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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
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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
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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!
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But I know I can pick up what
you're saying baby!
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The scene is here in Flushing!
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The whole world's eyes
are on Flushing!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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So clearly every-one had tuned into that week's show,
just to see The Rutles
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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
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♪ Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
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♪ Hold my hand and I'll see you home
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♪ I want to tell you I'm in love with you
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♪ Completely
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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
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♪ And darling, it's a certainty, oh
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♪ Please, please, hold my hand
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♪ Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
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♪ Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
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♪ Hold my hand and I'll see you home
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♪ Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
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♪ Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
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♪ Hold my hand and I'll see you home
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♪ Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
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♪ Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
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♪ Hold my hand and I'll see you home
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♪ Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
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♪ Hold my hand, yeah, yeah
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♪ Hold my hand and I'll see you home
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The Rutles music meanwhile
had been attracting respectable critical attention
336
00:23:11,213 --> 00:23:14,811
'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
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We asked him just how good,
musically, were The Rutles
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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
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We asked him just how good,
musically, were The Rutles
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Listen, look it's very simply, musicological
and ethically
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The Rutles were essentially empirical
maise-longues so they rhythmically radical
345
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Yet verbally passé and temporarily
transcended lyrical content
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Welded with historically innovative melodically
material, transposed and transmogrified
347
00:24:03,790 --> 00:24:07,888
By the angst of the Rutland ethic
experience, which elevated them
348
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From essentially alpha exponents of in essence merely beta
potential harmonic material
349
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Into the prime cultural exponents
of Aeolian codensic cosmic stanza form
350
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But he didn't really
tell us either
351
00:24:23,981 --> 00:24:30,278
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
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I'm standing by the banks of the Mississippi
in Louisiana, the cradle of the blues
354
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That's black music
sung mainly by whites
355
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And we're here to find out
the black origins of Rutle music
356
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I spoke with Blind Lemon Pie.
357
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Well everything I learned,
I learned from The Rutles
358
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From The Rutles, really?
359
00:25:03,363 --> 00:25:06,162
Yes, everything
360
00:25:06,462 --> 00:25:09,861
But surely you were singing the blues
back in the early thirties
361
00:25:09,961 --> 00:25:13,159
No, I was working on the railroad
362
00:25:13,259 --> 00:25:16,358
I worked on the railroad for thirty years
or more
363
00:25:16,458 --> 00:25:23,055
Until I heard The Rutles.
and I decided, that that's my type of music
364
00:25:23,654 --> 00:25:29,552
I'm gonna leave the railroad, and I became a musician
and I've been starving ever since
365
00:25:30,052 --> 00:25:34,250
- So where did Rutle music originate?
- Next door
366
00:25:34,350 --> 00:25:37,648
- Next door?
- Next door to Ruttling Orange Peel
367
00:25:37,748 --> 00:25:44,945
Yes sir, I originated The Rutles.
They got it all from me. Every single bit of it
368
00:25:45,045 --> 00:25:48,144
- Well how do you mean?
- Well sir, they come here
369
00:25:48,244 --> 00:25:53,541
And they took everything I ever written.
Those four guys from Liverpool came here
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- He's lyin'!
- I ain't lyin'!
371
00:25:55,340 --> 00:25:58,239
- He's always lyin'!
- I ain't lyin'! I ain't lyin'!
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Every time there's a documentary on white music around here,
he claims he started it all
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I did, I did, I did!
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00:26:05,236 --> 00:26:09,034
Last week he claimed
he started The Everly Brothers
375
00:26:09,134 --> 00:26:13,632
- Frank Sinatra and Laurence Wells!
- I did, I did!
- He's always lyin'!
376
00:26:15,532 --> 00:26:20,529
Well we seem to be rather wasting our time
here in New Orleans
377
00:26:20,629 --> 00:26:22,728
Despite the expense
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00:26:22,828 --> 00:26:25,427
Still it's pretty isn't it?
379
00:26:25,928 --> 00:26:28,627
Nasty had written and published
a bestselling book:
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"Out Of Me Head"
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Only one media
remained unconquered
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The cinema
383
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In 1965 "A Hard Day's Rut"
changed all that
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♪ I feel good
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♪ I feel bad
386
00:26:41,721 --> 00:26:43,220
♪ I feel happy
387
00:26:43,420 --> 00:26:44,620
♪ I feel sad
388
00:26:44,820 --> 00:26:47,518
♪ Am I in love?
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♪ I must be in love
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00:26:51,317 --> 00:26:52,816
♪ I feel rich
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♪ I feel poor
392
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♪ I'm in doubt
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♪ I feel sure
394
00:26:58,014 --> 00:27:00,613
♪ Am I in love?
395
00:27:00,713 --> 00:27:03,611
♪ I must be in love
396
00:27:05,810 --> 00:27:11,008
♪ Any time of the day I can see
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00:27:11,108 --> 00:27:16,006
♪ Her face, when I close my eyes
398
00:27:17,605 --> 00:27:18,904
♪ She's a dream
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00:27:19,104 --> 00:27:20,404
♪ She is real
400
00:27:20,604 --> 00:27:22,003
♪ Can't explain
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00:27:22,203 --> 00:27:23,602
♪ How I feel
402
00:27:23,802 --> 00:27:26,601
♪ Am I in love?
403
00:27:26,801 --> 00:27:29,700
♪ I must be in love
404
00:27:44,993 --> 00:27:50,191
♪ Any time of the day I can see
405
00:27:50,291 --> 00:27:55,188
♪ Her face, when I close my eyes
406
00:27:56,588 --> 00:27:57,987
♪ Am I dead
407
00:27:58,187 --> 00:27:59,686
♪ Or alive?
408
00:27:59,886 --> 00:28:01,386
♪ Can my poor heart
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♪ Survive?
410
00:28:02,985 --> 00:28:05,784
♪ Am I in love?
411
00:28:05,984 --> 00:28:08,782
♪ I must be in love
412
00:28:09,682 --> 00:28:10,981
♪ I feel good
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00:28:11,181 --> 00:28:12,581
♪ I feel bad
414
00:28:12,781 --> 00:28:14,380
♪ I feel happy
415
00:28:14,580 --> 00:28:15,779
♪ I feel sad
416
00:28:15,979 --> 00:28:18,578
♪ Am I in love?
417
00:28:19,178 --> 00:28:21,977
♪ I must be in love
418
00:28:22,177 --> 00:28:25,375
♪ I must be in love
419
00:28:25,575 --> 00:28:28,574
♪ I must be in love
420
00:28:28,774 --> 00:28:31,772
♪ I must be in love
421
00:28:36,028 --> 00:28:38,527
Roger McGough
is a Liverpool poet
422
00:28:38,627 --> 00:28:42,126
He's the author of many books
set in and around Liverpool
423
00:28:42,226 --> 00:28:47,223
Including "Mersey Sound", "Gig",
"The Liverpool Scene" and two of
his Liverpool poems are
424
00:28:47,323 --> 00:28:50,622
In the "The Oxford Book of
Twentieth Century's English Verse"
425
00:28:50,722 --> 00:28:54,920
He was born in Liverpool, attended school in
Liverpool, was even married in Liverpool
426
00:28:55,020 --> 00:28:57,719
And his football team is
of course Everton
427
00:28:57,819 --> 00:29:00,318
He's a member of the "The Scaffold",
a light comedy group
428
00:29:00,418 --> 00:29:02,917
Who played The Cavern
during the early sixties
429
00:29:03,016 --> 00:29:09,314
And during those incredible years he lived, wrote,
loved, watched football and drank in Liverpool
430
00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:13,112
- Roger, did you know The Rutles?
