:32:43,509 --> 00:32:44,809
You're breakin' my heart
474
00:32:44,909 --> 00:32:46,009
Ouch!
475
00:32:46,109 --> 00:32:47,309
I'm fallin' apart
476
00:32:47,409 --> 00:32:48,509
Ouch!
477
00:32:48,609 --> 00:32:51,209
Ow, ow, Ouch!
478
00:32:52,309 --> 00:32:53,709
When we first met
479
00:32:53,809 --> 00:32:57,209
I must admit I fell
for you right from the start
480
00:32:57,309 --> 00:33:01,909
I must admit I fell
for you right from the start
481
00:33:02,009 --> 00:33:03,309
Now when we meet
482
00:33:03,409 --> 00:33:06,709
All kinds of things
it seems upset the apple cart
483
00:33:06,909 --> 00:33:11,309
All kinds of things
it seems upset the apple cart
484
00:33:11,409 --> 00:33:12,409
Ouch!
485
00:33:12,509 --> 00:33:13,509
Don't desert me
486
00:33:13,609 --> 00:33:14,709
Ouch!
487
00:33:14,809 --> 00:33:16,109
Please don't hurt me
488
00:33:16,209 --> 00:33:17,309
Ouch!
489
00:33:17,409 --> 00:33:20,109
Ow, ow, Ouch!
490
00:33:20,809 --> 00:33:22,209
What is this thing
491
00:33:22,309 --> 00:33:25,909
Called love why do they say
it makes the world go 'round?
492
00:33:26,109 --> 00:33:30,209
Called love why do they say
it makes the world go 'round?
493
00:33:30,309 --> 00:33:31,709
I can't explain
494
00:33:31,809 --> 00:33:35,409
The way I feel for you,
my feet don't touch the ground
495
00:33:35,609 --> 00:33:39,909
The way I feel for you,
my feet don't touch the ground
496
00:33:40,009 --> 00:33:41,109
Ouch!
497
00:33:41,209 --> 00:33:42,309
Don't desert me
498
00:33:42,409 --> 00:33:43,384
Ouch!
499
00:33:43,484 --> 00:33:44,709
Please don't hurt me
500
00:33:44,809 --> 00:33:45,909
Ouch!
501
00:33:46,009 --> 00:33:48,709
Ow, ow, Ouch!
502
00:33:49,709 --> 00:33:50,709
When we first met
503
00:33:50,809 --> 00:33:54,809
I must admit I fell
for you right from the start
504
00:33:54,909 --> 00:33:59,409
I must admit I fell
for you right from the start
505
00:33:59,509 --> 00:34:00,809
Now when we meet
506
00:34:00,909 --> 00:34:04,809
All kinds of things
it seems upset the apple cart
507
00:34:05,009 --> 00:34:09,009
All kinds of things
it seems upset the apple cart
508
00:34:09,109 --> 00:34:10,309
Ouch!
509
00:34:10,409 --> 00:34:11,409
Don't desert me
510
00:34:11,509 --> 00:34:12,484
Ouch!
511
00:34:12,584 --> 00:34:13,709
Please don't hurt me
512
00:34:13,809 --> 00:34:15,009
Ouch!
513
00:34:15,109 --> 00:34:17,709
Ow, ow, Ouch!
514
00:34:18,609 --> 00:34:19,709
Ouch!
515
00:34:19,809 --> 00:34:20,909
Don't desert me
516
00:34:21,009 --> 00:34:22,009
Ouch!
517
00:34:22,109 --> 00:34:23,209
Please don't hurt me
518
00:34:23,309 --> 00:34:24,509
Ouch!
519
00:34:24,609 --> 00:34:27,209
Ow, ow, Ouch!
520
00:34:31,009 --> 00:34:36,509
Ché Stadium! Named after the
Cuban guerilla leader, Ché Stadium...
521
00:34:36,609 --> 00:34:43,009
...and it was here, in 1965, that The Rutles came,
well, not here in the car park, obviously...
522
00:34:43,109 --> 00:34:50,609
...but back there, in the stadium, that The Rutles
came in 1965 to a capacity house, a sell-out.
523
00:34:50,809 --> 00:34:54,409
The thing I remember about it is them
running out into the middle of this field...
524
00:34:54,509 --> 00:34:58,309
...and you couldn't see them, there they were,
like, you know, just miles away...
525
00:34:58,409 --> 00:35:02,109
There... is it really The Rutles?
It might be somebody else...
526
00:35:05,709 --> 00:35:10,209
There was no one in my life till I met you
527
00:35:11,409 --> 00:35:15,809
You brought me love and taught me how to smile
528
00:35:15,909 --> 00:35:20,009
You picked me up when I was feeling blue
529
00:35:20,909 --> 00:35:24,709
From now on my future is worthwhile
530
00:35:25,009 --> 00:35:27,309
It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
531
00:35:27,509 --> 00:35:29,809
It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
532
00:35:30,009 --> 00:35:32,909
It's lookin' good!
533
00:35:35,109 --> 00:35:39,209
Now that you have given me reason to live
534
00:35:40,309 --> 00:35:44,009
I will stay forever by your side
535
00:35:45,209 --> 00:35:49,109
And give you all the lovin' I can give
536
00:35:50,509 --> 00:35:53,409
Just say the word and be my bride
537
00:35:54,209 --> 00:35:56,409
It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
538
00:35:56,609 --> 00:35:58,709
It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
539
00:35:58,909 --> 00:36:01,909
It's lookin' good!
540
00:36:04,709 --> 00:36:09,009
I'm not throwing caution to the winds, oh no
541
00:36:09,309 --> 00:36:12,909
Love is not an easy game to play
542
00:36:14,209 --> 00:36:18,609
Though I may not be a man of words, yeah, yeah
543
00:36:18,709 --> 00:36:22,709
There is one thing I feel obliged to say
544
00:36:23,009 --> 00:36:25,209
It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
545
00:36:25,409 --> 00:36:27,509
It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
546
00:36:27,709 --> 00:36:30,609
It's lookin' good
547
00:36:51,309 --> 00:36:52,809
You couldn't hear anything...
548
00:36:52,909 --> 00:36:54,909
How long did they play?
549
00:36:55,009 --> 00:36:59,309
About twenty minutes... and that was it...
...off...helicopter...
550
00:36:59,509 --> 00:37:03,809
...back to the Warwick Hotel...
...two birds each...
551
00:37:04,209 --> 00:37:08,109
In 1966 The Rutles faced the
biggest threat to their careers:
552
00:37:08,209 --> 00:37:10,209
Nasty, in a widely quoted interview...
553
00:37:10,309 --> 00:37:13,509
...apparently had claimed that
The Rutles were bigger than God...
554
00:37:13,609 --> 00:37:18,109
...and had gone on to say that God
had never had a hit record.
