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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' 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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# When I fell for you
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# I didn't need a shove
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# Now that we are two
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# It all adds up to love
to love
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# Love Life
Love Life
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# Make up your mind
Love Life
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# In your own time
Love Life
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# Hey diddle diddle
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# The cat and the fiddle
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# Piggy in the middle
Doo-a-poo
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# I feel rich
I feel poor
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# I'm in doubt
I feel sure
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# Am I in love?
I must be in love
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# Time goes by, as we all know, naturally
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# People come and people go, naturally
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# Let's be natural
ever since the world began
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# Let's be natural
every woman, every man
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# Let's be natural
as follows nature's plan
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# Let's be natural
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# Oh, yeah
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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,
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,
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 thing
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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 mirer 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 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 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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It means a cellar full of rats
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Indeed you might say,
cellar full of Ratles
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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 every-one 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 myself and
I knew a thing or two about inside legs 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
and took the ferry across the Mersey to a land
of riches, wealth and heartache
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Leggy put them into suits,
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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# A teacher couldn't teach me
I had no time for school
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# No one there could reach me
But baby I'm no fool, no fool
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# Number one, number one
You're my number one
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# You're my second to none
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# Number one, number one
Wooo!
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# One and one make two
and I look after you
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# Number one, number one
You're my number one
Wooo!
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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 my 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 we 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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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 had just completed
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.
He was a real hustler for the songs I think
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Always wanting to sell a song, you know,
for any old slag he'd sell a song to
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And they came down, they came down,
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 round 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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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 in corporation 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 was 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
245
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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 Rutle fan
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And she enjoyed the performance so much
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
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I felt more like him than me
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- Do you feel better after seeing the Queen?
- No, you feel better after seeing the doctor
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- Not my doctor you don't
- Not your doctor, no
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- What are you going to do now?
- Back to your place!
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But all rest an no play
makes Rutles dull boys
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And on Thursday they fly to America, to see
if they were more than nine day wonders
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They needn't have worried
America loves Rutles too
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In many cases, even more
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Ten thousand girls are here to say hello
to these four guys from Liverpool
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It was the most famous arrival on these shores
since Christopher Columbus.
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-Hello there
-Thanks a lot
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After briefly greeting the press, they drive
into the heart of Manhattan
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to get their first glimpse of New York.
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It's Rutles day in Flushing Ladies and Gentlemen...
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He's good this guy is,
called Murray "The K"
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Soft in the head sounds like
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Come on! Flushing Animals!
What do you want to know? What do you want to hear?
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If you call me up at 555-21-60
and say you wanna hear anything but the Rutles
277
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I'm gonna come lookin' for ya!
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I mean it! Because it's Rutles day, they're going to be here tomorrow,
talking about their trousers
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It's a big big day
here in Flushing!
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Lets give 'em a big round of applause!
I know I can't hear you!
281
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But I know I can pick up what
you're saying baby!
282
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The scene is here
in Flushing!
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The whole world's eyes
are on Flushing!
284
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Because the prefab four
are coming to town tomorrow...
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To talk about their trousers
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I don't know about this, do you?
- No
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And then it's back to the hotel
for some fun and games!
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This is tea, you know we drink it.
We put the water in the tea,
there's the tea, there.
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- And we pour it into the pot
- One for Uncle Mamy
and one for Auntie Betty
290
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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
292
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I'm actually standing outside the actual hotel,
in which The Rutles actually stayed in 1964
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Actually in this room, here.
And it was actually inside this actual room
294
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That I actually spoke
with the actual Paul Simon
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Well the show where I remember
Ed Sullivan saying that
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"Calm down now, every-one calm down" you know,
"We can't hear" or some...some kind of silly warning you know
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They opened the show,
I think, and they also closed the show
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Which I thought was a...astute
planning on Sullivan�s part
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Because it would've made you very angry
if you had to sit through the whole show to wait
to see The Rutles you know
300
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So clearly every-one had tuned into that week's show,
just to see The Rutles
301
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Now yesterday and today our theatre has been jammed
with newspapermen and hundreds of photographers
from all over the nation
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And these veterans agreed with me,
that the city never has witnessed
the excitement stirred
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By these youngsters from Liverpool,
who call themselves The Rutles
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Now tonight you're gonna twice be entertained by them,
right now and again in the second half of our show
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Ladies and gentlemen
The Rutles!
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# I'm not the kind of guy who likes to play
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# Big Brother
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# But I've just seen your date outside, he's with
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# Another
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# I saw you both come in
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# And clearly, you're not meant for him, so
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# Please, please, hold my hand
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# Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
314
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# Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
315
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# Hold my hand and I'll see you home
316
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# I want to tell you I'm in love with you
317
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# Completely
318
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# I'd like to take you far away from here
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# Discreetly
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# Our love was meant to be
321
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# And darling, it's a certainty, oh
322
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# Please, please, hold my hand
323
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# Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
324
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,820
# Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
325
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# Hold my hand and I'll see you home
326
00:22:14,820 --> 00:22:17,420
# Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
327
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# Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
328
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# Hold my hand and I'll see you home
329
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# Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
330
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# Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
331
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# Hold my hand and I'll see you home
332
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# Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
333
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,540
# Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
334
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# Hold my hand and I'll see you home
335
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The Rutles music meanwhile
had been attracting respectable critical attention
336
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'The London Times' called it
"The best since Schubert"
337
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Sir Brian Morrison has been Regis professor of music
at the University of Oxford for the past thirty years
338
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We asked him just how good,
musically, were The Rutles
339
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Stanley J. Krammerhead the Third Jr.
is an occasional visiting
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professor of Applied Narcotics
at the University of Please-Yourself, California
341
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He is also a keen historian
of pop music
342
00:23:39,644 --> 00:23:43,844
We asked him just how good,
musically, were The Rutles
343
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Listen, look it's very simply, musicological
and ethically
344
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The Rutles were essentially empirical
maise-longues so they rhythmically radical
345
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Yet verbally pass� and temporarily
transcended lyrical content
346
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Welded with historically innovative melodically
material, transposed and transmogrified
347
00:24:04,144 --> 00:24:08,244
By the angst of the Rutland ethic
experience, which elevated them
348
00:24:08,344 --> 00:24:13,844
From essentially alpha exponents of in essence merely beta
potential harmonic material
349
00:24:13,944 --> 00:24:20,044
Into the prime cultural exponents
of Aeolian codensic cosmic stanza form
350
00:24:20,244 --> 00:24:24,244
But he didn't really
tell us either
351
00:24:24,344 --> 00:24:30,644
So we went to New Orleans,
to find out just how expensive it is to make these
documentaries
352
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I'm standing by the banks of the Mississippi.
The First Na...
353
00:24:38,844 --> 00:24:44,844
I'm standing by the banks of the Mississippi
in Louisiana, the cradle of the blues
354
00:24:45,244 --> 00:24:48,844
That's black music
sung mainly by whites
355
00:24:48,944 --> 00:24:53,344
And we're here to find out
the black origins of Rutle music
356
00:24:53,444 --> 00:24:56,944
I spoke with Blind Lemon Pie.
357
00:24:57,144 --> 00:25:02,044
Well everything I learned,
I learned from The Rutles
358
00:25:02,144 --> 00:25:03,644
From The Rutles,
really?
359
00:25:03,744 --> 00:25:06,544
Yes, everything
360
00:25:06,844 --> 00:25:10,244
But surely you were singing the blues
back in the early thirties
361
00:25:10,344 --> 00:25:13,544
No, I was working on the railroad
362
00:25:13,644 --> 00:25:16,744
I worked on the railroad for thirty years
or more
363
00:25:16,844 --> 00:25:23,444
Until I heard The Rutles.
and I decided, that that's my type of music
364
00:25:24,044 --> 00:25:29,944
I'm gonna leave the railroad, and I became a musician
and I've been starving ever since
365
00:25:30,444 --> 00:25:34,644
- So where did Rutle music originate?
- Next door
366
00:25:34,744 --> 00:25:38,044
- Next door?
- Next door to Ruttling Orange Peel
367
00:25:38,144 --> 00:25:45,344
Yes sir, I originated The Rutles.
They got it all from me. Every single bit of it
368
00:25:45,444 --> 00:25:48,544
- Well how do you mean?
- Well sir, they come here
369
00:25:48,644 --> 00:25:53,944
And they took everything I ever written.
Those four guys from Liverpool came here
370
00:25:54,044 --> 00:25:55,644
- He's lyin'!
- I ain't lyin'!
371
00:25:55,744 --> 00:25:58,644
- He's always lyin'!
- I ain't lyin'! I ain't lyin'!