- Oh yes yes
431
00:29:13,212 --> 00:29:19,209
Roger McGough, Liverpool poet, writer, author,
humorist, bon-vivre, and a man who knew The Rutles!
432
00:29:20,566 --> 00:29:21,365
Australia
433
00:29:22,265 --> 00:29:22,865
Canada
434
00:29:23,664 --> 00:29:24,564
Cleveland
435
00:29:25,464 --> 00:29:30,461
The Rutles were now world-wide successes.
They'd rubbed shoulders with the great
436
00:29:30,561 --> 00:29:35,059
Their pictures were everywhere.
Their names endorsed a thousand products
437
00:29:35,159 --> 00:29:39,357
From tee-shirts to garter belts
to pillowcases
438
00:29:39,457 --> 00:29:42,156
Leggy was besieged by merchandisers
439
00:29:42,256 --> 00:29:46,254
We felt every girl in America
is gonna to want to sleep with a Rutle
440
00:29:46,354 --> 00:29:49,953
Yes we have a complete line of Rutles
products all ready to go
441
00:29:50,053 --> 00:29:54,751
The Rutle tee-shirt, the Rutle plate, the Rutle cup,
the Rutle acne cream, the Rutle hairclips
442
00:29:54,851 --> 00:29:58,849
All a complete line of Rutles products,
and all I need from you is just your word and
443
00:29:58,949 --> 00:30:00,748
- We're in business.
- We're in business?
444
00:30:00,848 --> 00:30:02,247
I like the way you work
445
00:30:02,347 --> 00:30:07,145
Brian Thigh was a top record
executive in London in 1962
446
00:30:07,245 --> 00:30:13,142
Mr. Thigh, you've been known for many many years
as the man who turned down The Rutles
447
00:30:16,541 --> 00:30:17,640
Yeah that's right
448
00:30:17,740 --> 00:30:20,539
You said guitar groups
were on the way out and
449
00:30:20,639 --> 00:30:25,337
Would never make any money
at all in the sixties
450
00:30:26,337 --> 00:30:28,036
Yes I did
451
00:30:28,136 --> 00:30:33,533
You turned your back on all those millions
of sales, all those hundreds of gold records
452
00:30:36,132 --> 00:30:38,731
Yeah, yeah that's right
453
00:30:38,831 --> 00:30:41,530
- What's it like to be such an asshole?
- What?!
454
00:30:41,554 --> 00:30:44,553
Some people say you've been staying away
from Liverpool now you're famous
455
00:30:44,677 --> 00:30:47,126
No we haven't been staying away,
as much as not coming here
456
00:30:47,950 --> 00:30:50,149
Some people say it's six months
since you came back here
457
00:30:50,173 --> 00:30:53,772
- Well that's the sort of thing some people would say
- Nevertheless it has been six months
458
00:30:53,795 --> 00:30:55,795
Now you're saying it... why don't
you ask me where I've been?
459
00:30:55,819 --> 00:30:57,818
- Where have you been?
- I'm not telling you
460
00:31:00,962 --> 00:31:04,161
♪ I grew up in the country
461
00:31:04,261 --> 00:31:06,460
♪ Beside a chicken shack
462
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,559
♪ So I left for the city
463
00:31:08,659 --> 00:31:10,958
♪ And I didn't look back
464
00:31:11,058 --> 00:31:12,457
♪ Now, I'm livin' in hope
465
00:31:12,557 --> 00:31:13,757
♪ Livin' in hope
466
00:31:13,857 --> 00:31:15,156
♪ I'm livin' in hope
467
00:31:15,256 --> 00:31:16,156
♪ Livin' in hope
468
00:31:16,256 --> 00:31:17,755
♪ Yes, I'm livin' in hope
469
00:31:17,855 --> 00:31:19,854
♪ Livin' in hope
470
00:31:19,954 --> 00:31:25,352
At the height of Rutlemania in 1965,
their drummer Barry Wom, the noisy one
471
00:31:25,451 --> 00:31:29,750
Returned home to Liverpool,
to marry his childhood sweet-heart
472
00:31:29,850 --> 00:31:32,748
The church was packed with Rutle fans
473
00:31:32,848 --> 00:31:37,146
All of whom wanted to
get a close look at The Rutles
474
00:31:42,944 --> 00:31:48,541
Inside the dimly lit, crowded church
Barry got separated from his fiancé
475
00:31:48,641 --> 00:31:51,940
And ended up with a different bride
476
00:32:01,635 --> 00:32:06,833
In the confusion, Barry's bride-to-be,
twenty-three year old butcher's apprentice, Brenda Liola
477
00:32:06,933 --> 00:32:10,232
Was accidentally married to
a party of Scotsmen from Hull
478
00:32:10,332 --> 00:32:12,531
Inspiring Barry's haunting ballad
479
00:32:12,631 --> 00:32:16,729
"When you find the girl of your dreams in
the arms of some Scotsmen from Hull"
480
00:32:16,753 --> 00:32:21,451
Barry was heartbroken, but when he looked up and
saw who he'd married, he soon cheered up.
481
00:32:24,473 --> 00:32:29,671
Welcome back. And it's from Liverpool that we
go immediately to London
482
00:32:30,605 --> 00:32:33,204
Hello, London here
483
00:32:33,303 --> 00:32:39,501
And it's from London that we go to Switzerland
to The Rutles second movie "Ouch!"
484
00:32:39,601 --> 00:32:44,599
Filmed in colour, on location
very expensively, not in London
485
00:32:44,698 --> 00:32:45,798
♪ Ouch!
486
00:32:45,898 --> 00:32:47,197
♪ You're breakin' my heart
487
00:32:47,297 --> 00:32:48,397
♪ Ouch!
488
00:32:48,497 --> 00:32:49,696
♪ I'm fallin' apart
489
00:32:49,796 --> 00:32:50,896
♪ Ouch!
490
00:32:50,996 --> 00:32:53,595
♪ Ow, ow, Ouch!
491
00:32:54,694 --> 00:32:56,093
♪ When we first met
492
00:32:56,193 --> 00:32:59,592
♪ I must admit I fell
for you right from the start
493
00:32:59,692 --> 00:33:04,290
♪ I must admit I fell
for you right from the start
494
00:33:04,390 --> 00:33:05,689
♪ Now when we meet
495
00:33:05,789 --> 00:33:09,088
♪ All kinds of things
it seems upset the apple cart
496
00:33:09,288 --> 00:33:13,686
♪ All kinds of things
it seems upset the apple cart
497
00:33:13,786 --> 00:33:14,785
♪ Ouch!
498
00:33:14,885 --> 00:33:15,885
♪ Don't desert me
499
00:33:15,985 --> 00:33:17,084
♪ Ouch!
500
00:33:17,184 --> 00:33:18,484
♪ Please don't hurt me
501
00:33:18,583 --> 00:33:19,683
♪ Ouch!
502
00:33:19,783 --> 00:33:22,482
♪ Ow, ow, Ouch!
503
00:33:23,181 --> 00:33:24,581
♪ What is this thing
504
00:33:24,681 --> 00:33:28,279
♪ Called love why do they say
it makes the world go 'round?
505
00:33:28,479 --> 00:33:32,577
♪ Called love why do they say
it makes the world go 'round?