555
00:37:21,809 --> 00:37:24,909
The story spread like
wildfire in America.
556
00:37:25,009 --> 00:37:26,509
Many fans burnt their albums...
557
00:37:26,609 --> 00:37:29,509
...many more burnt their fingers,
attempting to burn their albums.
558
00:37:29,609 --> 00:37:34,809
Album sales sky-rocketed, people
were buying them, just to burn them...
559
00:37:34,909 --> 00:37:38,109
But in fact, it was all a ghastly mistake.
560
00:37:38,209 --> 00:37:40,809
Nasty, talking to a
slightly deaf journalist...
561
00:37:40,909 --> 00:37:44,809
...had claimed only that The Rutles
were bigger than Rod.
562
00:37:44,909 --> 00:37:48,809
Rod Steward would not be big
for another eight years.
563
00:37:48,909 --> 00:37:52,309
That's all I said, you know,
now all this has to happen...
564
00:37:52,409 --> 00:37:55,609
- What do you think it proves?
- I think, it proves you're all daft!
565
00:37:55,709 --> 00:37:57,909
I suppose I'll get into trouble
for saying that now?!
566
00:37:58,009 --> 00:38:02,209
Nasty apologised to God, Rod and the press
and the tour went ahead as planned...
567
00:38:02,309 --> 00:38:03,909
...but it would be The Rutles last.
568
00:38:04,009 --> 00:38:06,511
We will be playing all the places
where we're supposed to play...
569
00:38:06,611 --> 00:38:09,461
...and we hope we can, you know, bring ah...
570
00:38:09,609 --> 00:38:13,109
...a bit of, you know,
je ne sais quoi to America, again.
571
00:38:13,209 --> 00:38:18,309
At the end of it they met Bob Dylan
in the idyllic San Francisco of the mid-sixties.
572
00:38:18,409 --> 00:38:23,609
And he introduced them to a strange substance,
which was to have an enormous affect on them:
573
00:38:23,709 --> 00:38:24,509
TEA!
574
00:38:36,409 --> 00:38:38,909
Despite warnings that it would
lead to stronger things...
575
00:38:39,009 --> 00:38:41,909
...The Rutles enjoyed the
pleasant effects of TEA...
576
00:38:42,009 --> 00:38:47,809
...and it influenced enormously
their greatest work: Sgt. Rutters.
577
00:38:50,709 --> 00:38:55,609
Of course, the main thing that comes to my mind
with the Sgt. Rutter album is...
578
00:38:55,709 --> 00:38:59,409
...getting stoned and listening to it
with the earphones, you know.
579
00:38:59,509 --> 00:39:02,809
Particularly the, you know, the chord
that lasted forever, you know...
580
00:39:02,909 --> 00:39:06,609
The release of this album,
a millstone in pop music history...
581
00:39:06,709 --> 00:39:11,609
...contributed greatly to an idyllic summer of
bells, flowers, and tea drinking.
582
00:39:11,709 --> 00:39:16,409
It's music led thousands to
experiment with TEA.
583
00:39:19,409 --> 00:39:24,409
Eventually, even the press found out
and offered Dirk the chance to deny it:
584
00:39:24,509 --> 00:39:28,609
It's not up to me, if you come
and ask me, I'm going to tell you the truth!
585
00:39:28,709 --> 00:39:31,709
Because it is the truth,
I have had tea...
586
00:39:31,809 --> 00:39:36,109
Lots of tea... Indian tea...
...and biscuits...
587
00:39:37,309 --> 00:39:41,909
Dirk's admission created a scandal, the press
grabbed hold of the wrong end of the stick...
588
00:39:42,009 --> 00:39:45,209
...and started to beat about the bush with it.
589
00:39:49,009 --> 00:39:53,109
Many pop-stars were arrested
for using and possessing TEA.
590
00:39:53,209 --> 00:39:56,909
Nasty himself was busted by
Detective Inspector Brian Plant...
591
00:39:57,009 --> 00:40:01,009
...who brought his own,
to be on the safe side.
592
00:40:01,409 --> 00:40:03,569
There was an immediate outcry
against this police-persecution...
593
00:40:03,669 --> 00:40:09,309
...and the London TIMES carried a full page
petition, calling for the legalization of TEA.
594
00:40:18,309 --> 00:40:20,809
The Rutles, meanwhile,
appeared live on TV...
595
00:40:20,909 --> 00:40:26,309
...before a worldwide audience of 200 million
with a song that expressed the feeling of the age.
596
00:40:26,409 --> 00:40:28,709
Tea was on every-one's lips...
597
00:40:28,809 --> 00:40:31,809
...In your own time
Love Life
598
00:40:31,909 --> 00:40:33,109
To live is to live...
599
00:40:37,909 --> 00:40:41,209
Where there's a will, there's a way
600
00:40:41,409 --> 00:40:44,609
Love is the meaning of life
601
00:40:44,809 --> 00:40:48,209
Life is the meaning of love
602
00:40:48,509 --> 00:40:50,609
Love Life
603
00:40:50,809 --> 00:40:53,009
Love Life
604
00:40:53,309 --> 00:40:55,309
Love Life
605
00:40:55,609 --> 00:40:57,809
Love Life
606
00:41:10,209 --> 00:41:13,209
Where there's a will, there's a way
607
00:41:13,409 --> 00:41:16,809
Love is the meaning of life
608
00:41:17,309 --> 00:41:20,409
Life is the meaning of love
609
00:41:20,509 --> 00:41:22,709
Love Life
610
00:41:22,909 --> 00:41:25,109
Love Life
611
00:41:25,209 --> 00:41:27,409
Love Life
612
00:41:27,809 --> 00:41:29,109
Love Life
613
00:41:29,309 --> 00:41:30,234
Everybody!
614
00:41:30,334 --> 00:41:32,309
Love Life
615
00:41:32,409 --> 00:41:33,709
Love Life
616
00:41:33,909 --> 00:41:34,909
Altogether now!
617
00:41:35,009 --> 00:41:36,809
Love Life
618
00:41:37,009 --> 00:41:39,209
Love Life
619
00:41:39,509 --> 00:41:41,509
Love is the meaning of life
620
00:41:41,609 --> 00:41:43,809
Life is the meaning of love
621
00:41:44,009 --> 00:41:46,009
Love is the meaning of life
622
00:41:46,109 --> 00:41:48,409
Life is the meaning of love
623
00:41:48,609 --> 00:41:50,809
Love is the meaning of life
624
00:41:51,009 --> 00:41:53,209
Life is the meaning of love
625
00:41:53,409 --> 00:41:55,509
Love is the meaning of life
626
00:41:55,709 --> 00:41:57,709
Life is the meaning of love
627
00:41:57,909 --> 00:41:59,809
Love is the meaning of life
628
00:41:59,909 --> 00:42:03,209
Hold my hand, yeah, yeah!