372
00:25:58,744 --> 00:26:04,344
Every time there's a documentary on white music around here,
he claims he started it all
373
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I did, I did, I did!
374
00:26:05,644 --> 00:26:09,444
Last week he claimed
he started The Everly Brothers
375
00:26:09,544 --> 00:26:14,044
- Frank Sinatra and Laurence Wells!
- I did, I did!
- He's always lyin'!
376
00:26:15,944 --> 00:26:20,944
Well we seem to be rather wasting our time
here in New Orleans
377
00:26:21,044 --> 00:26:23,144
Despite the expense
378
00:26:23,244 --> 00:26:25,844
Still it's pretty isn't it?
379
00:26:26,345 --> 00:26:29,045
Nasty had written and published
a bestselling book:
380
00:26:29,145 --> 00:26:30,445
"Out Of Me Head"
381
00:26:30,545 --> 00:26:33,245
Only one media
remained unconquered
382
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The cinema
383
00:26:34,845 --> 00:26:38,745
In 1965 "A Hard Day's Rut"
changed all that
384
00:26:38,845 --> 00:26:40,145
# I feel good
385
00:26:40,445 --> 00:26:41,945
# I feel bad
386
00:26:42,145 --> 00:26:43,645
# I feel happy
387
00:26:43,845 --> 00:26:45,045
# I feel sad
388
00:26:45,245 --> 00:26:47,945
# Am I in love?
389
00:26:48,045 --> 00:26:51,045
# I must be in love
390
00:26:51,745 --> 00:26:53,245
# I feel rich
391
00:26:53,445 --> 00:26:54,845
# I feel poor
392
00:26:55,045 --> 00:26:56,645
# I'm in doubt
393
00:26:56,845 --> 00:26:58,245
# I feel sure
394
00:26:58,445 --> 00:27:01,045
# Am I in love?
395
00:27:01,145 --> 00:27:04,045
# I must be in love
396
00:27:06,245 --> 00:27:11,445
# Any time of the day I can see
397
00:27:11,545 --> 00:27:16,445
# Her face, when I close my eyes
398
00:27:18,045 --> 00:27:19,345
# She's a dream
399
00:27:19,545 --> 00:27:20,845
# She is real
400
00:27:21,045 --> 00:27:22,445
# Can't explain
401
00:27:22,645 --> 00:27:24,045
# How I feel
402
00:27:24,245 --> 00:27:27,045
# Am I in love?
403
00:27:27,245 --> 00:27:30,145
# I must be in love
404
00:27:45,445 --> 00:27:50,645
# Any time of the day I can see
405
00:27:50,745 --> 00:27:55,645
# Her face, when I close my eyes
406
00:27:57,045 --> 00:27:58,445
# Am I dead
407
00:27:58,645 --> 00:28:00,145
# Or alive?
408
00:28:00,345 --> 00:28:01,845
# Can my poor heart
409
00:28:02,045 --> 00:28:03,245
# Survive?
410
00:28:03,445 --> 00:28:06,245
# Am I in love?
411
00:28:06,445 --> 00:28:09,245
# I must be in love
412
00:28:10,145 --> 00:28:11,445
# I feel good
413
00:28:11,645 --> 00:28:13,045
# I feel bad
414
00:28:13,245 --> 00:28:14,845
# I feel happy
415
00:28:15,045 --> 00:28:16,245
# I feel sad
416
00:28:16,445 --> 00:28:19,045
# Am I in love?
417
00:28:19,645 --> 00:28:22,445
# I must be in love
418
00:28:22,645 --> 00:28:25,845
# I must be in love
419
00:28:26,045 --> 00:28:29,045
# I must be in love
420
00:28:29,245 --> 00:28:32,245
# I must be in love
421
00:28:36,503 --> 00:28:39,003
Roger McGough
is a Liverpool poet
422
00:28:39,103 --> 00:28:42,603
He's the author of many books
set in and around Liverpool
423
00:28:42,703 --> 00:28:47,703
Including "Mersey Sound", "Gig",
"The Liverpool Scene" and two of
his Liverpool poems are
424
00:28:47,803 --> 00:28:51,103
In the "The Oxford Book of
Twentieth Century's English Verse"
425
00:28:51,203 --> 00:28:55,403
He was born in Liverpool, attended school in
Liverpool, was even married in Liverpool
426
00:28:55,503 --> 00:28:58,203
And his football team is
of course Everton
427
00:28:58,303 --> 00:29:00,803
He's a member of the "The Scaffold",
a light comedy group
428
00:29:00,903 --> 00:29:03,403
Who played The Cavern
during the early sixties
429
00:29:03,503 --> 00:29:09,803
And during those incredible years he lived, wrote,
loved, watched football and drank in Liverpool
430
00:29:09,903 --> 00:29:13,603
- Roger, did you know The Rutles?
- Oh yes yes
431
00:29:13,703 --> 00:29:19,703
Roger McGough, Liverpool poet, writer, author,
humorist, bon-vivre, and a man who knew The Rutles!
432
00:29:21,060 --> 00:29:21,860
Australia
433
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:23,360
Canada
434
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:25,060
Cleveland
435
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:30,960
The Rutles were now world-wide successes.
They'd rubbed shoulders with the great
436
00:29:31,060 --> 00:29:35,560
Their pictures were everywhere.
Their names endorsed a thousand products
437
00:29:35,660 --> 00:29:39,860
From tee-shirts to garter belts
to pillowcases
438
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,660
Leggy was besieged by merchandisers
439
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:46,760
We felt every girl in America
is gonna to want to sleep with a Rutle
440
00:29:46,860 --> 00:29:50,460
Yes we have a complete line of Rutles
products all ready to go
441
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:55,260
The Rutle tee-shirt, the Rutle plate, the Rutle cup,
the Rutle acne cream, the Rutle hairclips
442
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,360
All a complete line of Rutles products,
and all I need from you is just your word and
443
00:29:59,460 --> 00:30:01,260
- We're in business.
- We're in business?
444
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:02,760
I like the way you work
445
00:30:02,860 --> 00:30:07,660
Brian Thigh was a top record
executive in London in 1962
446
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:13,660
Mr. Thigh, you've been known for many many years
as the man who turned down The Rutles
447
00:30:17,060 --> 00:30:18,160
Yeah that's right
448
00:30:18,260 --> 00:30:21,060
You said guitar groups
were on the way out and
449
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:25,860
Would never make any money
at all in the sixties
450
00:30:26,860 --> 00:30:28,560
Yes I did
451
00:30:28,660 --> 00:30:34,060
You turned your back on all those millions
of sales, all those hundreds of gold records
452
00:30:36,660 --> 00:30:39,260
Yeah, yeah that's right
453
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,060
- What's it like to be such an asshole?
- What?!
454
00:30:42,084 --> 00:30:45,084
Some people say you've been staying away
from Liverpool now you're famous
455
00:30:45,208 --> 00:30:47,659
No we haven't been staying away,
as much as not coming here
456
00:30:48,483 --> 00:30:50,683
Some people say it's six months
since you came back here
457
00:30:50,707 --> 00:30:54,307
- Well that's the sort of thing some people would say
- Nevertheless it has been six months
458
00:30:54,331 --> 00:30:56,331
Now you're saying it...why don't
you ask me where I've been?
459
00:30:56,355 --> 00:30:58,355
- Where have you been?
- I'm not telling you
460
00:31:01,501 --> 00:31:04,701
# I grew up in the country
461
00:31:04,801 --> 00:31:07,001
# Beside a chicken shack
462
00:31:07,101 --> 00:31:09,101
# So I left for the city
463
00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:11,501
# And I didn't look back
464
00:31:11,601 --> 00:31:13,001
# Now, I'm livin' in hope
465
00:31:13,101 --> 00:31:14,301
# Livin' in hope
466
00:31:14,401 --> 00:31:15,701
# I'm livin' in hope
467
00:31:15,801 --> 00:31:16,701
# Livin' in hope
468
00:31:16,801 --> 00:31:18,301
# Yes, I'm livin' in hope
469
00:31:18,401 --> 00:31:20,401
# Livin' in hope
470
00:31:20,501 --> 00:31:25,901
At the height of Rutlemania in 1965,
their drummer Barry Wom, the noisy one
471
00:31:26,001 --> 00:31:30,301
Returned home to Liverpool,
to marry his childhood sweet-heart
472
00:31:30,401 --> 00:31:33,301
The church was packed with Rutle fans
473
00:31:33,401 --> 00:31:37,701
All of whom wanted to
get a close look at The Rutles
474
00:31:43,501 --> 00:31:49,101
Inside the dimly lit, crowded church
Barry got separated from his fianc�
475
00:31:49,201 --> 00:31:52,501
And ended up with a different bride
476
00:32:02,201 --> 00:32:07,401
In the confusion, Barry's bride-to-be,
twenty-three year old butcher's apprentice, Brenda Liola
477
00:32:07,501 --> 00:32:10,801
Was accidentally married to
a party of Scotsmen from Hull
478
00:32:10,901 --> 00:32:13,101
Inspiring Barry's haunting ballad
479
00:32:13,201 --> 00:32:17,301
"When you find the girl of your dreams in
the arms of some Scotsmen from Hull"
480
00:32:17,325 --> 00:32:22,025
Barry was heartbroken, but when he looked up and
saw who he'd married, he soon cheered up.