506
00:33:32,677 --> 00:33:34,077
♪ I can't explain
507
00:33:34,177 --> 00:33:37,775
♪ The way I feel for you,
my feet don't touch the ground
508
00:33:37,975 --> 00:33:42,273
♪ The way I feel for you,
my feet don't touch the ground
509
00:33:42,373 --> 00:33:43,472
♪ Ouch!
510
00:33:43,572 --> 00:33:44,672
♪ Don't desert me
511
00:33:44,772 --> 00:33:45,671
♪ Ouch!
512
00:33:45,771 --> 00:33:47,071
♪ Please don't hurt me
513
00:33:47,171 --> 00:33:48,270
♪ Ouch!
514
00:33:48,370 --> 00:33:51,069
♪ Ow, ow, Ouch!
515
00:33:52,069 --> 00:33:53,068
♪ When we first met
516
00:33:53,168 --> 00:33:57,166
♪ I must admit I fell
for you right from the start
517
00:33:57,266 --> 00:34:01,764
♪ I must admit I fell
for you right from the start
518
00:34:01,864 --> 00:34:03,164
♪ Now when we meet
519
00:34:03,264 --> 00:34:07,162
♪ All kinds of things
it seems upset the apple cart
520
00:34:07,362 --> 00:34:11,360
♪ All kinds of things
it seems upset the apple cart
521
00:34:11,460 --> 00:34:12,660
♪ Ouch!
522
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:13,759
♪ Don't desert me
523
00:34:13,859 --> 00:34:14,759
♪ Ouch!
524
00:34:14,859 --> 00:34:16,058
♪ Please don't hurt me
525
00:34:16,158 --> 00:34:17,357
♪ Ouch!
526
00:34:17,457 --> 00:34:20,056
♪ Ow, ow, Ouch!
527
00:34:20,956 --> 00:34:22,055
♪ Ouch!
528
00:34:22,155 --> 00:34:23,255
♪ Don't desert me
529
00:34:23,355 --> 00:34:24,354
♪ Ouch!
530
00:34:24,454 --> 00:34:25,554
♪ Please don't hurt me
531
00:34:25,654 --> 00:34:26,853
♪ Ouch!
532
00:34:26,953 --> 00:34:29,552
♪ Ow, ow, Ouch!
533
00:34:33,911 --> 00:34:39,409
Che Stadium. Named after the Cuban guerrilla
leader, Che Stadium
534
00:34:39,509 --> 00:34:45,906
And it was here, in 1965, that The Rutles came,
well, not here in the car park obviously
535
00:34:46,006 --> 00:34:53,503
But back there, in the stadium
that The Rutles came in 1965 to a
capacity house, a sell-out
536
00:34:53,702 --> 00:34:57,301
The thing I remember about it is them
running out into the middle of this field
537
00:34:57,401 --> 00:35:01,199
And you couldn't see them,
there they were, like, you know,
just miles away
538
00:35:01,299 --> 00:35:04,997
There... is it really The Rutles?
It might be somebody else
539
00:35:08,596 --> 00:35:13,094
♪ There was no one in my life till I met you
540
00:35:14,293 --> 00:35:18,691
♪ You brought me love and taught me how to smile
541
00:35:18,791 --> 00:35:22,890
♪ You picked me up when I was feeling blue
542
00:35:23,789 --> 00:35:27,587
♪ From now on my future is worthwhile
543
00:35:27,887 --> 00:35:30,186
♪ It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
544
00:35:30,386 --> 00:35:32,685
♪ It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
545
00:35:32,885 --> 00:35:35,784
♪ It's lookin' good!
546
00:35:37,983 --> 00:35:42,081
♪ Now that you have given me reason to live
547
00:35:43,181 --> 00:35:46,879
♪ I will stay forever by your side
548
00:35:48,078 --> 00:35:51,977
♪ And give you all the lovin' I can give
549
00:35:53,376 --> 00:35:56,275
♪ Just say the word, and be my bride
550
00:35:57,074 --> 00:35:59,273
♪ It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
551
00:35:59,473 --> 00:36:01,572
♪ It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
552
00:36:01,772 --> 00:36:04,771
♪ It's lookin' good!
553
00:36:07,570 --> 00:36:11,868
♪ I'm not throwing caution to the winds, oh no
554
00:36:12,168 --> 00:36:15,766
♪ Love is not an easy game to play
555
00:36:17,066 --> 00:36:21,464
♪ Though I may not be a man of words, yeah, yeah
556
00:36:21,564 --> 00:36:25,562
♪ There is one thing I feel obliged to say
557
00:36:25,862 --> 00:36:28,061
♪ It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
558
00:36:28,261 --> 00:36:30,360
♪ It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good
559
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,458
♪ It's lookin' good
560
00:36:54,149 --> 00:36:55,649
You couldn't hear anything
561
00:36:55,748 --> 00:36:57,748
How long did they play?
562
00:36:57,848 --> 00:37:02,146
About twenty minutes and that was it,
off, helicopter
563
00:37:02,346 --> 00:37:06,644
Back to the Warwick Hotel,
two birds each
564
00:37:07,043 --> 00:37:10,942
In 1966 The Rutles faced the
biggest threat to their careers
565
00:37:11,042 --> 00:37:13,041
Nasty, in a widely quoted interview
566
00:37:13,141 --> 00:37:16,339
Apparently had claimed that
The Rutles were bigger than God
567
00:37:16,439 --> 00:37:20,937
And had gone on to say that God
had never had a hit record
568
00:37:24,636 --> 00:37:27,734
The story spread like
wildfire in America
569
00:37:27,834 --> 00:37:29,334
Many fans burnt their albums
570
00:37:29,434 --> 00:37:32,332
Many more burnt their fingers
attempting to burn their albums
571
00:37:32,432 --> 00:37:37,630
Album sales sky-rocketed, people
were buying them, just to burn them
572
00:37:37,730 --> 00:37:40,928
But in fact it was all a ghastly mistake
573
00:37:41,028 --> 00:37:43,627
Nasty talking to a
slightly deaf journalist
574
00:37:43,727 --> 00:37:47,626
Had claimed only that The Rutles
were bigger than Rod
575
00:37:47,725 --> 00:37:51,624
Rod Steward would not be big
for another eight years
576
00:37:51,724 --> 00:37:55,122
That's all I said you know,
now all this has to happen
577
00:37:55,222 --> 00:37:58,421
- What do you think it proves?
- I think it proves you're all daft!
578
00:37:58,521 --> 00:38:00,720
I suppose I'll get into trouble
for saying that now
579
00:38:00,820 --> 00:38:05,018
Nasty apologised to God, Rod and the press
and the tour went ahead as planned
580
00:38:05,118 --> 00:38:06,717
But it would be The Rutles last
581
00:38:06,817 --> 00:38:11,415
Playing all the places where we're supposed to play,
and we hope we can, you know, bring a bit of
582
00:38:12,415 --> 00:38:15,913
You know, je ne sais quoi to America
583
00:38:16,013 --> 00:38:21,111
At the end of it they met Bob Dylan
in the idyllic San Francisco of the mid-sixties
584
00:38:21,211 --> 00:38:26,408
And he introduced them to a strange substance,
which was to have an enormous affect on them
585
00:38:26,508 --> 00:38:28,907
Tea
586
00:38:39,203 --> 00:38:41,702
Despite warnings that it would
lead to stronger things
587
00:38:41,802 --> 00:38:44,700
The Rutles enjoyed the
pleasant effects of tea
588
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:50,598
And it influenced enormously
their greatest work: Sgt. Rutters
589
00:38:53,496 --> 00:38:58,394
Of course the main thing that comes to my mind
with the Sgt. Rutter album is
590
00:38:58,494 --> 00:39:02,193
Getting stoned and listening to it
with the earphones you know
591
00:39:02,293 --> 00:39:05,591
Particularly the, you know, the chord
that lasted forever you know
592
00:39:05,691 --> 00:39:09,389
The release of this album,
a millstone in pop music history
593
00:39:09,489 --> 00:39:14,387
Contributed greatly to an idyllic summer of
bells, flowers and tea drinking
594
00:39:14,487 --> 00:39:19,185
It's music led thousands to
experiment with tea
595
00:39:22,184 --> 00:39:27,182
Eventually even the press found out
and offered Dirk the chance to deny it
596
00:39:27,281 --> 00:39:31,380
It's not up to me, if you come
and ask me I'm going to tell you the truth
597
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,478
Because it is the truth,
I have had tea
598
00:39:34,578 --> 00:39:38,876
Lots of tea... Indian tea...