629
00:42:09,309 --> 00:42:15,109
A new form there, a slightly different form
there of choral music, with a slight difference.
630
00:42:15,209 --> 00:42:18,809
We'll be back with Prince Charles
in just a moment...
631
00:42:18,909 --> 00:42:23,009
"Love Life" is in many ways,
the high watermark of their careers.
632
00:42:23,709 --> 00:42:28,709
From here, the sands of time ebbed,
leaving them high'n dry on the beach of time...
633
00:42:28,909 --> 00:42:33,709
...as the tide of history rolled
relentlessly over them...
634
00:42:36,309 --> 00:42:40,209
For a start, Leggy Mountbatten
was rapidly becoming a worry:
635
00:42:40,309 --> 00:42:42,309
Always emotionally involved
with them...
636
00:42:42,409 --> 00:42:45,209
...he had far less to do
once they ceased touring.
637
00:42:45,309 --> 00:42:47,609
Of course he had other 'artistes'...
638
00:42:47,709 --> 00:42:49,309
The McKismo Brothers...
639
00:42:49,409 --> 00:42:51,509
Arthur Hodson and the Kneecaps...
640
00:42:51,809 --> 00:42:55,609
...as well as the French Beach Boys:
Les Garçons de la Plage.
641
00:42:55,909 --> 00:43:00,709
But his decision to put money
into bull-fighters, as a tax dodge...
642
00:43:00,809 --> 00:43:03,609
...plus his unusual personal life...
643
00:43:03,709 --> 00:43:08,409
...in California he'd been arrested for
giving the kiss of life to a rubber raft...
644
00:43:08,509 --> 00:43:11,909
...gave increasing grounds for concern.
645
00:43:12,009 --> 00:43:17,209
I asked Mick Jagger if he was aware
of these tendencies of Leggy's:
646
00:43:17,809 --> 00:43:23,809
Oh yeah... Leggy, yeah, you're kidding, hehe...
...Leggy got around a bit, you know...?
647
00:43:24,409 --> 00:43:29,259
And that was alright, you know, until
he started going off with the bull-fighters.
648
00:43:29,359 --> 00:43:31,609
I think, that...
649
00:43:31,709 --> 00:43:35,009
...that era, ...and then, I think, they got
a bit disenchanted with him...
650
00:43:35,109 --> 00:43:39,109
And he didn't know where to go, you know...
...you know, in his life, I think...
651
00:43:39,209 --> 00:43:42,409
...and they wanted to control
more of themselves, you know...
652
00:43:42,509 --> 00:43:48,109
Stig meanwhile had fallen under the influence
of Arthur Sultan, the 'Surrey Mystic'...
653
00:43:48,309 --> 00:43:52,609
...and Sultan had introduced Stig
to his Ouija board work.
654
00:43:53,709 --> 00:43:57,309
Arthur Sultan now invited The Rutles
on a getaway from it all:
655
00:43:57,409 --> 00:44:00,409
Table-tapping weekend near Bognor.
656
00:44:00,509 --> 00:44:04,209
As usual, the press followed...
657
00:44:07,809 --> 00:44:12,809
The Bognor thing was really funny, the "Bognor
Express" they called it in the newspapers.
658
00:44:12,909 --> 00:44:16,309
Someone was very late...
...one of the girls, they were always late...
659
00:44:16,409 --> 00:44:20,609
One of them, I can't remember who it was,
maybe it was Nasty...
660
00:44:20,709 --> 00:44:23,596
...thought, we were trying to get on the
Rutles bandwagon, you know...
661
00:44:23,696 --> 00:44:26,309
"The Rutles mystical bandwagon",
which wasn't true at all...
662
00:44:26,409 --> 00:44:27,533
We were just as eager to find out...
663
00:44:27,633 --> 00:44:30,809
...what was going on in this board-tapping
thing at Bognor as anybody.
664
00:44:39,409 --> 00:44:42,409
In this day and age
665
00:44:43,109 --> 00:44:46,109
Love is all the rage
666
00:44:47,109 --> 00:44:53,809
Life goes on,
it only goes to show
667
00:44:54,809 --> 00:44:57,909
It's not my cup of tea
668
00:44:58,209 --> 00:45:01,809
It's all the same to me
669
00:45:02,609 --> 00:45:07,209
For we are here today
and gone tomorrow...
670
00:45:07,309 --> 00:45:10,409
But while The Rutles sat
at the foot of the Surrey mystic...
671
00:45:10,509 --> 00:45:12,809
...fate dealt them an appalling blow.
672
00:45:12,909 --> 00:45:16,209
It was here that they learnt
the shocking news of their manager:
673
00:45:16,309 --> 00:45:19,609
Leggy Mountbatten, tired and
despondent over the weekend...
674
00:45:19,709 --> 00:45:24,709
...and unable to raise any friends,
went home and tragically...
675
00:45:24,809 --> 00:45:27,609
...accepted a teaching post
in Australia.
676
00:45:28,109 --> 00:45:33,009
It was a kind of funny weekend that,
and then of course at the end of it...
677
00:45:33,609 --> 00:45:36,672
...we found out that Leggy
had gone off to Australia...
678
00:45:36,772 --> 00:45:40,008
...which kind of put the mockers
on the whole thing, really.
679
00:45:40,109 --> 00:45:44,709
It was a bombshell for The Rutles.
They were shocked and stunned...
680
00:45:44,809 --> 00:45:48,809
- Well, we're shocked...
- Yes, shocked...
681
00:45:48,909 --> 00:45:51,109
Shocked...!
682
00:45:51,209 --> 00:45:52,409
...and stunned...
683
00:45:52,509 --> 00:45:55,609
...yes, stunned...
684
00:45:55,709 --> 00:45:57,609
Very stunned...
685
00:45:57,709 --> 00:46:01,609
Did Arthur Sultan have any words
of encouragement for you?
686
00:46:01,709 --> 00:46:04,209
- No...
- Well, yes!
687
00:46:04,309 --> 00:46:07,109
Well, yes and no...
688
00:46:07,709 --> 00:46:11,609
He said that it took all sorts
to make a world...
689
00:46:11,709 --> 00:46:16,609
...and that we shouldn't worry unduly
about were he'd gone...
690
00:46:16,709 --> 00:46:22,409
...You know... we shouldn't become covered with
grief at thoughts of Australia...
691
00:46:24,609 --> 00:46:25,809
...because...
692
00:46:25,909 --> 00:46:31,409
He did say that we could still keep in touch
with him, you know, by tapping the table.
693
00:46:32,209 --> 00:46:35,409
- And postcards...
- Yes...
694
00:46:38,209 --> 00:46:41,209
...very stunned...
695
00:46:41,709 --> 00:46:44,209
...very stunned!
696
00:46:51,209 --> 00:46:55,209
It's significant that their first major flop,
the 'Tragical History Tour'...