481
00:32:25,049 --> 00:32:30,249
Welcome back. And it's from Liverpool that we
go imediately to London
482
00:32:31,183 --> 00:32:33,783
Hello, London here
483
00:32:33,883 --> 00:32:40,083
And it's from London that we go to Switzerland
to The Rutles second movie "Ouch!"
484
00:32:40,183 --> 00:32:45,183
Filmed in colour, on location
very expensively, not in London
485
00:32:45,283 --> 00:32:46,383
# Ouch!
486
00:32:46,483 --> 00:32:47,783
# You're breakin' my heart
487
00:32:47,883 --> 00:32:48,983
# Ouch!
488
00:32:49,083 --> 00:32:50,283
# I'm fallin' apart
489
00:32:50,383 --> 00:32:51,483
# Ouch!
490
00:32:51,583 --> 00:32:54,183
# Ow, ow, Ouch!
491
00:32:55,283 --> 00:32:56,683
# When we first met
492
00:32:56,783 --> 00:33:00,183
# I must admit I fell
for you right from the start
493
00:33:00,283 --> 00:33:04,883
# I must admit I fell
for you right from the start
494
00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:06,283
# Now when we meet
495
00:33:06,383 --> 00:33:09,683
# All kinds of things
it seems upset the apple cart
496
00:33:09,883 --> 00:33:14,283
# All kinds of things
it seems upset the apple cart
497
00:33:14,383 --> 00:33:15,383
# Ouch!
498
00:33:15,483 --> 00:33:16,483
# Don't desert me
499
00:33:16,583 --> 00:33:17,683
# Ouch!
500
00:33:17,783 --> 00:33:19,083
# Please don't hurt me
501
00:33:19,183 --> 00:33:20,283
# Ouch!
502
00:33:20,383 --> 00:33:23,083
# Ow, ow, Ouch!
503
00:33:23,783 --> 00:33:25,183
# What is this thing
504
00:33:25,283 --> 00:33:28,883
# Called love why do they say
it makes the world go 'round?
505
00:33:29,083 --> 00:33:33,183
# Called love why do they say
it makes the world go 'round?
506
00:33:33,283 --> 00:33:34,683
# I can't explain
507
00:33:34,783 --> 00:33:38,383
# The way I feel for you,
my feet don't touch the ground
508
00:33:38,583 --> 00:33:42,883
# The way I feel for you,
my feet don't touch the ground
509
00:33:42,983 --> 00:33:44,083
# Ouch!
510
00:33:44,183 --> 00:33:45,283
# Don't desert me
511
00:33:45,383 --> 00:33:46,283
# Ouch!
512
00:33:46,383 --> 00:33:47,683
# Please don't hurt me
513
00:33:47,783 --> 00:33:48,883
# Ouch!
514
00:33:48,983 --> 00:33:51,683
# Ow, ow, Ouch!
515
00:33:52,683 --> 00:33:53,683
# When we first met
516
00:33:53,783 --> 00:33:57,783
# I must admit I fell
for you right from the start
517
00:33:57,883 --> 00:34:02,383
# I must admit I fell
for you right from the start
518
00:34:02,483 --> 00:34:03,783
# Now when we meet
519
00:34:03,883 --> 00:34:07,783
# All kinds of things
it seems upset the apple cart
520
00:34:07,983 --> 00:34:11,983
# All kinds of things
it seems upset the apple cart
521
00:34:12,083 --> 00:34:13,283
# Ouch!
522
00:34:13,383 --> 00:34:14,383
# Don't desert me
523
00:34:14,483 --> 00:34:15,383
# Ouch!
524
00:34:15,483 --> 00:34:16,683
# Please don't hurt me
525
00:34:16,783 --> 00:34:17,983
# Ouch!
526
00:34:18,083 --> 00:34:20,683
# Ow, ow, Ouch!
527
00:34:21,583 --> 00:34:22,683
# Ouch!
528
00:34:22,783 --> 00:34:23,883
# Don't desert me
529
00:34:23,983 --> 00:34:24,983
# Ouch!
530
00:34:25,083 --> 00:34:26,183
# Please don't hurt me
531
00:34:26,283 --> 00:34:27,483
# Ouch!
532
00:34:27,583 --> 00:34:30,183
# Ow, ow, Ouch!
533
00:34:34,544 --> 00:34:40,044
Che Stadium. Named after the Cuban guerrilla
leader, Che Stadium
534
00:34:40,144 --> 00:34:46,544
And it was here, in 1965, that The Rutles came,
well, not here in the car park obviously
535
00:34:46,644 --> 00:34:54,144
But back there, in the stadium
that The Rutles came in 1965 to a
capacity house, a sell-out
536
00:34:54,344 --> 00:34:57,944
The thing I remember about it is them
running out into the middle of this field
537
00:34:58,044 --> 00:35:01,844
And you couldn't see them,
there they were, like, you know,
just miles away
538
00:35:01,944 --> 00:35:05,644
There...is it really The Rutles?
It might be somebody else
539
00:35:09,244 --> 00:35:13,744
# There was no one in my life till I met you
540
00:35:14,944 --> 00:35:19,344
# You brought me love and taught me how to smile
541
00:35:19,444 --> 00:35:23,544
# You picked me up when I was feeling blue
542
00:35:24,444 --> 00:35:28,244
# From now on my future is worthwhile
543
00:35:28,544 --> 00:35:30,844
# It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
544
00:35:31,044 --> 00:35:33,344
# It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
545
00:35:33,544 --> 00:35:36,444
# It's lookin' good!
546
00:35:38,644 --> 00:35:42,744
# Now that you have given me reason to live
547
00:35:43,844 --> 00:35:47,544
# I will stay forever by your side
548
00:35:48,744 --> 00:35:52,644
# And give you all the lovin' I can give
549
00:35:54,044 --> 00:35:56,944
# Just say the word, and be my bride
550
00:35:57,744 --> 00:35:59,944
# It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
551
00:36:00,144 --> 00:36:02,244
# It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
552
00:36:02,444 --> 00:36:05,444
# It's lookin' good!
553
00:36:08,244 --> 00:36:12,544
# I'm not throwing caution to the winds, oh no
554
00:36:12,844 --> 00:36:16,444
# Love is not an easy game to play
555
00:36:17,744 --> 00:36:22,144
# Though I may not be a man of words, yeah, yeah
556
00:36:22,244 --> 00:36:26,244
# There is one thing I feel obliged to say
557
00:36:26,544 --> 00:36:28,744
# It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
558
00:36:28,944 --> 00:36:31,044
# It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
559
00:36:31,244 --> 00:36:34,144
# It's lookin' good
560
00:36:54,844 --> 00:36:56,344
You couldn't hear anything
561
00:36:56,444 --> 00:36:58,444
How long did they play?
562
00:36:58,544 --> 00:37:02,844
About twenty minutes and that was it,
off, helicopter
563
00:37:03,044 --> 00:37:07,344
Back to the Warwick Hotel,
two birds each
564
00:37:07,744 --> 00:37:11,644
In 1966 The Rutles faced the
biggest threat to their careers
565
00:37:11,744 --> 00:37:13,744
Nasty, in a widely quoted interview
566
00:37:13,844 --> 00:37:17,044
Apparently had claimed that
The Rutles were bigger than God
567
00:37:17,144 --> 00:37:21,644
And had gone on to say that God
had never had a hit record
568
00:37:25,344 --> 00:37:28,444
The story spread like
wildfire in America
569
00:37:28,544 --> 00:37:30,044
Many fans burnt their albums
570
00:37:30,144 --> 00:37:33,044
Many more burnt their fingers
attempting to burn their albums
571
00:37:33,144 --> 00:37:38,344
Album sales sky-rocketed, people
were buying them, just to burn them
572
00:37:38,444 --> 00:37:41,644
But in fact it was all a ghastly mistake
573
00:37:41,744 --> 00:37:44,344
Nasty talking to a
slightly deaf journalist
574
00:37:44,444 --> 00:37:48,344
Had claimed only that The Rutles
were bigger than Rod
575
00:37:48,444 --> 00:37:52,344
Rod Steward would not be big
for another eight years
576
00:37:52,444 --> 00:37:55,844
That's all I said you know,
now all this has to happen
577
00:37:55,944 --> 00:37:59,144
- What do you think it proves?