...and biscuits
599
00:39:40,076 --> 00:39:44,674
Dirk's admission created a scandal,
the press grabbed hold of the
wrong end of the stick
600
00:39:44,774 --> 00:39:47,972
And started to beat about the bush with it
601
00:39:51,771 --> 00:39:55,869
Many pop-stars were arrested
for using and possessing tea
602
00:39:55,969 --> 00:39:59,667
Nasty himself was busted by
Detective Inspector Brian Plant
603
00:39:59,767 --> 00:40:02,466
Who brought his own,
to be on the safe side
604
00:40:02,490 --> 00:40:05,589
There was an immediate outcry against this
Police persecution
605
00:40:05,613 --> 00:40:10,910
and the London Times carried a full page
petition calling for the legalization of tea
606
00:40:20,916 --> 00:40:23,415
The Rutles meanwhile
appeared live on TV
607
00:40:23,515 --> 00:40:28,912
Before a worldwide audience of two hundred million
with a song that expressed the feeling of the age
608
00:40:29,012 --> 00:40:31,311
Tea was on every-one's lips
609
00:40:31,411 --> 00:40:34,410
♪...In your own time
♪ Love Life
610
00:40:34,510 --> 00:40:35,709
♪ To live is to live...
611
00:40:40,507 --> 00:40:43,806
♪ Where there's a will, there's a way
612
00:40:44,006 --> 00:40:47,204
♪ Love is the meaning of life
613
00:40:47,404 --> 00:40:50,803
♪ Life is the meaning of love
614
00:40:51,102 --> 00:40:53,201
♪ Love Life
615
00:40:53,401 --> 00:40:55,700
♪ Love Life
616
00:40:55,900 --> 00:40:57,899
♪ Love Life
617
00:40:58,199 --> 00:41:00,698
♪ Love Life
618
00:41:12,793 --> 00:41:15,791
♪ Where there's a will, there's a way
619
00:41:15,991 --> 00:41:19,390
♪ Love is the meaning of life
620
00:41:19,890 --> 00:41:22,988
♪ Life is the meaning of love
621
00:41:23,088 --> 00:41:25,287
♪ Love Life
622
00:41:25,487 --> 00:41:27,686
♪ Love Life
623
00:41:27,786 --> 00:41:30,185
♪ Love Life
624
00:41:30,385 --> 00:41:31,684
♪ Love Life
625
00:41:31,884 --> 00:41:32,484
♪ Everybody!
626
00:41:32,684 --> 00:41:34,883
♪ Love Life
627
00:41:34,983 --> 00:41:36,282
♪ Love Life
628
00:41:36,482 --> 00:41:37,382
♪ Altogether now!
629
00:41:37,582 --> 00:41:39,381
♪ Love Life
630
00:41:39,581 --> 00:41:41,880
♪ Love Life
631
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,079
♪ Love is the meaning of life
632
00:41:44,179 --> 00:41:46,378
♪ Life is the meaning of love
633
00:41:46,578 --> 00:41:48,577
♪ Love is the meaning of life
634
00:41:48,677 --> 00:41:50,976
♪ Life is the meaning of love
635
00:41:51,176 --> 00:41:53,375
♪ Love is the meaning of life
636
00:41:53,575 --> 00:41:55,774
♪ Life is the meaning of love
637
00:41:55,974 --> 00:41:58,073
♪ Love is the meaning of life
638
00:41:58,273 --> 00:42:00,272
♪ Life is the meaning of love
639
00:42:00,472 --> 00:42:02,371
♪ Love is the meaning of life
640
00:42:02,471 --> 00:42:05,769
♪ Hold my hand, yeah, yeah!
641
00:42:11,867 --> 00:42:17,664
A new form there, a slightly different form
there of choral music, with a slight difference
642
00:42:17,764 --> 00:42:21,362
We'll be back with Prince Charles
in just a moment
643
00:42:21,462 --> 00:42:25,061
"Love Life" is in many ways,
the high watermark of their careers
644
00:42:25,085 --> 00:42:31,382
From here the sands of time end, leaving them
high and dry on the beach of time
645
00:42:31,406 --> 00:42:36,104
as the tide of history rode relentlessly over them
646
00:42:38,658 --> 00:42:42,556
For a start Leggy Mountbatten
was rapidly becoming a worry
647
00:42:42,656 --> 00:42:44,655
Always emotionally involved
with them
648
00:42:44,755 --> 00:42:47,554
He had far less to do
once they ceased touring
649
00:42:47,654 --> 00:42:49,953
Of course he had other artistes
650
00:42:50,053 --> 00:42:51,652
The McKismo Brothers
651
00:42:51,752 --> 00:42:53,851
Arthur Hodson and the Kneecaps
652
00:42:53,951 --> 00:42:57,949
As well as the French
Beach Boys: Les Garcons De La Plage
653
00:42:58,249 --> 00:43:03,047
But his decision to put money
into bull-fighters as a tax dodge
654
00:43:03,147 --> 00:43:05,946
Plus his unusual personal life
655
00:43:06,046 --> 00:43:10,744
In California he'd been arrested for giving
the kiss of life to a rubber raft
656
00:43:10,844 --> 00:43:14,242
Gave increasing grounds for concern
657
00:43:14,342 --> 00:43:19,540
I asked Mick Jagger if he was aware
of these tendencies of Leggy's
658
00:43:20,140 --> 00:43:26,137
Oh yeah... Leggy yeah you're kidding,
Leggy got around a bit you know
659
00:43:26,737 --> 00:43:31,634
And that was alright, you know,
until he started going off with the bull-fighters
660
00:43:31,635 --> 00:43:33,934
I think, that...
661
00:43:34,033 --> 00:43:37,332
That era, and then I think they got
a bit disenchanted with him
662
00:43:37,432 --> 00:43:41,430
And he didn't know where to go, you know,
you know, in his life I think
663
00:43:41,530 --> 00:43:44,729
And they wanted to
control more of themselves, you know
664
00:43:44,829 --> 00:43:50,426
Stig meanwhile had fallen under the influence of
Arthur Sultan, the 'Surrey Mystic'
665
00:43:50,626 --> 00:43:54,924
And Sultan had introduced Stig
to his Ouija board work
666
00:43:56,024 --> 00:43:59,622
Arthur Sultan now invited The Rutles
on a getaway from it all
667
00:43:59,722 --> 00:44:02,721
Table-tapping weekend
near Bognor.