697
00:46:55,309 --> 00:47:00,209
...immediately followed the loss of Leggy.
It was not the strongest idea for a Rutles film...
698
00:47:00,309 --> 00:47:02,409
...four Oxford history professors...
699
00:47:02,509 --> 00:47:05,609
...on a hitch-hiking tour of TEA-shops
in the Rutland area...
700
00:47:05,709 --> 00:47:09,509
...and it was slammed
mercilously by the press.
701
00:47:09,609 --> 00:47:12,209
...Talk about a month of Sundays
702
00:47:12,309 --> 00:47:16,509
Toffee-nosed wet weekend as far as I can see
703
00:47:17,609 --> 00:47:20,509
Hey, diddle diddle
704
00:47:20,609 --> 00:47:23,509
The cat and the fiddle
705
00:47:23,609 --> 00:47:25,609
Piggy in the middle
706
00:47:25,709 --> 00:47:27,409
Do a poo-poo
707
00:47:27,509 --> 00:47:30,109
Bible punching heavyweight
708
00:47:30,209 --> 00:47:33,609
Evangelistic boxing kangaroo
709
00:47:36,109 --> 00:47:39,009
Orang-utan and anaconda
710
00:47:39,109 --> 00:47:43,209
Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, even Pluto, too
711
00:47:44,209 --> 00:47:47,209
Hey, diddle diddle
712
00:47:47,509 --> 00:47:50,409
The cat and the fiddle
713
00:47:50,509 --> 00:47:52,609
Piggy in the middle
714
00:47:52,709 --> 00:47:54,709
Do a poo-poo
715
00:47:54,809 --> 00:47:58,609
tekraaam ot tnew eiggip elttil siht
716
00:48:06,509 --> 00:48:17,109
One man's civilization
is another man's jungle, yeah
717
00:48:18,309 --> 00:48:21,809
They say revolution's in the air
718
00:48:21,909 --> 00:48:24,009
I'm dancing in my underwear
719
00:48:24,109 --> 00:48:27,009
'Cause I don't care
720
00:48:27,209 --> 00:48:30,309
Hey diddle diddle
721
00:48:30,409 --> 00:48:33,409
The cat and the fiddle
722
00:48:33,509 --> 00:48:35,509
Piggy in the middle
723
00:48:35,609 --> 00:48:38,609
Do a poo-poo
Do a poo-poo
724
00:49:15,609 --> 00:49:18,009
This little piggy went to market
725
00:49:18,209 --> 00:49:21,009
And this little piggy stayed home
726
00:49:21,109 --> 00:49:24,409
This little piggy had roast beef
727
00:49:24,609 --> 00:49:27,609
and this little piggy had none
728
00:49:27,809 --> 00:49:31,909
This little piggy went Wooo...oooo!
729
00:49:32,309 --> 00:49:35,209
All the way home
730
00:49:39,909 --> 00:49:42,409
This little piggy went to market...
731
00:49:45,309 --> 00:49:49,609
I'm sitting in a rented limousine
in New York. And it was here...
732
00:49:49,709 --> 00:49:52,409
...well, not in the limousine, obviously,
but in New York...
733
00:49:52,509 --> 00:49:57,609
that The Rutles came in 1968,
to announce the formation of Rutle Corp...
734
00:49:59,009 --> 00:50:03,409
We're here in New York to announce
the formation of Rutle Corp... eh...
735
00:50:03,509 --> 00:50:07,409
...Nasty and I have come over...
on behalf of the other Rutles...
736
00:50:07,509 --> 00:50:09,609
- Yes, they couldn't come...
- Yes...
737
00:50:09,709 --> 00:50:16,009
We're setting up Rutle Corp. as a kind
of enterprise that people can come to us...
738
00:50:16,109 --> 00:50:18,189
...and we'll help them...
...we'll give them money...
739
00:50:18,409 --> 00:50:20,709
You know, if they want money,
they just come to us...
740
00:50:20,909 --> 00:50:25,209
Yes, instead of going to a bank...
...we want to help people to help themselves...
741
00:50:25,409 --> 00:50:30,609
Rutle Corp did just that -
people helped themselves for years!
742
00:50:30,709 --> 00:50:34,309
At one stage, they were losing money faster
than the British Government.
743
00:50:34,509 --> 00:50:37,509
There are continued allegations
that Rutle Corp is going bankrupt.
744
00:50:37,909 --> 00:50:41,909
Eric Manchester, the Rutles press agent:
Are these allegations true?
745
00:50:42,109 --> 00:50:46,809
No, no, ...they're conjecture, you know...
...it's only a rumour...
746
00:50:47,109 --> 00:50:51,709
I think you'll find the way you get success,
...you always find this sort of rumour. No...
747
00:50:51,909 --> 00:50:54,709
So, the stories of the thefts...
they're not true, also?
748
00:50:54,909 --> 00:50:58,709
No... they're greatly exaggerated...
...greatly exaggerated...
749
00:50:58,809 --> 00:51:00,609
It's bad, you know...things are going...
750
00:51:00,709 --> 00:51:04,509
...but nothing like the rate,
that people indicate...
751
00:51:04,709 --> 00:51:08,019
The trouble is that people feel, because...
...because these boys are The Rutles...
752
00:51:08,119 --> 00:51:11,291
...people can come in and just help themselves
to whatever they want. And this is just not on...
753
00:51:11,391 --> 00:51:14,742
And we're putting a stop to this and we're
are doing, you know, it's almost dried up...
754
00:51:14,842 --> 00:51:19,239
...eh... things have gone...I wont deny it...
...television sets...
755
00:51:19,339 --> 00:51:22,709
...the odd car, belonging to the company
has...eh
756
00:51:22,809 --> 00:51:24,909
...has disappeared... But...
757
00:51:25,009 --> 00:51:28,309
...it's not extreme, you know...
758
00:51:28,409 --> 00:51:31,709
I did come in once and found that
my office had been nicked.
759
00:51:31,809 --> 00:51:35,509
But it had been nicked by Ron Decline,
who we'd called in...
760
00:51:35,709 --> 00:51:38,839
...to stop this sort of flow of goods from
the building, so that was alright...
761
00:51:38,939 --> 00:51:43,709
So once you see this stop, do you feel
that Rutle Corp will continue into the future?
762
00:51:43,909 --> 00:51:51,109
Absolutely. I feel that once we've put a stop
to this sort of bit of petty pilfering...
763
00:51:51,209 --> 00:51:55,609
...Rutle Corp will last for a
very, very, very...
764
00:51:56,809 --> 00:52:01,409
For awhile, three chapters of the Redditch 'Hell's
Angels' lived in the basement of Rutle Corp...
765
00:52:01,509 --> 00:52:04,309
...before Stig had the nerve
to ask them to leave.
766
00:52:04,409 --> 00:52:07,509
- Who hurt Stig?