- I think it proves you're all daft!
578
00:37:59,244 --> 00:38:01,444
I suppose I'll get into trouble
for saying that now
579
00:38:01,544 --> 00:38:05,744
Nasty apologised to God, Rod and the press
and the tour went ahead as planned
580
00:38:05,844 --> 00:38:07,444
But it would be The Rutles last
581
00:38:07,544 --> 00:38:12,144
Playing all the places where we're supposed to play,
and we hope we can, you know, bring a bit of
582
00:38:13,144 --> 00:38:16,644
You know, je ne sais quoi to America
583
00:38:16,744 --> 00:38:21,844
At the end of it they met Bob Dylan
in the idyllic San Francisco of the mid-sixties
584
00:38:21,944 --> 00:38:27,144
And he introduced them to a strange substance,
which was to have an enormous affect on them
585
00:38:27,244 --> 00:38:29,644
Tea
586
00:38:39,944 --> 00:38:42,444
Despite warnings that it would
lead to stronger things
587
00:38:42,544 --> 00:38:45,444
The Rutles enjoyed the
pleasant effects of tea
588
00:38:45,544 --> 00:38:51,344
And it influenced enormously
their greatest work: Sgt. Rutters
589
00:38:54,244 --> 00:38:59,144
Of course the main thing that comes to my mind
with the Sgt. Rutter album is
590
00:38:59,244 --> 00:39:02,944
Getting stoned and listening to it
with the earphones you know
591
00:39:03,044 --> 00:39:06,344
Particularly the, you know, the chord
that lasted forever you know
592
00:39:06,444 --> 00:39:10,144
The release of this album,
a millstone in pop music history
593
00:39:10,244 --> 00:39:15,144
Contributed greatly to an idyllic summer of
bells, flowers and tea drinking
594
00:39:15,244 --> 00:39:19,944
It's music led thousands to
experiment with tea
595
00:39:22,944 --> 00:39:27,944
Eventually even the press found out
and offered Dirk the chance to deny it
596
00:39:28,044 --> 00:39:32,144
It's not up to me, if you come
and ask me I'm going to tell you the truth
597
00:39:32,244 --> 00:39:35,244
Because it is the truth,
I have had tea
598
00:39:35,344 --> 00:39:39,644
Lots of tea...Indian tea...
...and biscuits
599
00:39:40,844 --> 00:39:45,444
Dirk's admission created a scandal,
the press grabbed hold of the
wrong end of the stick
600
00:39:45,544 --> 00:39:48,744
And started to beat about the bush with it
601
00:39:52,544 --> 00:39:56,644
Many pop-stars were arrested
for using and possessing tea
602
00:39:56,744 --> 00:40:00,444
Nasty himself was busted by
Detective Inspector Brian Plant
603
00:40:00,544 --> 00:40:03,244
Who brought his own,
to be on the safe side
604
00:40:03,268 --> 00:40:06,368
There was an immediate outcry against this
Police persecution
605
00:40:06,392 --> 00:40:11,692
and the London Times carried a full page
petition calling for the legalization of tea
606
00:40:21,702 --> 00:40:24,202
The Rutles meanwhile
appeared live on TV
607
00:40:24,302 --> 00:40:29,702
Before a worldwide audience of two hundred million
with a song that expressed the feeling of the age
608
00:40:29,802 --> 00:40:32,102
Tea was on every-one's lips
609
00:40:32,202 --> 00:40:35,202
# ...In your own time
# Love Life
610
00:40:35,302 --> 00:40:36,502
# To live is to live...
611
00:40:41,302 --> 00:40:44,602
# Where there's a will, there's a way
612
00:40:44,802 --> 00:40:48,002
# Love is the meaning of life
613
00:40:48,202 --> 00:40:51,602
# Life is the meaning of love
614
00:40:51,902 --> 00:40:54,002
# Love Life
615
00:40:54,202 --> 00:40:56,502
# Love Life
616
00:40:56,702 --> 00:40:58,702
# Love Life
617
00:40:59,002 --> 00:41:01,502
# Love Life
618
00:41:13,602 --> 00:41:16,602
# Where there's a will, there's a way
619
00:41:16,802 --> 00:41:20,202
# Love is the meaning of life
620
00:41:20,702 --> 00:41:23,802
# Life is the meaning of love
621
00:41:23,902 --> 00:41:26,102
# Love Life
622
00:41:26,302 --> 00:41:28,502
# Love Life
623
00:41:28,602 --> 00:41:31,002
# Love Life
624
00:41:31,202 --> 00:41:32,502
# Love Life
625
00:41:32,702 --> 00:41:33,302
# Everybody!
626
00:41:33,502 --> 00:41:35,702
# Love Life
627
00:41:35,802 --> 00:41:37,102
# Love Life
628
00:41:37,302 --> 00:41:38,202
# Altogether now!
629
00:41:38,402 --> 00:41:40,202
# Love Life
630
00:41:40,402 --> 00:41:42,702
# Love Life
631
00:41:42,902 --> 00:41:44,902
# Love is the meaning of life
632
00:41:45,002 --> 00:41:47,202
# Life is the meaning of love
633
00:41:47,402 --> 00:41:49,402
# Love is the meaning of life
634
00:41:49,502 --> 00:41:51,802
# Life is the meaning of love
635
00:41:52,002 --> 00:41:54,202
# Love is the meaning of life
636
00:41:54,402 --> 00:41:56,602
# Life is the meaning of love
637
00:41:56,802 --> 00:41:58,902
# Love is the meaning of life
638
00:41:59,102 --> 00:42:01,102
# Life is the meaning of love
639
00:42:01,302 --> 00:42:03,202
# Love is the meaning of life
640
00:42:03,302 --> 00:42:06,602
# Hold my hand, yeah, yeah!
641
00:42:12,702 --> 00:42:18,502
A new form there, a slightly different form
there of choral music, with a slight difference
642
00:42:18,602 --> 00:42:22,202
We'll be back with Prince Charles
in just a moment
643
00:42:22,302 --> 00:42:25,902
"Love Life" is in many ways,
the high watermark of their careers
644
00:42:25,926 --> 00:42:32,226
From here the sands of time end, leaving them
high and dry on the beach of time
645
00:42:32,250 --> 00:42:36,950
as the tide of history rode relentlessly over them
646
00:42:39,505 --> 00:42:43,405
For a start Leggy Mountbatten
was rapidly becoming a worry
647
00:42:43,505 --> 00:42:45,505
Always emotionally involved
with them
648
00:42:45,605 --> 00:42:48,405
He had far less to do
once they ceased touring
649
00:42:48,505 --> 00:42:50,805
Of course he had other artistes
650
00:42:50,905 --> 00:42:52,505
The McKismo Brothers
651
00:42:52,605 --> 00:42:54,705
Arthur Hodson and the Kneecaps
652
00:42:54,805 --> 00:42:58,805
As well as the French
Beach Boys: Les Garcons De La Plage
653
00:42:59,105 --> 00:43:03,905
But his decision to put money
into bull-fighters as a tax dodge
654
00:43:04,005 --> 00:43:06,805
Plus his unusual personal life
655
00:43:06,905 --> 00:43:11,605
In California he'd been arrested for giving
the kiss of life to a rubber raft
656
00:43:11,705 --> 00:43:15,105
Gave increasing grounds for concern
657
00:43:15,205 --> 00:43:20,405
I asked Mick Jagger if he was aware
of these tendencies of Leggy's
658
00:43:21,005 --> 00:43:27,005
Oh yeah...Leggy yeah you're kidding,
Leggy got around a bit you know
659
00:43:27,605 --> 00:43:32,505
And that was alright, you know,
until he started going off with the bull-fighters
660
00:43:32,506 --> 00:43:34,806
I think, that...
661
00:43:34,905 --> 00:43:38,205
That era, and then I think they got
a bit disenchanted with him
662
00:43:38,305 --> 00:43:42,305
And he didn't know where to go, you know,
you know, in his life I think
663
00:43:42,405 --> 00:43:45,605
And they wanted to
control more of themselves, you know
664
00:43:45,705 --> 00:43:51,305
Stig meanwhile had fallen under the influence of
Arthur Sultan, the 'Surrey Mystic'
665
00:43:51,505 --> 00:43:55,805
And Sultan had introduced Stig
to his Ouija board work
666
00:43:56,905 --> 00:44:00,505
Arthur Sultan now invited The Rutles
on a getaway from it all
667
00:44:00,605 --> 00:44:03,605
Table-tapping weekend
near Bognor.