668
00:44:02,821 --> 00:44:06,519
As usual the press followed
669
00:44:10,117 --> 00:44:15,115
The Bognor thing was really funny,
the "Bognor Express" they called it in the newspapers
670
00:44:15,215 --> 00:44:18,614
Some-one was very late,
one of the girls, they were always late
671
00:44:18,714 --> 00:44:22,912
One of them, I can't remember who it was,
maybe Nasty
672
00:44:23,012 --> 00:44:28,609
Thought we were trying to get on the Rutles bandwagon, you know,
The Rutles mystical bandwagon, which wasn't
true at all
673
00:44:28,709 --> 00:44:34,107
We were just as eager to find out what was going on
in this board-tapping thing at Bognor as anybody
674
00:44:41,703 --> 00:44:44,702
♪ In this day and age
675
00:44:45,402 --> 00:44:48,400
♪ Love is all the rage
676
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:56,097
♪ Life goes on,
it only goes to show
677
00:44:57,097 --> 00:45:00,195
♪ It's not my cup of tea
678
00:45:00,495 --> 00:45:04,094
♪ It's all the same to me
679
00:45:04,893 --> 00:45:09,491
♪ For we are here today
and gone tomorrow...
680
00:45:09,591 --> 00:45:12,690
But while The Rutles sat
at the foot of the Surrey mystic
681
00:45:12,790 --> 00:45:15,089
Fate dealt them an appalling blow
682
00:45:15,189 --> 00:45:18,487
It was here that they learnt
the shocking news of their manager
683
00:45:18,587 --> 00:45:21,886
Leggy Mountbatten, tired and
despondent over the weekend
684
00:45:21,986 --> 00:45:26,983
And unable to raise any friends,
went home and tragically...
685
00:45:27,083 --> 00:45:29,882
Accepted a teaching post
in Australia
686
00:45:30,382 --> 00:45:35,280
It was a kind of funny weekend that,
and then of course at the end of it
687
00:45:35,879 --> 00:45:42,277
We found out that Leggy had gone off to Australia,
which kind of put the mockers on the whole thing really
688
00:45:42,377 --> 00:45:46,975
It was a bombshell for The Rutles.
They were shocked and stunned
689
00:45:47,075 --> 00:45:51,073
- Well we're shocked
- Yes shocked
690
00:45:51,173 --> 00:45:53,372
Shocked
691
00:45:53,472 --> 00:45:54,671
And stunned
692
00:45:54,771 --> 00:45:57,870
Yes stunned
693
00:45:57,970 --> 00:45:59,869
Very stunned
694
00:45:59,969 --> 00:46:03,867
Did Arthur Sultan have any words
of encouragement for you?
695
00:46:03,967 --> 00:46:06,466
- No
- Well yes
696
00:46:06,566 --> 00:46:09,365
Well, yes and no
697
00:46:09,964 --> 00:46:13,863
He said it took allsorts to make a world
698
00:46:13,963 --> 00:46:18,860
And that we shouldn't worry unduly
about were he'd gone
699
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:24,658
You know he said... we shouldn't become covered
with grief at thoughts of Australia
700
00:46:26,857 --> 00:46:28,056
Because...
701
00:46:28,156 --> 00:46:33,654
He did say we could still keep in touch with him
by tapping the table
702
00:46:34,454 --> 00:46:37,652
- And postcards
- Yes
703
00:46:40,451 --> 00:46:41,850
Very stunned
704
00:46:43,873 --> 00:46:44,973
Very stunned
705
00:46:53,260 --> 00:46:57,259
It's significant that their first major flop
'Tragical History Tour'
706
00:46:57,358 --> 00:47:02,256
Immediately followed the loss of Leggy.
It was not the strongest idea for a Rutles film
707
00:47:02,356 --> 00:47:04,455
Four Oxford history professors
708
00:47:04,555 --> 00:47:07,654
On a hitch-hiking tour of tea-shops
in the Rutland area
709
00:47:07,754 --> 00:47:11,552
And it was slammed
mercilously by the press
710
00:47:11,652 --> 00:47:14,251
♪...Talk about a month of Sundays
711
00:47:14,351 --> 00:47:18,549
♪ Toffee-nosed wet weekend as far as I can see
712
00:47:19,649 --> 00:47:22,547
♪ Hey, diddle diddle
713
00:47:22,647 --> 00:47:25,546
♪ The cat and the fiddle
714
00:47:25,646 --> 00:47:27,645
♪ Piggy in the middle
715
00:47:27,745 --> 00:47:29,444
♪ Do a poo-poo
716
00:47:29,544 --> 00:47:32,143
♪ Bible punching heavyweight
717
00:47:32,243 --> 00:47:35,642
♪ Evangelistic boxing kangaroo
718
00:47:38,140 --> 00:47:41,039
♪ Orang-utan and anaconda
719
00:47:41,139 --> 00:47:45,237
♪ Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, even Pluto, too
720
00:47:46,237 --> 00:47:49,236
♪ Hey, diddle diddle
721
00:47:49,535 --> 00:47:52,434
♪ The cat and the fiddle
722
00:47:52,534 --> 00:47:54,633
♪ Piggy in the middle
723
00:47:54,733 --> 00:47:56,732
♪ Do a poo-poo
724
00:47:56,832 --> 00:48:00,630
♪ tekraaam ot tnew eiggip elttil siht
725
00:48:08,527 --> 00:48:19,122
♪ One man's civilization
is another man's jungle, yeah
726
00:48:20,322 --> 00:48:23,820
♪ They say revolution's in the air
727
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,019
♪ I'm dancing in my underwear
728
00:48:26,119 --> 00:48:29,018
♪ 'Cause I don't care
729
00:48:29,218 --> 00:48:32,316
♪ Hey diddle diddle
730
00:48:32,416 --> 00:48:35,415
♪ The cat and the fiddle
731
00:48:35,515 --> 00:48:37,514
♪ Piggy in the middle
732
00:48:37,614 --> 00:48:40,613
♪ Do a poo-poo Do a poo-poo
733
00:49:17,596 --> 00:49:19,995
♪ This little piggy went to market
734
00:49:20,195 --> 00:49:22,994
♪ And this little piggy stayed home
735
00:49:23,094 --> 00:49:26,393
♪ This little piggy had roast beef
736
00:49:26,592 --> 00:49:29,591
♪ and this little piggy had none
737
00:49:29,791 --> 00:49:33,889
♪ This little piggy went Wooo..oooo!
738
00:49:34,289 --> 00:49:37,188
♪ All the way home
739
00:49:41,886 --> 00:49:44,385
♪ This little piggy went to market...
740
00:49:47,283 --> 00:49:51,581
I'm sitting in a rented limousine
in New York. And it was here...
741
00:49:51,681 --> 00:49:54,380
Well not in the limousine obviously,
but in New York
742
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:59,578
The Rutles came in 1968,
to announce the formation of Rutle Corp
743
00:50:00,977 --> 00:50:05,375
We're here in New York
to announce the formation of Rutle Corp
744
00:50:05,475 --> 00:50:09,374
Nasty and I have come over
on behalf of the other Rutles
745
00:50:09,474 --> 00:50:11,573
Yes they couldn't come
746
00:50:11,673 --> 00:50:17,970
We're setting up Rutle Corp as a kind
of enterprise that people can come to us
747
00:50:18,070 --> 00:50:20,769
And we'll help them,
we'll give them money
748
00:50:20,868 --> 00:50:23,767
You know, if they want money,
they just come to us
749
00:50:23,867 --> 00:50:28,165
Yes, instead of going to a bank,
we want to help people to help themselves
750
00:50:28,265 --> 00:50:32,563
Rutle Corp did just that,
people helped themselves for years
751
00:50:32,663 --> 00:50:36,961
At one stage they were losing money faster
than the British Government
752
00:50:37,061 --> 00:50:40,460
There are continued allegations
that Rutle Corp is going bankrupt
753
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:44,658
Eric Manchester, the Rutles press agent:
Are these allegations true?