- One of the girls...
767
00:52:07,609 --> 00:52:10,509
- Who?
- Big Valerie here...
768
00:52:10,609 --> 00:52:13,809
We're very upset, but...
...there's not much we can do about it...
769
00:52:13,909 --> 00:52:16,809
- Why not?
- Well... she'll thump me.
770
00:52:16,909 --> 00:52:19,709
So... Stig injured by Big Valerie...
771
00:52:20,909 --> 00:52:23,809
The Rutles next opened a
clothes boutique in London...
772
00:52:23,909 --> 00:52:26,809
...which lost nearly a million dollars
in only three weeks...
773
00:52:26,909 --> 00:52:30,209
...before Nasty blew it up.
774
00:52:47,909 --> 00:52:51,009
I have always thought
775
00:52:51,209 --> 00:52:54,409
in the back of my mind
776
00:52:54,509 --> 00:52:57,409
cheese and onions
777
00:53:01,509 --> 00:53:04,609
I have always thought
778
00:53:04,909 --> 00:53:08,209
that the world was unkind
779
00:53:08,309 --> 00:53:11,109
cheese and onions
780
00:53:15,809 --> 00:53:19,109
Do I have to spell it out?
781
00:53:22,409 --> 00:53:28,609
C-H-E-E-S-E A-N-D O-N-I-O-N-S
782
00:53:28,709 --> 00:53:30,509
Oh, no.
783
00:53:35,209 --> 00:53:38,009
Man and machine
784
00:53:38,409 --> 00:53:41,409
Keep yourself clean
785
00:53:41,709 --> 00:53:44,509
Or be a has-been
786
00:53:45,009 --> 00:53:48,009
Like a dinosaur...
787
00:53:48,709 --> 00:53:51,409
Man or device
788
00:53:51,609 --> 00:53:54,609
For everything nice
789
00:53:55,209 --> 00:53:58,509
You'd better think twice
790
00:53:59,009 --> 00:54:02,109
At least once more...
791
00:54:02,309 --> 00:54:05,109
Man and machine
792
00:54:05,409 --> 00:54:08,409
Keep yourself clean
793
00:54:08,909 --> 00:54:11,709
Or be a has-been
794
00:54:12,409 --> 00:54:15,409
Like a dinosaur...
795
00:54:16,009 --> 00:54:18,709
Man or device
796
00:54:19,109 --> 00:54:22,109
For everything nice
797
00:54:22,609 --> 00:54:25,809
You'd better think twice
798
00:54:26,509 --> 00:54:29,509
At least once more!
799
00:54:29,909 --> 00:54:32,709
Man and machine
800
00:54:33,009 --> 00:54:36,009
Keep yourself clean
801
00:54:36,609 --> 00:54:39,409
Or be a has-been
802
00:54:40,009 --> 00:54:42,909
Like a dinosaur!
803
00:54:43,809 --> 00:54:46,509
Man or device
804
00:54:47,009 --> 00:54:50,009
For everything nice
805
00:54:50,609 --> 00:54:51,809
You'd better think twice...
806
00:54:51,909 --> 00:54:54,701
Hey there, who's your friend?
Get his teeth cleaned.
807
00:54:54,801 --> 00:54:58,709
- Oh, hello Nasty!
- Hello Dirk!
808
00:54:58,821 --> 00:55:03,335
- Oh, that's torn it...
- What are you doing, Stig?
809
00:55:03,499 --> 00:55:08,409
- Just getting out of here.
- Well, I'm gonna get out of here, too...
810
00:55:15,209 --> 00:55:19,509
Personal problems now began to split
The Rutles into smithereens.
811
00:55:19,609 --> 00:55:24,409
They would sing together, but they wouldn't talk.
Pretty soon they wouldn't even sing...!
812
00:55:24,509 --> 00:55:31,709
By March 1969 things had got so bad within
the group that both, Dirk and Nasty got married.
813
00:55:32,209 --> 00:55:33,969
...Not to each other, he... of course, eh...
814
00:55:34,409 --> 00:55:35,709
...to women...
815
00:55:37,109 --> 00:55:39,109
Dirk had become enamoured of Martini...
816
00:55:39,209 --> 00:55:43,109
...a French actress who spoke no English -
and precious little French.
817
00:55:43,209 --> 00:55:46,609
When they married in London
the service was conducted in Spanish...
818
00:55:46,709 --> 00:55:51,609
..., Italian, and Chinese,
to be on the safe side.
819
00:55:51,709 --> 00:55:54,309
I love you...
820
00:55:55,209 --> 00:55:58,009
It's you I love...
821
00:55:59,109 --> 00:56:02,809
Today is our wedding day...
822
00:56:02,909 --> 00:56:06,109
For you always I will wai...
823
00:56:07,709 --> 00:56:09,509
G, B, B, E...
824
00:56:09,609 --> 00:56:10,409
F...
825
00:56:11,009 --> 00:56:13,509
- D
- D... D...
826
00:56:23,209 --> 00:56:26,009
That's nice...
827
00:56:36,209 --> 00:56:39,309
Time goes by, as we all know
828
00:56:39,409 --> 00:56:41,609
Naturally
829
00:56:42,509 --> 00:56:45,609
People come and people go
830
00:56:45,709 --> 00:56:47,909
Naturally
831
00:56:48,009 --> 00:56:50,809
Let's be natural
832
00:56:51,409 --> 00:56:54,409
Ever since the world began
833
00:56:54,509 --> 00:56:57,209
Let's be natural
834
00:56:57,509 --> 00:57:00,509
Every woman, every man
835
00:57:00,609 --> 00:57:03,409
Let's be natural
836
00:57:04,009 --> 00:57:06,709
Has followed nature's plan
837
00:57:06,809 --> 00:57:09,609
Let's be natural
838
00:57:16,209 --> 00:57:18,209
Oh, yeah
839
00:57:20,409 --> 00:57:23,409
Nasty meanwhile visited
an exhibition of broken art...
840
00:57:23,509 --> 00:57:25,609
...at the Pretentious Gallery, Soho.
841
00:57:26,209 --> 00:57:30,709
The art exhibits had all been dropped
out of tall buildings and then put on display.
842
00:57:30,809 --> 00:57:34,809
Amongst the little piles of rubble,
Nasty found the artist herself...
843
00:57:34,909 --> 00:57:39,809
Chastity, a simple German girl,
whose father had invented World War II.
844
00:57:40,509 --> 00:57:44,009
Chastity fascinated him with her destructo art.
845
00:57:44,309 --> 00:57:46,659
They talked all through the night.
She outlined her plans...
846
00:57:46,759 --> 00:57:49,309
...to drop artists out of planes.
847
00:57:49,509 --> 00:57:51,409
Nasty adored her.