668
00:44:03,705 --> 00:44:07,405
As usual the
press followed
669
00:44:11,005 --> 00:44:16,005
The Bognor thing was really funny,
the "Bognor Express" they called it in the newspapers
670
00:44:16,105 --> 00:44:19,505
Some-one was very late,
one of the girls, they were always late
671
00:44:19,605 --> 00:44:23,805
One of them, I can't remember who it was,
maybe Nasty
672
00:44:23,905 --> 00:44:29,505
Thought we were trying to get on the Rutles bandwagon, you know,
The Rutles mystical bandwagon, which wasn't
true at all
673
00:44:29,605 --> 00:44:35,005
We were just as eager to find out what was going on
in this board-tapping thing at Bognor as anybody
674
00:44:42,605 --> 00:44:45,605
# In this day and age
675
00:44:46,305 --> 00:44:49,305
# Love is all the rage
676
00:44:50,305 --> 00:44:57,005
# Life goes on,
it only goes to show
677
00:44:58,005 --> 00:45:01,105
# It's not my cup of tea
678
00:45:01,405 --> 00:45:05,005
# It's all the same to me
679
00:45:05,805 --> 00:45:10,405
# For we are here today
and gone tomorrow...
680
00:45:10,505 --> 00:45:13,605
But while The Rutles sat
at the foot of the Surrey mystic
681
00:45:13,705 --> 00:45:16,005
Fate dealt them an appalling blow
682
00:45:16,105 --> 00:45:19,405
It was here that they learnt
the shocking news of their manager
683
00:45:19,505 --> 00:45:22,805
Leggy Mountbatten, tired and
despondent over the weekend
684
00:45:22,905 --> 00:45:27,905
And unable to raise any friends,
went home and tragically...
685
00:45:28,005 --> 00:45:30,805
Accepted a teaching post
in Australia
686
00:45:31,305 --> 00:45:36,205
It was a kind of funny weekend that,
and then of course at the end of it
687
00:45:36,805 --> 00:45:43,205
We found out that Leggy had gone off to Australia,
which kind of put the mockers on the whole thing really
688
00:45:43,305 --> 00:45:47,905
It was a bombshell for The Rutles.
They were shocked and stunned
689
00:45:48,005 --> 00:45:52,005
- Well we're shocked
- Yes shocked
690
00:45:52,105 --> 00:45:54,305
Shocked
691
00:45:54,405 --> 00:45:55,605
And stunned
692
00:45:55,705 --> 00:45:58,805
Yes stunned
693
00:45:58,905 --> 00:46:00,805
Very stunned
694
00:46:00,905 --> 00:46:04,805
Did Arthur Sultan have any words
of encouragement for you?
695
00:46:04,905 --> 00:46:07,405
- No
- Well yes
696
00:46:07,505 --> 00:46:10,305
Well, yes and no
697
00:46:10,905 --> 00:46:14,805
He said it took allsorts to make a world
698
00:46:14,905 --> 00:46:19,805
And that we shouldn't worry unduly
about were he'd gone
699
00:46:19,905 --> 00:46:25,605
You know he said...we shouldn't become covered
with grief at thoughts of Australia
700
00:46:27,805 --> 00:46:29,005
Because...
701
00:46:29,105 --> 00:46:34,605
He did say we could still keep in touch with him
by tapping the table
702
00:46:35,405 --> 00:46:38,605
- And postcards
- Yes
703
00:46:41,405 --> 00:46:42,805
Very stunned
704
00:46:44,829 --> 00:46:45,929
Very stunned
705
00:46:54,220 --> 00:46:58,220
It's significant that their first major flop
'Tragical History Tour'
706
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:03,220
Immediately followed the loss of Leggy.
It was not the strongest idea for a Rutles film
707
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,420
Four Oxford history professors
708
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,620
On a hitch-hiking tour of tea-shops
in the Rutland area
709
00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:12,520
And it was slammed
mercilously by the press
710
00:47:12,620 --> 00:47:15,220
# ...Talk about a month of Sundays
711
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:19,520
# Toffee-nosed wet weekend as far as I can see
712
00:47:20,620 --> 00:47:23,520
# Hey, diddle diddle
713
00:47:23,620 --> 00:47:26,520
# The cat and the fiddle
714
00:47:26,620 --> 00:47:28,620
# Piggy in the middle
715
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:30,420
# Do a poo-poo
716
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,120
# Bible punching heavyweight
717
00:47:33,220 --> 00:47:36,620
# Evangelistic boxing kangaroo
718
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:42,020
# Orang-utan and anaconda
719
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:46,220
# Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, even Pluto, too
720
00:47:47,220 --> 00:47:50,220
# Hey, diddle diddle
721
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,420
# The cat and the fiddle
722
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,620
# Piggy in the middle
723
00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:57,720
# Do a poo-poo
724
00:47:57,820 --> 00:48:01,620
# tekraaam ot tnew eiggip elttil siht
725
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:20,120
# One man's civilization
is another man's jungle, yeah
726
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,820
# They say revolution's in the air
727
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,020
# I'm dancing in my underwear
728
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,020
# 'Cause I don't care
729
00:48:30,220 --> 00:48:33,320
# Hey diddle diddle
730
00:48:33,420 --> 00:48:36,420
# The cat and the fiddle
731
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,520
# Piggy in the middle
732
00:48:38,620 --> 00:48:41,620
# Do a poo-poo
Do a poo-poo
733
00:49:18,620 --> 00:49:21,020
# This little piggy went to market
734
00:49:21,220 --> 00:49:24,020
# And this little piggy stayed home
735
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,420
# This little piggy had roast beef
736
00:49:27,620 --> 00:49:30,620
# and this little piggy had none
737
00:49:30,820 --> 00:49:34,920
# This little piggy went Wooo..oooo!
738
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,220
# All the way home
739
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,420
# This little piggy went to market...
740
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:52,620
I'm sitting in a rented limousine
in New York. And it was here...
741
00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:55,420
Well not in the limousine obviously,
but in New York
742
00:49:55,520 --> 00:50:00,620
The Rutles came in 1968,
to announce the formation of Rutle Corp
743
00:50:02,020 --> 00:50:06,420
We're here in New York
to announce the formation of Rutle Corp
744
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:10,420
Nasty and I have come over
on behalf of the other Rutles
745
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:12,620
Yes they couldn't come
746
00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:19,020
We're setting up Rutle Corp as a kind
of enterprise that people can come to us
747
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,820
And we'll help them,
we'll give them money
748
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,820
You know, if they want money,
they just come to us
749
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:29,220
Yes, instead of going to a bank,
we want to help people to help themselves
750
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:33,620
Rutle Corp did just that,
people helped themselves for years
751
00:50:33,720 --> 00:50:38,020
At one stage they were losing money faster
than the British Government
752
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,520
There are continued allegations
that Rutle Corp is going bankrupt
753
00:50:41,620 --> 00:50:45,720
Eric Manchester, the Rutles press agent:
Are these allegations true?
754
00:50:45,820 --> 00:50:50,420
No, no, they're conjecture you know,
it's only a rumour
755
00:50:50,720 --> 00:50:55,320
I think you'll find the way you get success,
you always find this kind of rumour. No...
756
00:50:55,420 --> 00:50:58,420
So the stories of the thefts,
they're not true also?
757
00:50:58,620 --> 00:51:02,220
No, they're greatly exaggerated,
greatly exaggerated
758
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:04,220
It's bad, you know,
things are going
759
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:08,020
But nothing like the rate,
that people indicate
760
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:11,620
The trouble is that people feel
because these boys are The Rutles
761
00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:15,220
People can come in and help themselves
to whatever they want. And this is just not on
762
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:19,320
And we're putting a stop to this,
and we're are doing, you know,
it's almost dried up
763
00:51:19,420 --> 00:51:23,620
Things have gone, I wont deny it,
television sets
764
00:51:23,720 --> 00:51:26,420
The odd car belonging to the company
765
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:27,920
Has disappeared
766
00:51:28,020 --> 00:51:31,320
But...
it's not extreme you know
767
00:51:31,420 --> 00:51:35,420
I did come in once and found that
my office had been nicked
768
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:39,020
But it had been nicked by Ron Decline,
who we'd called in
769
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,220
To stop this sort of flow of goods from
the building, so that was alright
770
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:47,920
So once you see this stop do you feel
that Rutle Corp will continue into the future?
771
00:51:48,020 --> 00:51:54,120
Absolutely. I feel that once we've put a stop
to this sort of bit of petty pilfering
772
00:51:54,220 --> 00:51:58,620
Rutle Corp will last for a
very, very, very...