754
00:50:44,758 --> 00:50:49,356
No, no, they're conjecture you know,
it's only a rumour
755
00:50:49,656 --> 00:50:54,254
I think you'll find the way you get success,
you always find this kind of rumour. No...
756
00:50:54,354 --> 00:50:57,352
So the stories of the thefts,
they're not true also?
757
00:50:57,552 --> 00:51:01,151
No, they're greatly exaggerated,
greatly exaggerated
758
00:51:01,251 --> 00:51:03,150
It's bad, you know,
things are going
759
00:51:03,250 --> 00:51:06,948
But nothing like the rate,
that people indicate
760
00:51:07,048 --> 00:51:10,547
The trouble is that people feel
because these boys are The Rutles
761
00:51:10,646 --> 00:51:14,145
People can come in and help themselves
to whatever they want. And this is just not on
762
00:51:14,245 --> 00:51:18,243
And we're putting a stop to this,
and we're are doing, you know,
it's almost dried up
763
00:51:18,343 --> 00:51:22,541
Things have gone, I wont deny it,
television sets
764
00:51:22,641 --> 00:51:25,340
The odd car belonging to the company
765
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:26,839
Has disappeared
766
00:51:26,939 --> 00:51:30,238
But...
it's not extreme you know
767
00:51:30,338 --> 00:51:34,336
I did come in once and found that
my office had been nicked
768
00:51:34,436 --> 00:51:37,934
But it had been nicked by Ron Decline,
who we'd called in
769
00:51:38,034 --> 00:51:41,133
To stop this sort of flow of goods from
the building, so that was alright
770
00:51:41,233 --> 00:51:46,830
So once you see this stop do you feel
that Rutle Corp will continue into the future?
771
00:51:46,930 --> 00:51:53,028
Absolutely. I feel that once we've put a stop
to this sort of bit of petty pilfering
772
00:51:53,128 --> 00:51:57,526
Rutle Corp will last for a
very, very, very...
773
00:51:59,325 --> 00:52:03,923
For awhile, three chapters of the Redditch Hell's Angels
lived in the basement of Rutle Corp
774
00:52:04,023 --> 00:52:06,822
Before Stig had the nerve
to ask them to leave
775
00:52:06,922 --> 00:52:10,020
- Who hurt Stig?
- One of the girls
776
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,019
- Who?
- Big Valerie here
777
00:52:13,119 --> 00:52:16,317
We're very upset,
but there's not much we can do about it
778
00:52:16,417 --> 00:52:18,417
- Why not?
- Well... she'll thump me
779
00:52:19,340 --> 00:52:21,639
So... Stig injured by big Valerie
780
00:52:23,154 --> 00:52:26,053
The Rutles next opened a
clothes boutique in London
781
00:52:26,153 --> 00:52:29,052
Which lost nearly a million dollars
in only three weeks
782
00:52:29,152 --> 00:52:30,851
Before Nasty blew it up
783
00:52:49,983 --> 00:52:53,081
♪ I have always thought
784
00:52:53,281 --> 00:52:56,480
♪ in the back of my mind
785
00:52:56,580 --> 00:52:59,478
♪ cheese and onions
786
00:53:03,577 --> 00:53:06,675
♪ I have always thought
787
00:53:06,975 --> 00:53:10,274
♪ that the world was unkind
788
00:53:10,374 --> 00:53:13,172
♪ cheese and onions
789
00:53:17,870 --> 00:53:21,169
♪ Do I have to spell it out?
790
00:53:24,467 --> 00:53:30,665
♪ C-H-E-E-S-E A-N-D O-N-I-O-N-S
791
00:53:30,765 --> 00:53:33,163
♪ Oh, no.
792
00:53:37,262 --> 00:53:40,060
♪ Man and machine
793
00:53:40,460 --> 00:53:43,459
♪ Keep yourself clean
794
00:53:43,759 --> 00:53:46,558
♪ Or be a has-been
795
00:53:47,057 --> 00:53:50,056
♪ Like a dinosaur...
796
00:53:50,756 --> 00:53:53,455
♪ Man or device
797
00:53:53,654 --> 00:53:56,653
♪ For everything nice
798
00:53:57,253 --> 00:54:00,551
♪ You'd better think twice
799
00:54:01,051 --> 00:54:04,150
♪ At least once more...
800
00:54:04,350 --> 00:54:07,148
♪ Man and machine
801
00:54:07,448 --> 00:54:10,447
♪ Keep yourself clean
802
00:54:10,947 --> 00:54:13,746
♪ Or be a has-been
803
00:54:14,445 --> 00:54:17,444
♪ Like a dinosaur...
804
00:54:18,044 --> 00:54:20,742
♪ Man or device
805
00:54:21,142 --> 00:54:24,141
♪ For everything nice
806
00:54:24,641 --> 00:54:27,839
♪ You'd better think twice
807
00:54:28,539 --> 00:54:31,538
♪ At least once more!
808
00:54:31,937 --> 00:54:34,736
♪ Man and machine
809
00:54:35,036 --> 00:54:38,035
♪ Keep yourself clean
810
00:54:38,635 --> 00:54:41,433
♪ Or be a has-been
811
00:54:42,033 --> 00:54:44,932
♪ Like a dinosaur!
812
00:54:45,831 --> 00:54:48,530
♪ Man or device
813
00:54:49,030 --> 00:54:52,029
♪ For everything nice
814
00:54:52,628 --> 00:54:53,828
♪ You'd better think twice...
815
00:54:53,928 --> 00:54:57,026
Hey there, who's your friend?
Get his teeth cleaned
816
00:54:57,126 --> 00:55:00,725
- Oh hello Nasty
- Hello Dirk
817
00:55:01,225 --> 00:55:05,423
- Oh that's torn it
- What are you doing Stig?
818
00:55:05,823 --> 00:55:10,420
- Just getting out of here
- Well I'm gonna get out of here too
819
00:55:17,217 --> 00:55:20,616
Personal problems now began to split
The Rutles into smithereens
820
00:55:21,815 --> 00:55:26,114
They would sing together, but they wouldn't talk.
Pretty soon they wouldn't even sing
821
00:55:26,613 --> 00:55:30,911
By March 1969 things had got so bad within the group
822
00:55:31,012 --> 00:55:33,409
that both Dirk and Nasty got married
823
00:55:33,933 --> 00:55:37,132
not to each other, of course... to women
824
00:55:39,353 --> 00:55:41,352
Dirk had become enamoured with Martini
825
00:55:41,452 --> 00:55:45,350
A French actress who spoke no English
and precious little French
826
00:55:45,450 --> 00:55:48,848
When they married in London
the service was conducted in Spanish
827
00:55:48,948 --> 00:55:50,848
Italian and Chinese,
just to be on the safe side
828
00:55:51,743 --> 00:55:54,842
I love you...
829
00:55:57,061 --> 00:55:59,860
It's you I love...
830
00:56:00,959 --> 00:56:04,657
Today is our wedding day...
831
00:56:04,757 --> 00:56:07,956
For you always I will wai...