848
00:57:51,509 --> 00:57:56,109
They announced their engagement, next day at a
press conference held in his shower:
849
00:57:56,209 --> 00:57:57,609
What are you doing this for?
850
00:57:57,709 --> 00:58:01,709
We're doing this for peace,
and basically to show that the world is...
851
00:58:01,809 --> 00:58:05,709
...,you know, going astray, and is sinking...
852
00:58:06,009 --> 00:58:09,609
- What are you doing?
- We're getting wet in a shower...
853
00:58:09,709 --> 00:58:13,909
...because, basically, we talked it over,
Chastity and myself...
854
00:58:14,009 --> 00:58:16,009
...and we came to the conclusion...
855
00:58:16,109 --> 00:58:21,309
...that, eh, civilisation is nothing more
than an effective sewage system...
856
00:58:21,509 --> 00:58:26,309
...and so, by the use of plumbing,
we hope to demonstrate this to the world.
857
00:58:26,609 --> 00:58:30,009
Nasty and Chastity now plunged themselves
into the art world.
858
00:58:30,209 --> 00:58:33,609
Together, they made a film called
"A thousand feet of film".
859
00:58:34,909 --> 00:58:36,709
You need feet
860
00:58:36,909 --> 00:58:41,809
to stand up straight with
861
00:58:43,509 --> 00:58:45,209
You need feet
862
00:58:45,409 --> 00:58:49,809
to kick your friends
863
00:58:52,009 --> 00:58:53,809
You need feet
864
00:58:54,009 --> 00:58:58,609
to keep your socks on
865
00:59:01,509 --> 00:59:08,209
and stop your legs from
fraying at the end
866
00:59:08,509 --> 00:59:11,209
You need feet
867
00:59:11,509 --> 00:59:16,109
to walk to Scunthorpe
868
00:59:17,409 --> 00:59:23,009
or to dance the hoochy-koo
869
00:59:26,509 --> 00:59:30,209
Yes, the whole world needs feet
870
00:59:30,509 --> 00:59:33,509
for something
871
00:59:34,409 --> 00:59:40,709
and I need feet to run away from you
872
00:59:42,709 --> 00:59:45,709
Stig meanwhile, had hidden
in the background so much...
873
00:59:45,809 --> 00:59:49,609
...that in 1969 a rumour went
around that he was dead.
874
00:59:49,709 --> 00:59:52,909
He was supposed to being killed
in a flash-fire at a waterbed-shop...
875
00:59:53,609 --> 00:59:58,209
...and replaced by a plastic and wax replica
from Madam Tusseau's.
876
00:59:58,709 --> 01:00:02,509
Several so called 'facts'
helped the emergence of this rumour...
877
01:00:03,409 --> 01:00:07,509
One: He... he never said
anything publicly.
878
01:00:07,709 --> 01:00:12,509
Even as the 'quiet one',
he'd not said a word since 1966.
879
01:00:13,109 --> 01:00:18,809
Two: On the cover of their latest album,
'Shabby Road', he's wearing no trousers...
880
01:00:18,909 --> 01:00:22,209
...an Italian way of
indicating death.
881
01:00:22,309 --> 01:00:28,209
Three: Nasty supposedly sings
"I buried Stig" on "I Am The Waitress"...
882
01:00:28,309 --> 01:00:31,309
...in fact, he sings
"E burres stigano"...
883
01:00:31,409 --> 01:00:35,409
...which is very bad Spanish for
"Have you a water buffalo?".
884
01:00:35,509 --> 01:00:38,409
Four: On the cover of the Sgt. Rutter album...
885
01:00:38,509 --> 01:00:44,509
...Stig is leaning in the exact position of a
dying Yeti from the 'Rutland Book of the Dead'.
886
01:00:45,609 --> 01:00:51,809
Five: If you sing the title of
"Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band" backwards...
887
01:00:51,909 --> 01:00:56,809
...it's supposed to sound very like
"Stig has been dead for ages honestly".
888
01:00:56,909 --> 01:01:02,809
In fact, it sounds uncannily like
"dnab bulc ylno srettur tnaegres"...
889
01:01:02,909 --> 01:01:05,009
...palatable nonsense!
890
01:01:05,109 --> 01:01:10,509
Stig was, of course, far from dead,
although not, in fact, far from Esher:
891
01:01:10,809 --> 01:01:13,409
He'd fallen in bed
with Gertrude Strange...
892
01:01:13,509 --> 01:01:17,009
...a large-breasted biologically
accommodating American girl...
893
01:01:17,109 --> 01:01:20,009
...who's father had
invented the limpet mine.
894
01:01:20,109 --> 01:01:23,209
When they met, it was
lust at first sight.
895
01:01:23,309 --> 01:01:27,009
Barry meanwhile had also spent a
year in bed...-as a tax dodge.
896
01:01:27,109 --> 01:01:30,509
Eric Manchester thinks he'd either
received appalling financial advice...
897
01:01:30,609 --> 01:01:34,709
...or that he was desperately trying to start
a "Barry is also dead" rumour.
898
01:01:34,809 --> 01:01:39,009
When he finally got up
Rutle Corps was in a perilous financial plight.
899
01:01:39,409 --> 01:01:42,809
Nasty had flown back in a hurry
from his honeymoon-rally in Nuremburg...
900
01:01:42,909 --> 01:01:46,209
...to meet the most feared
promoter in the world...
901
01:01:46,309 --> 01:01:49,009
...Ron Decline.
902
01:01:57,109 --> 01:02:00,209
Decline had a reputation
as a hard man.
903
01:02:00,309 --> 01:02:02,809
His only weak spot
was dishonesty:
904
01:02:02,909 --> 01:02:07,509
Anyone was free to inspect his books,
but noone could find his accounts...
905
01:02:07,609 --> 01:02:11,509
...he struck terror into
the hearts of his subordinates.
906
01:02:12,809 --> 01:02:17,109
People would commit suicide
rather than meet him...
907
01:02:17,609 --> 01:02:22,109
...in business his left hand never knew
who his right hand was doing.
908
01:02:22,209 --> 01:02:26,509
Nasty adored him,
he was a man after his own wallet.
909
01:02:33,909 --> 01:02:38,409
Decline promised The Rutles that
if they let him take care of their royalties...
910
01:02:38,509 --> 01:02:41,909
...they would never have
to worry about money again.
911
01:02:42,009 --> 01:02:46,109
Stig, meanwhile, was accepting the
financial advice of Billy Kodak...
912
01:02:46,209 --> 01:02:50,409
...whilst Dirk had invited Arnold
Schwarzenweisengreenenbrownenbluenburger...
913
01:02:50,509 --> 01:02:51,910
...to handle his end of the name...
914
01:02:52,010 --> 01:02:55,308
...Barry was consulting the I Ching
every three and a half minutes.
915
01:02:55,409 --> 01:02:57,409
There was a plethora of lawyers.