773
00:52:00,420 --> 00:52:05,020
For awhile, three chapters of the Redditch Hell's Angels
lived in the basement of Rutle Corp
774
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,920
Before Stig had the nerve
to ask them to leave
775
00:52:08,020 --> 00:52:11,120
- Who hurt Stig?
- One of the girls
776
00:52:11,220 --> 00:52:14,120
- Who?
- Big Valerie here
777
00:52:14,220 --> 00:52:17,420
We're very upset,
but there's not much we can do about it
778
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,520
- Why not?
- Well...she'll thump me
779
00:52:20,444 --> 00:52:22,744
So...Stig injured by big Valerie
780
00:52:24,260 --> 00:52:27,160
The Rutles next opened a
clothes boutique in London
781
00:52:27,260 --> 00:52:30,160
Which lost nearly a million dollars
in only three weeks
782
00:52:30,260 --> 00:52:31,960
Before Nasty blew it up
783
00:52:51,100 --> 00:52:54,200
# I have always thought
784
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,600
# in the back of my mind
785
00:52:57,700 --> 00:53:00,600
# cheese and onions
786
00:53:04,700 --> 00:53:07,800
# I have always thought
787
00:53:08,100 --> 00:53:11,400
# that the world was unkind
788
00:53:11,500 --> 00:53:14,300
# cheese and onions
789
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,300
# Do I have to spell it out?
790
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:31,800
# C-H-E-E-S-E A-N-D O-N-I-O-N-S
791
00:53:31,900 --> 00:53:34,300
# Oh, no.
792
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,200
# Man and machine
793
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,600
# Keep yourself clean
794
00:53:44,900 --> 00:53:47,700
# Or be a has-been
795
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,200
# Like a dinosaur...
796
00:53:51,900 --> 00:53:54,600
# Man or device
797
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:57,800
# For everything nice
798
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,700
# You'd better think twice
799
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:05,300
# At least once more...
800
00:54:05,500 --> 00:54:08,300
# Man and machine
801
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:11,600
# Keep yourself clean
802
00:54:12,100 --> 00:54:14,900
# Or be a has-been
803
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:18,600
# Like a dinosaur...
804
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:21,900
# Man or device
805
00:54:22,300 --> 00:54:25,300
# For everything nice
806
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:29,000
# You'd better think twice
807
00:54:29,700 --> 00:54:32,700
# At least once more!
808
00:54:33,100 --> 00:54:35,900
# Man and machine
809
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:39,200
# Keep yourself clean
810
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:42,600
# Or be a has-been
811
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,100
# Like a dinosaur!
812
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,700
# Man or device
813
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,200
# For everything nice
814
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:55,000
# You'd better think twice...
815
00:54:55,100 --> 00:54:58,200
Hey there, who's your friend?
Get his teeth cleaned
816
00:54:58,300 --> 00:55:01,900
- Oh hello Nasty
- Hello Dirk
817
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:06,600
- Oh that's torn it
- What are you doing Stig?
818
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:11,600
- Just getting out of here
- Well I'm gonna get out of here too
819
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:21,800
Personal problems now began to split
The Rutles into smithereens
820
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:27,300
They would sing together, but they wouldn't talk.
Pretty soon they wouldn't even sing
821
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:32,100
By March 1969 things had got so bad within the group
822
00:55:32,201 --> 00:55:34,599
that both Dirk and Nasty got married
823
00:55:35,123 --> 00:55:38,323
not to each other, of course... to women
824
00:55:40,545 --> 00:55:42,545
Dirk had become enamoured with Martini
825
00:55:42,645 --> 00:55:46,545
A French actress who spoke no English
and precious little French
826
00:55:46,645 --> 00:55:50,045
When they married in London
the service was conducted in Spanish
827
00:55:50,145 --> 00:55:52,045
Italian and Chinese,
just to be on the safe side
828
00:55:52,941 --> 00:55:56,041
I love you...
829
00:55:58,261 --> 00:56:01,061
It's you I love...
830
00:56:02,161 --> 00:56:05,861
Today is our wedding day...
831
00:56:05,961 --> 00:56:09,161
For you always I will wai...
832
00:56:10,761 --> 00:56:12,561
G, B, B, E...
833
00:56:12,661 --> 00:56:13,961
F...
834
00:56:14,061 --> 00:56:16,561
- D
- D...D...
835
00:56:26,261 --> 00:56:29,261
That's nice...
836
00:56:39,261 --> 00:56:42,361
# Time goes by, as we all know
837
00:56:42,461 --> 00:56:44,861
# Naturally
838
00:56:45,561 --> 00:56:48,661
# People come and people go
839
00:56:48,761 --> 00:56:50,961
# Naturally
840
00:56:51,061 --> 00:56:53,861
# Let's be natural
841
00:56:54,461 --> 00:56:57,461
# Ever since the world began
842
00:56:57,561 --> 00:57:00,261
# Let's be natural
843
00:57:00,561 --> 00:57:03,561
# Every woman, every man
844
00:57:03,661 --> 00:57:06,461
# Let's be natural
845
00:57:07,061 --> 00:57:09,761
# Has followed nature's plan
846
00:57:09,861 --> 00:57:12,661
# Let's be natural
847
00:57:19,261 --> 00:57:22,061
# Oh, yeah
848
00:57:22,861 --> 00:57:26,061
Nasty meanwhile visited
an exhibition of broken art
849
00:57:26,161 --> 00:57:28,661
At the Pretentious Gallery, Soho
850
00:57:28,761 --> 00:57:33,761
The art exhibits had all been dropped
out of tall buildings and then put on display
851
00:57:33,861 --> 00:57:37,861
Amongst the little piles of rubble,
Nasty found the artist herself
852
00:57:37,961 --> 00:57:42,861
Chastity, a simple German girl,
whose father had invented WW2
853
00:57:43,985 --> 00:57:46,685
Chastity fascinated him
with her destructo art
854
00:57:47,409 --> 00:57:50,009
They talked all through the night
as she outlined her plans
855
00:57:50,033 --> 00:57:52,033
to drop artists out of planes
856
00:57:53,140 --> 00:57:55,040
Nasty adored her
857
00:57:55,140 --> 00:57:59,740
They announced their engagement, next day at a
press conference held in his shower
858
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:01,240
What are you doing this for?
859
00:58:01,340 --> 00:58:05,340
We're doing this for peace,
and basically to show that the world is...
860
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:09,340
You know, going astray, in it's thinking
861
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:13,240
- What are you doing?
- We're getting wet in a shower
862
00:58:13,340 --> 00:58:17,540
Because basically we talked it over,
Chastity and myself
863
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,640
And we came to the conclusion
864
00:58:19,740 --> 00:58:24,940
That civilisation is nothing more
than an effective sewage system
865
00:58:25,140 --> 00:58:29,240
And so by the use of plumbing
we hope to demonstrate this to the world
866
00:58:29,964 --> 00:58:33,064
Nasty and Chastity now had plunged
themselves into the art world
867
00:58:33,088 --> 00:58:36,688
Together they made a film called
A Thousand Feet Of Film
868
00:58:37,612 --> 00:58:46,012
# You need feet, to stand up straight with,
869
00:58:46,036 --> 00:58:54,536
# You need feet, to kick your friends,
870
00:58:54,560 --> 00:59:03,460
# You need feet, to keep your socks on,
871
00:59:03,484 --> 00:59:11,784
# And stop your legs from, fraying at the ends.
872
00:59:12,508 --> 00:59:20,708
# You need feet, to walk to Scunthorpe,
873
00:59:20,732 --> 00:59:29,232
# Or to dance, the hoochy-coo,
874
00:59:29,256 --> 00:59:38,056
# Yes the whole world needs
feet for something
875
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:44,780
# And I need feet, to run away from you.
876
00:59:46,303 --> 00:59:49,303
Stig meanwhile,
had hidden in the background
so much
877
00:59:49,403 --> 00:59:52,803
That in 1969 a rumour went
around that he was dead
878
00:59:52,827 --> 00:59:54,727
He was supposed to been killed
879
00:59:54,751 --> 00:59:56,751
in a flashfire at at water bed shop
880
00:59:56,775 --> 01:00:01,775
and replaced by a plastic and wax replica
from Madame Tussauds
881
01:00:02,503 --> 01:00:06,803
Several so called 'facts'
helped the emergence of this rumour
882
01:00:06,903 --> 01:00:11,003
One: he...he never said
anything publicly
883
01:00:11,203 --> 01:00:16,003
Even as the 'quiet one',
he'd not said a word since 1966
884
01:00:16,603 --> 01:00:22,303
Two: on the cover of their latest album,
'Shabby Road' he's wearing no trousers
885
01:00:22,403 --> 01:00:25,703
An Italian way of
indicating death
886
01:00:25,803 --> 01:00:31,703
Three: Nasty supposedly sings
"I buried Stig" on "I Am The Waitress"
887
01:00:31,803 --> 01:00:34,803
In fact he sings
"E burres stigano"
888
01:00:34,903 --> 01:00:38,903
Which is very bad Spanish for
"Have you a water buffalo?"