832
00:56:09,555 --> 00:56:11,355
G, B, B, E...
833
00:56:11,454 --> 00:56:12,754
F...
834
00:56:12,854 --> 00:56:15,353
- D
- D... D...
835
00:56:25,048 --> 00:56:28,047
That's nice...
836
00:56:38,043 --> 00:56:41,141
♪ Time goes by, as we all know
837
00:56:41,241 --> 00:56:43,640
♪ Naturally
838
00:56:44,340 --> 00:56:47,439
♪ People come and people go
839
00:56:47,539 --> 00:56:49,738
♪ Naturally
840
00:56:49,838 --> 00:56:52,636
♪ Let's be natural
841
00:56:53,236 --> 00:56:56,235
♪ Ever since the world began
842
00:56:56,335 --> 00:56:59,033
♪ Let's be natural
843
00:56:59,333 --> 00:57:02,332
♪ Every woman, every man
844
00:57:02,432 --> 00:57:05,231
♪ Let's be natural
845
00:57:05,830 --> 00:57:08,529
♪ Has followed nature's plan
846
00:57:08,629 --> 00:57:11,428
♪ Let's be natural
847
00:57:18,025 --> 00:57:20,824
♪ Oh, yeah
848
00:57:21,623 --> 00:57:24,822
Nasty meanwhile visited
an exhibition of broken art
849
00:57:24,922 --> 00:57:27,421
At the Pretentious Gallery, Soho
850
00:57:27,521 --> 00:57:32,519
The art exhibits had all been dropped
out of tall buildings and then put on display
851
00:57:32,619 --> 00:57:36,617
Amongst the little piles of rubble,
Nasty found the artist herself
852
00:57:36,717 --> 00:57:41,615
Chastity, a simple German girl,
whose father had invented WW2
853
00:57:42,738 --> 00:57:45,437
Chastity fascinated him
with her destructo art
854
00:57:46,161 --> 00:57:48,759
They talked all through the night
as she outlined her plans
855
00:57:48,783 --> 00:57:50,783
to drop artists out of planes
856
00:57:51,889 --> 00:57:53,788
Nasty adored her
857
00:57:53,888 --> 00:57:58,486
They announced their engagement, next day at a
press conference held in his shower
858
00:57:58,586 --> 00:57:59,986
What are you doing this for?
859
00:58:00,085 --> 00:58:04,084
We're doing this for peace,
and basically to show that the world is...
860
00:58:04,184 --> 00:58:08,082
You know, going astray, in it's thinking
861
00:58:08,382 --> 00:58:11,980
- What are you doing?
- We're getting wet in a shower
862
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:16,278
Because basically we talked it over,
Chastity and myself
863
00:58:16,378 --> 00:58:18,377
And we came to the conclusion
864
00:58:18,477 --> 00:58:23,675
That civilisation is nothing more
than an effective sewage system
865
00:58:23,875 --> 00:58:27,973
And so by the use of plumbing
we hope to demonstrate this to the world
866
00:58:28,697 --> 00:58:31,795
Nasty and Chastity now had plunged
themselves into the art world
867
00:58:31,819 --> 00:58:35,418
Together they made a film called
A Thousand Feet Of Film
868
00:58:36,341 --> 00:58:44,738
♪ You need feet, to stand up straight with,
869
00:58:44,762 --> 00:58:53,258
♪ You need feet, to kick your friends,
870
00:58:53,282 --> 00:59:02,178
♪ You need feet, to keep your socks on,
871
00:59:02,202 --> 00:59:10,498
♪ And stop your legs from, fraying at the ends.
872
00:59:11,222 --> 00:59:19,418
♪ You need feet, to walk to Scunthorpe,
873
00:59:19,442 --> 00:59:27,939
♪ Or to dance, the hoochy-coo,
874
00:59:27,963 --> 00:59:36,759
♪ Yes the whole world needs
feet for something
875
00:59:36,783 --> 00:59:43,480
♪ And I need feet, to run away from you.
876
00:59:45,002 --> 00:59:48,001
Stig meanwhile,
had hidden in the background
so much
877
00:59:48,101 --> 00:59:51,499
That in 1969 a rumour went
around that he was dead
878
00:59:51,523 --> 00:59:53,422
He was supposed to been killed
879
00:59:53,446 --> 00:59:55,445
in a flashfire at at water bed shop
880
00:59:55,469 --> 01:00:00,467
and replaced by a plastic and wax replica
from Madame Tussauds
881
01:00:01,195 --> 01:00:05,493
Several so called 'facts'
helped the emergence of this rumour
882
01:00:05,593 --> 01:00:09,691
One: he... he never said
anything publicly
883
01:00:09,891 --> 01:00:14,689
Even as the 'quiet one',
he'd not said a word since 1966
884
01:00:15,289 --> 01:00:20,986
Two: on the cover of their latest album,
'Shabby Road' he's wearing no trousers
885
01:00:21,086 --> 01:00:24,385
An Italian way of
indicating death
886
01:00:24,485 --> 01:00:30,382
Three: Nasty supposedly sings
"I buried Stig" on "I Am The Waitress"
887
01:00:30,482 --> 01:00:33,481
In fact he sings
"E burres stigano"
888
01:00:33,581 --> 01:00:37,579
Which is very bad Spanish for
"Have you a water buffalo?"
889
01:00:37,679 --> 01:00:40,578
Four: on the cover of the Sgt. Rutter album
890
01:00:40,677 --> 01:00:46,675
Stig is leaning in the exact position of a dying Yeti
from the 'Rutland Book of the Dead'
891
01:00:47,774 --> 01:00:53,972
Five: if you sing the title of
"Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band" backwards
892
01:00:54,072 --> 01:00:58,969
it is supposed to sound very like
"Stig has been dead for ages honestly"
893
01:00:59,069 --> 01:01:04,967
In fact it sounds uncannily like
"dnab bulc ylno srettur tnaegres"
894
01:01:05,067 --> 01:01:07,166
Palatable nonsense
895
01:01:07,266 --> 01:01:12,663
Stig was of course, far from dead,
although not in fact, far from Esher
896
01:01:12,963 --> 01:01:15,562
He'd fallen in bed
with Gertrude Strange
897
01:01:15,662 --> 01:01:19,160
A large breasted biologically
accommodating American girl
898
01:01:19,260 --> 01:01:22,159
Who's father had
invented the limpet mine
899
01:01:22,259 --> 01:01:25,358
When they met, it was
lust at first sight
900
01:01:25,458 --> 01:01:29,156
Barry meanwhile had also spent a
year in bed as a tax dodge
901
01:01:29,256 --> 01:01:32,654
Eric Manchester thinks that
he'd either received appalling financial advice
902
01:01:32,754 --> 01:01:36,853
or that he was desperately trying to start
a "Barry is also dead" rumour
903
01:01:36,953 --> 01:01:41,151
When he finally got up
Rutle Corps was in a perilous financial plight
904
01:01:41,551 --> 01:01:44,949
Nasty had flown back in a hurry
from his honeymoon rally in Nuremburg
905
01:01:45,049 --> 01:01:48,348
To meet the most feared
promoter in the world
906
01:01:48,447 --> 01:01:51,146
Ron Decline
907
01:01:59,243 --> 01:02:02,341
Decline had a reputation
as a hard man
908
01:02:02,441 --> 01:02:04,940
His only weak spot
was dishonesty
909
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:09,638
Any-one was free to inspect his books,
but no-one could find his accounts
910
01:02:09,738 --> 01:02:13,636
He struck terror into
the hearts of his subordinates
911
01:02:14,936 --> 01:02:19,234
People would commit suicide
rather than meet him
912
01:02:19,734 --> 01:02:24,232
In business his left hand never knew
who his right hand was doing
913
01:02:24,332 --> 01:02:28,630
Nasty adored him,
he was a man after his own wallet
914
01:02:36,026 --> 01:02:40,524
Decline promised The Rutles that if they let him
take care of their royalties
915
01:02:40,624 --> 01:02:44,023
They would never have
to worry about money again
916
01:02:44,123 --> 01:02:48,221
Stig meanwhile was accepting the
financial advice of Billy Kodak
917
01:02:48,321 --> 01:02:52,519
Whilst Dirk had invited Arnold
Schwarzenweisengreenenbluenbraunenburger
918
01:02:52,619 --> 01:02:57,417
To handle his end of the name,
Barry was consulting the I Ching every
three and a half minutes
919
01:02:57,517 --> 01:02:59,516
There was a plethora of lawyers
920
01:02:59,616 --> 01:03:04,814
Suddenly every-one became
amazingly
921
01:03:04,914 --> 01:03:09,712
I remember, I'd get up in the morning, sue some-one,
check in the papers I hadn't been fired
922
01:03:09,812 --> 01:03:14,709
Go to the office, sue some-one,
pick up the morning's writ, sue the bank
923
01:03:14,809 --> 01:03:17,608
Go out to lunch,
sue the restaurant
924
01:03:17,708 --> 01:03:20,807
Get back in, collect the writs that
had been received that afternoon
925
01:03:20,907 --> 01:03:26,104
Read the papers, phone the papers,
sue the papers, and go home
926
01:03:26,204 --> 01:03:27,404
To the wife
927
01:03:27,504 --> 01:03:32,102
They're asking me "Where's the money, where's the money?"