916
01:02:57,509 --> 01:03:02,709
Suddenly, every-one became
amazingly litigious.
917
01:03:02,809 --> 01:03:05,480
I remember, I'd get up in
the morning, sue some-one...
918
01:03:05,580 --> 01:03:07,608
check in the papers I hadn't been fired...
919
01:03:07,709 --> 01:03:12,609
...go to the office, sue some-one,
pick up the morning's writ, sue the bank -...
920
01:03:12,709 --> 01:03:15,509
...go out to lunch, sue the restaurant...
921
01:03:15,609 --> 01:03:18,709
...get back in, collect the writs that
had been received that afternoon...
922
01:03:18,809 --> 01:03:24,009
...read the papers, phone the papers,
sue the papers, and go home...
923
01:03:24,109 --> 01:03:25,309
...sue the wife.
924
01:03:25,409 --> 01:03:26,325
They're asking me:
925
01:03:26,425 --> 01:03:30,009
"Where's the money, where's the money?".
I mean, I don't know where the money is...?!
926
01:03:30,109 --> 01:03:32,609
I've never been good with figures,
...you know that...
927
01:03:32,709 --> 01:03:35,909
I don't know anything about math,
it was never my good subject.
928
01:03:36,009 --> 01:03:40,009
I don't know where the money is...but if you
need money, I'll give you money...
929
01:03:40,109 --> 01:03:43,709
But this...
...this, really, surprises me...
930
01:03:43,809 --> 01:03:45,009
...I'm really shocked...
931
01:03:45,109 --> 01:03:49,609
...because I thought we had something here
a lot stronger than just... business.
932
01:03:49,709 --> 01:03:54,609
I mean, you know, I love you
more than I love my own family...I do...
933
01:03:54,709 --> 01:03:58,409
I wanna protect you, I wanna help you...
934
01:03:58,509 --> 01:04:01,009
...I wanna protect you
from the outside world...
935
01:04:01,109 --> 01:04:03,109
...protect you... protect you from...
936
01:04:03,409 --> 01:04:09,409
...people like me... you know?
And I think I'm doing a good job...
937
01:04:09,609 --> 01:04:13,409
At the final meeting, a hundred-and-thirty-four
legal people and accountants...
938
01:04:13,509 --> 01:04:16,209
...filed into a small eight-by-ten room...
939
01:04:16,309 --> 01:04:18,809
...only eighty-seven came out alive:
940
01:04:18,909 --> 01:04:21,009
The black hole of Savile Row...
941
01:04:21,109 --> 01:04:25,409
...had taken toll of some of the finest
merchant banking brains of a generation.
942
01:04:25,509 --> 01:04:27,509
Luckily, that's not very serious...
943
01:04:27,609 --> 01:04:30,809
...but The Rutles were obviously
self-destructing fast.
944
01:04:30,909 --> 01:04:33,409
In the midst of all
this public bickering...
945
01:04:33,509 --> 01:04:38,009
'Let It Rot' was released as a
film, an album... and a lawsuit.
946
01:04:38,209 --> 01:04:42,609
In 1970 Dirk sued
Stig, Nasty, and Barry...
947
01:04:42,709 --> 01:04:45,309
Barry sued
Dirk, Nasty, and Stig...
948
01:04:45,409 --> 01:04:47,809
Nasty sued Barry,
Dirk, and Stig...
949
01:04:47,909 --> 01:04:50,609
...and Stig sued
himself, accidentally.
950
01:04:50,709 --> 01:04:53,009
It was the beginning of
a golden era for lawyers...
951
01:04:53,109 --> 01:04:56,309
...but for The Rutles, live
on a London rooftop...
952
01:04:56,409 --> 01:04:59,509
...it was the beginning of the end.
953
01:05:08,009 --> 01:05:11,509
Workin' up a fever in a one-horse town
954
01:05:11,609 --> 01:05:15,209
Was a jockey by the name of Joe
955
01:05:15,809 --> 01:05:19,309
He didn't have a lot of what
you might call luck
956
01:05:19,409 --> 01:05:23,109
But he had a lot of get up n' go
957
01:05:23,609 --> 01:05:27,009
Get up n' go
Get up n' go
958
01:05:27,609 --> 01:05:30,809
Get up n' go back home
959
01:05:31,509 --> 01:05:34,909
Get up n' go
Get up n' go
960
01:05:35,509 --> 01:05:38,709
Get up n' go back home
961
01:05:55,009 --> 01:05:58,209
Tall in the saddle in a one-horse town
962
01:05:58,309 --> 01:06:02,209
Joe, he knew someday he'd hit the road
963
01:06:02,409 --> 01:06:06,009
He traded with a dealer for a pick-up truck
964
01:06:06,109 --> 01:06:09,809
And went lookin' for a medium load
965
01:06:10,409 --> 01:06:13,809
Get up n' go
Get up n' go
966
01:06:14,309 --> 01:06:17,509
Get up n' go back home
967
01:06:18,309 --> 01:06:21,609
Get up n' go
Get up n' go
968
01:06:22,209 --> 01:06:25,309
Get up n' go back home
969
01:06:44,209 --> 01:06:47,609
Get up n' go
Get up n' go
970
01:06:48,109 --> 01:06:51,409
Get up n' go back home
971
01:06:52,009 --> 01:06:55,309
Get up n' go
Get up n' go
972
01:06:55,909 --> 01:06:59,009
Get up n' go back home
973
01:06:59,509 --> 01:07:03,209
Get up n' go
Get up n' go
974
01:07:03,609 --> 01:07:06,809
Get up n' go back home
975
01:07:07,509 --> 01:07:10,909
Get up n' go
Get up n' go
976
01:07:11,409 --> 01:07:13,809
Get up n' go back home
977
01:07:42,909 --> 01:07:47,409
Like any of the other enormous
music... popular music phenomenom's...
978
01:07:47,509 --> 01:07:52,109
...Sinatra, and Presley, and The Rutles,
and then, you know, some people say...
979
01:07:52,209 --> 01:07:55,909
...well, you know, it's time every ten years:
"Who will be the next Rutles?", you know...
980
01:07:56,009 --> 01:07:59,209
I don't think there
will be a next Rutles...
981
01:07:59,309 --> 01:08:04,109
Sixteen years after the fresh-faced
prefab four first burst into the public eye...
982
01:08:04,209 --> 01:08:08,609
...and eight years after they split up,
just where are The Rutles today?
983
01:08:08,709 --> 01:08:12,809
Dirk has formed with his wife Martini
a punk rock group...
984
01:08:12,909 --> 01:08:15,209
...called The Punk Floyd.
985
01:08:15,309 --> 01:08:18,309
He sings... and she doesn't.
986
01:08:20,109 --> 01:08:25,909
Nasty has turned his back on the world
and sits with his thoughts and his memories.