889
01:00:39,003 --> 01:00:41,903
Four: on the cover of the Sgt. Rutter album
890
01:00:42,003 --> 01:00:48,003
Stig is leaning in the exact position of a dying Yeti
from the 'Rutland Book of the Dead'
891
01:00:49,103 --> 01:00:55,303
Five: if you sing the title of
"Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band" backwards
892
01:00:55,403 --> 01:01:00,303
it is supposed to sound very like
"Stig has been dead for ages honestly"
893
01:01:00,403 --> 01:01:06,303
In fact it sounds uncannily like
"dnab bulc ylno srettur tnaegres"
894
01:01:06,403 --> 01:01:08,503
Palatable nonsense
895
01:01:08,603 --> 01:01:14,003
Stig was of course, far from dead,
although not in fact, far from Esher
896
01:01:14,303 --> 01:01:16,903
He'd fallen in bed
with Gertrude Strange
897
01:01:17,003 --> 01:01:20,503
A large breasted biologically
accommodating American girl
898
01:01:20,603 --> 01:01:23,503
Who's father had
invented the limpet mine
899
01:01:23,603 --> 01:01:26,703
When they met, it was
lust at first sight
900
01:01:26,803 --> 01:01:30,503
Barry meanwhile had also spent a
year in bed as a tax dodge
901
01:01:30,603 --> 01:01:34,003
Eric Manchester thinks that
he'd either received appalling financial advice
902
01:01:34,103 --> 01:01:38,203
or that he was desperately trying to start
a "Barry is also dead" rumour
903
01:01:38,303 --> 01:01:42,503
When he finally got up
Rutle Corps was in a perilous financial plight
904
01:01:42,903 --> 01:01:46,303
Nasty had flown back in a hurry
from his honeymoon rally in Nuremburg
905
01:01:46,403 --> 01:01:49,703
To meet the most feared
promoter in the world
906
01:01:49,803 --> 01:01:52,503
Ron Decline
907
01:02:00,603 --> 01:02:03,703
Decline had a reputation
as a hard man
908
01:02:03,803 --> 01:02:06,303
His only weak spot
was dishonesty
909
01:02:06,403 --> 01:02:11,003
Any-one was free to inspect his books,
but no-one could find his accounts
910
01:02:11,103 --> 01:02:15,003
He struck terror into
the hearts of his subordinates
911
01:02:16,303 --> 01:02:20,603
People would commit suicide
rather than meet him
912
01:02:21,103 --> 01:02:25,603
In business his left hand never knew
who his right hand was doing
913
01:02:25,703 --> 01:02:30,003
Nasty adored him,
he was a man after his own wallet
914
01:02:37,403 --> 01:02:41,903
Decline promised The Rutles that if they let him
take care of their royalties
915
01:02:42,003 --> 01:02:45,403
They would never have
to worry about money again
916
01:02:45,503 --> 01:02:49,603
Stig meanwhile was accepting the
financial advice of Billy Kodak
917
01:02:49,703 --> 01:02:53,903
Whilst Dirk had invited Arnold
Schwarzenweisengreenenbluenbraunenburger
918
01:02:54,003 --> 01:02:58,803
To handle his end of the name,
Barry was consulting the I Ching every
three and a half minutes
919
01:02:58,903 --> 01:03:00,903
There was a plethora of lawyers
920
01:03:01,003 --> 01:03:06,203
Suddenly every-one became
amazingly
921
01:03:06,303 --> 01:03:11,103
I remember, I'd get up in the morning, sue some-one,
check in the papers I hadn't been fired
922
01:03:11,203 --> 01:03:16,103
Go to the office, sue some-one,
pick up the morning's writ, sue the bank
923
01:03:16,203 --> 01:03:19,003
Go out to lunch,
sue the restaurant
924
01:03:19,103 --> 01:03:22,203
Get back in, collect the writs that
had been received that afternoon
925
01:03:22,303 --> 01:03:27,503
Read the papers, phone the papers,
sue the papers, and go home
926
01:03:27,603 --> 01:03:28,803
To the wife
927
01:03:28,903 --> 01:03:33,503
They're asking me "Where's the money, where's the money?"
I mean I don't know where the money is
928
01:03:33,603 --> 01:03:36,103
I've never been good with figures,
you know that
929
01:03:36,203 --> 01:03:39,403
I don't know anything about math,
it was never my good subject
930
01:03:39,503 --> 01:03:43,503
I don't know where the money is, but if you
need money, I'll give you money
931
01:03:43,603 --> 01:03:47,203
But this...
this, really, surprises me...
932
01:03:47,303 --> 01:03:48,503
I'm really shocked
933
01:03:48,603 --> 01:03:53,103
Because I thought we had
something here a lot stronger than just business
934
01:03:53,203 --> 01:03:58,103
I mean you know, I love you
more than I love my own family, I do
935
01:03:58,203 --> 01:04:01,903
I wanna protect you, I wanna help you
936
01:04:02,003 --> 01:04:04,503
I wanna protect you
from the outside world
937
01:04:04,603 --> 01:04:08,603
Protect you...protect you from...
...people like me
938
01:04:08,627 --> 01:04:11,727
You know... and I think
I'm doing a good job
939
01:04:12,982 --> 01:04:16,782
At the final meeting a hundred and
thirty four legal people and accountants
940
01:04:16,882 --> 01:04:19,582
Filed into a small
eight by ten room
941
01:04:19,682 --> 01:04:22,182
Only eighty seven came out alive
942
01:04:22,282 --> 01:04:24,382
The black hole of Savile Row
943
01:04:24,482 --> 01:04:28,782
Had taken toll of some of the finest
merchant banking brains of a generation
944
01:04:28,882 --> 01:04:30,882
Luckily that's not very serious
945
01:04:30,982 --> 01:04:34,182
But The Rutles were obviously
self-destructing fast
946
01:04:34,282 --> 01:04:36,782
In the midst of all
this public bickering
947
01:04:36,882 --> 01:04:41,382
'Let It Rot' was released as a
film, a album and a lawsuit
948
01:04:41,582 --> 01:04:45,982
In 1970 Dirk sued
Stig, Nasty and Barry
949
01:04:46,082 --> 01:04:48,682
Barry sued
Dirk, Nasty and Stig
950
01:04:48,782 --> 01:04:51,182
Nasty sued Barry,
Dirk and Stig
951
01:04:51,282 --> 01:04:53,982
And Stig sued
himself accidentally
952
01:04:54,082 --> 01:04:56,382
It was the beginning of
a golden era for lawyers
953
01:04:56,482 --> 01:04:59,682
But for The Rutles, live
on a London rooftop
954
01:04:59,782 --> 01:05:02,882
It was the beginning of the end
955
01:05:11,382 --> 01:05:14,882
# Workin' up a fever in a one-horse town
956
01:05:14,982 --> 01:05:18,582
# Was a jockey by the name of Joe
957
01:05:19,182 --> 01:05:22,682
# He didn't have a lot of what you might call luck
958
01:05:22,782 --> 01:05:26,482
# But he had a lot of get up n' go
959
01:05:26,982 --> 01:05:30,382
# Get up n' go
Get up n' go
960
01:05:30,982 --> 01:05:34,182
# Get up n' go back home
961
01:05:34,882 --> 01:05:38,282
# Get up n' go
Get up n' go
962
01:05:38,882 --> 01:05:42,082
# Get up n' go back home
963
01:05:58,382 --> 01:06:01,582
# Tall in the saddle in a one-horse town
964
01:06:01,682 --> 01:06:05,582
# Joe, he knew someday he'd hit the road
965
01:06:05,782 --> 01:06:09,382
# He traded with a dealer for a pick-up truck
966
01:06:09,482 --> 01:06:13,182
# And went lookin' for a medium load
967
01:06:13,782 --> 01:06:17,182
# Get up n' go
Get up n' go
968
01:06:17,682 --> 01:06:20,882
# Get up n' go back home
969
01:06:21,682 --> 01:06:24,982
# Get up n' go
Get up n' go
970
01:06:25,582 --> 01:06:28,682
# Get up n' go back home
971
01:06:47,582 --> 01:06:50,982
# Ketchup n' go
Ketchup n' go
972
01:06:51,482 --> 01:06:54,782
# Ketchup and go back home
973
01:06:55,382 --> 01:06:58,682
# Get up n' go
Get up n' go
974
01:06:59,282 --> 01:07:02,382
# Get up n' go back home
975
01:07:02,882 --> 01:07:06,582
# Ketchup n' go
Get up n' go
976
01:07:06,982 --> 01:07:10,182
# Get up n' go back home
977
01:07:10,882 --> 01:07:14,282
# Get up n' go
Get up n' go
978
01:07:14,782 --> 01:07:17,182
# Get up n' go back home
979
01:07:29,706 --> 01:07:32,806
Come along!