987
01:08:26,909 --> 01:08:32,509
Barry is a hairdresser in the Reading area,
with two fully equipped salons of his own...
988
01:08:34,509 --> 01:08:39,209
...while Stig works for
Air India as a air-hostess.
989
01:08:40,309 --> 01:08:42,909
Fame is a fickle mistress.
990
01:08:43,009 --> 01:08:46,809
Just how many people even
remember The Rutles today?
991
01:08:46,909 --> 01:08:50,809
We asked the public
just what is a Rutle?
992
01:08:50,909 --> 01:08:54,909
Excuse me madam, we're doing a documentary,
and I wonder if you'd answer a few questions.
993
01:08:55,009 --> 01:08:56,809
Sorry I don't answer questions.
994
01:08:56,909 --> 01:09:00,359
It wont take a second of your time, really, we've
just got the camera rolling right away here...
995
01:09:00,459 --> 01:09:03,509
We're from England, and we're making a documentary
and we just want one question, please...
996
01:09:03,609 --> 01:09:06,509
- Alright
- Thank you very much, just stand right here ok?
997
01:09:06,609 --> 01:09:10,209
- Who were The Rutles?
- I don't know.
998
01:09:10,309 --> 01:09:12,479
- Come on, you must know
- No, I'm sorry, I don't know...
999
01:09:12,579 --> 01:09:14,209
- Yes, you do know
- No, well, I don't know...
1000
01:09:14,309 --> 01:09:15,909
- Who were The Rutles?
- I don't know.
1001
01:09:16,009 --> 01:09:17,319
- You do know!
- No I don't know!
1002
01:09:17,419 --> 01:09:19,559
- You do know! The Rutles!
- I don't know who they are!
1003
01:09:19,659 --> 01:09:22,289
- Who were The Rutles? Please tell us...
- I don't know who they are...
1004
01:09:22,389 --> 01:09:23,819
- Who were The Rutles?
- I don't know!
1005
01:09:23,919 --> 01:09:24,889
- You do know!
- I don't!
1006
01:09:24,989 --> 01:09:26,989
- You do know! Who were The Rutles?!
- I don't know!
1007
01:09:27,109 --> 01:09:28,328
Who were The Rutles?!
1008
01:09:28,444 --> 01:09:30,865
The Rutles were a mop-top
English pop quartet of the sixties...
1009
01:09:30,965 --> 01:09:33,196
...who set the foot of the world a-tapping
with their catchy melodies...
1010
01:09:33,296 --> 01:09:36,409
...their whacky Liverpool humour
and their zany off-the-wall antics...
1011
01:09:36,509 --> 01:09:39,019
...epitomised in such movies as
"A Hard Days Rut" and "Ouch!".
1012
01:09:39,119 --> 01:09:41,809
Dirk and Nasty,
the acknowledged leaders of the group...
1013
01:09:41,909 --> 01:09:46,309
...were perfectly complimented by
Stig, the quiet one, and Barry, the noisy one...
1014
01:09:46,409 --> 01:09:49,809
...to form a heart-warming, cheeky,
lovable, talented...
1015
01:09:49,909 --> 01:09:52,419
...Non-Jewish group
who would gladden the hearts of the world.
1016
01:09:52,519 --> 01:09:54,909
- Thank you very...
- In 1962 they played The Cavern.
1017
01:09:55,009 --> 01:09:58,339
- After that they spent several months in Hamburg.
- Yes, thank you very much indeed.
1018
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:02,009
Then, in 1962, they released
their first single "Twist and Rut".
1019
01:10:02,109 --> 01:10:04,009
Yes, thank you very much, thank you...
1020
01:10:04,109 --> 01:10:07,309
Will you shut up?!
1021
01:10:07,409 --> 01:10:11,009
From New York
back to London...
1022
01:10:11,109 --> 01:10:16,809
I'm standing on the crossing,
where the Rutles legend ended.
1023
01:10:16,909 --> 01:10:22,809
Here it was that the prefab four,
Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry...
1024
01:10:23,309 --> 01:10:28,009
...The Rutles, the singing phenomena,
who made the sixties what they are today...
1025
01:10:28,109 --> 01:10:31,109
Here it was that indeed......!
1026
01:10:34,609 --> 01:10:39,409
Mick, why do you think
The Rutles broke up?
1027
01:10:39,509 --> 01:10:43,609
Why do I think they did?
Why did The Rutles break up?
1028
01:10:43,909 --> 01:10:50,009
Women... just women,
...getting in the way...
1029
01:10:50,209 --> 01:10:52,509
Cherchez la femme,
you know...
1030
01:10:52,609 --> 01:10:55,462
Do you think they'll ever
get back together again?
1031
01:10:55,709 --> 01:10:57,609
I hope not...?!
1032
01:10:58,500 --> 01:11:02,414
People were proud
in Doubleback Alley
1033
01:11:02,694 --> 01:11:06,500
Neighbours were loud,
but ever so pally
1034
01:11:06,714 --> 01:11:10,520
People would shout,
joking about
1035
01:11:10,700 --> 01:11:14,600
The smoke and the soot,
Mother would put
1036
01:11:14,700 --> 01:11:17,700
The milk bottles out
1037
01:11:18,955 --> 01:11:22,700
We had a good time
in Doubleback Alley
1038
01:11:22,826 --> 01:11:26,800
With fences to climb,
and Father O'Malley
1039
01:11:26,900 --> 01:11:30,400
To clip your ear,
and steer you clear
1040
01:11:30,500 --> 01:11:34,400
Of the funny man
in the ice cream van
1041
01:11:34,500 --> 01:11:37,700
Who talked so queer
1042
01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:45,500
Doubleback Alley takes me back
and in my mind I see
1043
01:11:46,945 --> 01:11:54,128
Happy, smiling faces if
I flog my memory
1044
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:58,822
People were proud
in Doubleback Alley
1045
01:11:58,922 --> 01:12:02,925
Neighbours were loud,
but ever so pally
1046
01:12:03,057 --> 01:12:07,093
People would shout,
joking about
1047
01:12:07,208 --> 01:12:10,800
The smoke and the soot,
Mother would put
1048
01:12:11,047 --> 01:12:13,900
The milk bottles out
1049
01:12:15,100 --> 01:12:19,087
We had a good time
in Doubleback Alley
1050
01:12:19,235 --> 01:12:23,229
With fences to climb,
and Father O'Malley
1051
01:12:23,329 --> 01:12:26,500
To clip your ear,
and steer you clear
1052
01:12:26,648 --> 01:12:30,701
Of the funny man
in the ice cream van
1053
01:12:30,915 --> 01:12:33,700
Who talked so queer
1054
01:12:35,248 --> 01:12:42,283
Doubleback Alley takes me back
and in my mind I see
1055
01:12:43,100 --> 01:12:50,256
Happy, smiling faces
if I flog my memory...