980
01:07:34,230 --> 01:07:35,630
Come! Get going!
981
01:07:46,061 --> 01:07:50,561
Like any of the other enormous
music...popular music phenomenom�s
982
01:07:50,661 --> 01:07:55,261
Sinatra, and Presley, and The Rutles,
and then, you know, some people say...
983
01:07:55,361 --> 01:07:59,061
Well you know "Its time, every ten years,
who will be the next Rutles?" you know
984
01:07:59,161 --> 01:08:02,361
I don't think there
will be a next Rutles
985
01:08:02,461 --> 01:08:07,261
Sixteen years after the fresh-faced
prefab four first burst into the public eye
986
01:08:07,361 --> 01:08:11,761
And eight years after they split up,
just where are The Rutles today?
987
01:08:11,861 --> 01:08:15,961
Dirk has formed with his wife Martini,
a punk rock group
988
01:08:16,061 --> 01:08:18,361
called The Punk Floyd
989
01:08:18,461 --> 01:08:21,461
He sings, and she doesn't
990
01:08:23,261 --> 01:08:29,061
Nasty has turned his back on the world
and sits with his thoughts and his memories
991
01:08:30,061 --> 01:08:35,661
Barry is a hairdresser in the Reading area,
with two fully equipped salons of his own
992
01:08:37,661 --> 01:08:42,361
While Stig works for
Air India as a air-hostess
993
01:08:43,461 --> 01:08:46,061
Fame is a fickle mistress
994
01:08:46,161 --> 01:08:49,961
Just how many people remember
The Rutles today?
995
01:08:50,061 --> 01:08:53,961
We asked the public
just what is a Rutle?
996
01:08:54,061 --> 01:08:58,061
Excuse me madam, we're doing a documentary,
and I wonder if you'd answer a few questions
997
01:08:58,161 --> 01:08:59,961
Sorry I don't answer questions
998
01:09:00,061 --> 01:09:03,161
It wont take a second of your time, really,
we've just got the camera rolling right away here
999
01:09:03,261 --> 01:09:06,461
We're from England, and we're making a documentary
and we just want one question, please
1000
01:09:06,561 --> 01:09:09,661
- Alright
- Thank you very much, just stand right here ok?
1001
01:09:09,761 --> 01:09:13,361
- Who were The Rutles?
- I don't know
1002
01:09:13,461 --> 01:09:15,561
- Come on you must know
- No I'm sorry I don't know
1003
01:09:15,661 --> 01:09:17,261
- Yes you do know
- No well I don't know
1004
01:09:17,361 --> 01:09:19,061
- Who were The Rutles?
- I don't know
1005
01:09:19,161 --> 01:09:20,461
- You do know!
- No I don't know!
1006
01:09:20,561 --> 01:09:22,561
- You do know! The Rutles!
- I don't know who they are!
1007
01:09:22,761 --> 01:09:25,361
- Who were The Rutles? Please tell us
- I don't know who they are
1008
01:09:25,461 --> 01:09:26,961
- Who were The Rutles?
- I don't know!
1009
01:09:27,061 --> 01:09:27,961
- You do know!
- I don't!
1010
01:09:28,061 --> 01:09:30,161
- You do know! Who were The Rutles?!
- I don't know!
1011
01:09:30,261 --> 01:09:31,161
Who were The Rutles?!
1012
01:09:31,261 --> 01:09:35,161
The Rutles were a mop-top English pop quartet
of the sixties who set the foot of the world a-tapping
1013
01:09:35,261 --> 01:09:39,561
With their catchy melodies, their whacky
Liverpool humour and their zany off-the-wall antics
1014
01:09:39,661 --> 01:09:42,161
Epitomised in such movies as
"A Hard Days Rut" and "Ouch!"
1015
01:09:42,261 --> 01:09:44,961
Dirk and Nasty,
the acknowledged leaders of the group
1016
01:09:45,061 --> 01:09:49,461
Were perfectly complimented by
Stig, the quiet one, and Barry, the noisy one
1017
01:09:49,561 --> 01:09:52,961
To form a heart-warming, cheeky,
lovable, talented
1018
01:09:53,061 --> 01:09:55,561
Non-Jewish group
who would gladden the hearts of the world
1019
01:09:55,661 --> 01:09:58,061
- Thank you very much
- In 1962 they played The Cavern.
1020
01:09:58,161 --> 01:10:01,461
- After that they spent several months in Hamburg.
- Yes, thank you very much indeed
1021
01:10:01,561 --> 01:10:05,161
Then in 1962 they released
their first single "Twist and Rut"
1022
01:10:05,261 --> 01:10:07,161
Yes thank you very much, thank you
1023
01:10:07,261 --> 01:10:10,461
Will you shut up?!
1024
01:10:10,561 --> 01:10:14,161
From New York
back to London
1025
01:10:14,261 --> 01:10:19,961
I'm standing on the crossing,
where the Rutles legend ended
1026
01:10:20,061 --> 01:10:25,961
Here it was that the prefab four
Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry
1027
01:10:26,461 --> 01:10:31,161
The Rutles, the singing phenomena,
who made the sixties what they are today
1028
01:10:31,261 --> 01:10:34,261
Here it was that indeed......!
1029
01:10:37,761 --> 01:10:42,561
Mick, why do you think
The Rutles broke up?
1030
01:10:42,661 --> 01:10:46,761
Why do I think they did?
Why did The Rutles break up?
1031
01:10:47,061 --> 01:10:53,161
Women. Just women,
getting in the way
1032
01:10:53,361 --> 01:10:55,661
Cherchez la femme,
you know
1033
01:10:55,761 --> 01:10:58,761
Do you think they'll ever
get back together again?
1034
01:10:58,861 --> 01:11:00,761
I hope not
1035
01:11:00,861 --> 01:11:04,661
# People were proud
in Doubleback Alley
1036
01:11:04,861 --> 01:11:08,861
# Neighbours were loud,
but ever so pally
1037
01:11:08,961 --> 01:11:12,661
# People would shout,
joking about
1038
01:11:13,061 --> 01:11:16,961
# The smoke and the soot,
Mother would put
1039
01:11:17,061 --> 01:11:20,061
# The milk bottles out
1040
01:11:21,061 --> 01:11:25,061
# We had a good time
in Doubleback Alley
1041
01:11:25,161 --> 01:11:29,161
# With fences to climb,
and Father O'Malley
1042
01:11:29,261 --> 01:11:32,761
# To clip your ear,
and steer you clear
1043
01:11:32,861 --> 01:11:36,761
# Of the funny man
in the ice cream van
1044
01:11:36,861 --> 01:11:40,061
# Who talked so queer
1045
01:11:41,161 --> 01:11:48,661
# Doubleback Alley takes me back
and in my mind I see
1046
01:11:50,502 --> 01:11:57,502
# Happy, smiling faces if
I flog my memory
1047
01:11:58,302 --> 01:12:01,902
# People were proud
in Doubleback Alley
1048
01:12:02,202 --> 01:12:06,102
# Neighbors were loud but ever so pally
1049
01:12:06,202 --> 01:12:09,802
# People would shout, joking about
1050
01:12:10,302 --> 01:12:14,302
# The smoke and the soot, mother would put
1051
01:12:14,402 --> 01:12:17,002
# The milk bottles out
1052
01:12:18,745 --> 01:12:22,445
# We had a good time in Doubleback Alley
1053
01:12:22,469 --> 01:12:26,569
# With fences to climb and Father O'Malley
1054
01:12:26,593 --> 01:12:30,093
# To clip your ear and steer you clear
1055
01:12:30,117 --> 01:12:34,117
# Of the funny man in the ice cream van
1056
01:12:34,141 --> 01:12:37,041
# Who talked so queer
1057
01:12:38,944 --> 01:12:45,444
# Doubleback Alley takes me back
and in my mind I see
1058
01:12:47,144 --> 01:12:50,544
# Happy, smiling faces if
I flog my memory
88434
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