I mean I don't know where the money is
928
01:03:32,202 --> 01:03:34,701
I've never been good with figures,
you know that
929
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:37,999
I don't know anything about math,
it was never my good subject
930
01:03:38,099 --> 01:03:42,097
I don't know where the money is, but if you
need money, I'll give you money
931
01:03:42,197 --> 01:03:45,796
But this...
this, really, surprises me...
932
01:03:45,896 --> 01:03:47,095
I'm really shocked
933
01:03:47,195 --> 01:03:51,693
Because I thought we had
something here a lot stronger than just business
934
01:03:51,793 --> 01:03:56,691
I mean you know, I love you
more than I love my own family, I do
935
01:03:56,791 --> 01:04:00,489
I wanna protect you, I wanna help you
936
01:04:00,589 --> 01:04:03,088
I wanna protect you
from the outside world
937
01:04:03,188 --> 01:04:07,186
Protect you... protect you from...
...people like me
938
01:04:07,210 --> 01:04:10,309
You know... and I think
I'm doing a good job
939
01:04:11,563 --> 01:04:15,362
At the final meeting a hundred and
thirty four legal people and accountants
940
01:04:15,462 --> 01:04:18,160
Filed into a small
eight by ten room
941
01:04:18,260 --> 01:04:20,759
Only eighty seven came out alive
942
01:04:20,859 --> 01:04:22,958
The black hole of Savile Row
943
01:04:23,058 --> 01:04:27,356
Had taken toll of some of the finest
merchant banking brains of a generation
944
01:04:27,456 --> 01:04:29,455
Luckily that's not very serious
945
01:04:29,555 --> 01:04:32,754
But The Rutles were obviously
self-destructing fast
946
01:04:32,854 --> 01:04:35,353
In the midst of all
this public bickering
947
01:04:35,453 --> 01:04:39,951
'Let It Rot' was released as a
film, a album and a lawsuit
948
01:04:40,151 --> 01:04:44,549
In 1970 Dirk sued
Stig, Nasty and Barry
949
01:04:44,649 --> 01:04:47,247
Barry sued Dirk, Nasty and Stig
950
01:04:47,347 --> 01:04:49,746
Nasty sued Barry, Dirk and Stig
951
01:04:49,846 --> 01:04:52,545
And Stig sued
himself accidentally
952
01:04:52,645 --> 01:04:54,944
It was the beginning of
a golden era for lawyers
953
01:04:55,044 --> 01:04:58,243
But for The Rutles, live
on a London rooftop
954
01:04:58,343 --> 01:05:01,441
It was the beginning of the end
955
01:05:09,937 --> 01:05:13,436
♪ Workin' up a fever in a one-horse town
956
01:05:13,536 --> 01:05:17,134
♪ Was a jockey by the name of Joe
957
01:05:17,734 --> 01:05:21,232
♪ He didn't have a lot of what you might call luck
958
01:05:21,332 --> 01:05:25,031
♪ But he had a lot of get up n' go
959
01:05:25,531 --> 01:05:28,929
♪ Get up n' go Get up n' go
960
01:05:29,529 --> 01:05:32,727
♪ Get up n' go back home
961
01:05:33,427 --> 01:05:36,826
♪ Get up n' go Get up n' go
962
01:05:37,425 --> 01:05:40,624
♪ Get up n' go back home
963
01:05:56,917 --> 01:06:00,115
♪ Tall in the saddle in a one-horse town
964
01:06:00,215 --> 01:06:04,113
♪ Joe, he knew someday he'd hit the road
965
01:06:04,313 --> 01:06:07,912
♪ He traded with a dealer for a pick-up truck
966
01:06:08,012 --> 01:06:11,710
♪ And went lookin' for a medium load
967
01:06:12,310 --> 01:06:15,708
♪ Get up n' go Get up n' go
968
01:06:16,208 --> 01:06:19,407
♪ Get up n' go back home
969
01:06:20,206 --> 01:06:23,505
♪ Get up n' go Get up n' go
970
01:06:24,105 --> 01:06:27,203
♪ Get up n' go back home
971
01:06:46,095 --> 01:06:49,493
♪ Ketchup n' go Ketchup n' go
972
01:06:49,993 --> 01:06:53,292
♪ Ketchup and go back home
973
01:06:53,891 --> 01:06:57,190
♪ Get up n' go Get up n' go
974
01:06:57,790 --> 01:07:00,888
♪ Get up n' go back home
975
01:07:01,388 --> 01:07:05,087
♪ Ketchup n' go Get up n' go
976
01:07:05,486 --> 01:07:08,685
♪ Get up n' go back home
977
01:07:09,385 --> 01:07:12,783
♪ Get up n' go Get up n' go
978
01:07:13,283 --> 01:07:15,682
♪ Get up n' go back home
979
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:31,299
Come along!
980
01:07:32,722 --> 01:07:34,122
Come! Get going!
981
01:07:44,548 --> 01:07:49,046
Like any of the other enormous
music... popular music phenomenom’s
982
01:07:49,146 --> 01:07:53,744
Sinatra, and Presley, and The Rutles,
and then, you know, some people say...
983
01:07:53,844 --> 01:07:57,542
Well you know "Its time, every ten years,
who will be the next Rutles?" you know
984
01:07:57,642 --> 01:08:00,841
I don't think there
will be a next Rutles
985
01:08:00,941 --> 01:08:05,739
Sixteen years after the fresh-faced
prefab four first burst into the public eye
986
01:08:05,839 --> 01:08:10,237
And eight years after they split up,
just where are The Rutles today?
987
01:08:10,337 --> 01:08:14,435
Dirk has formed with his wife Martini,
a punk rock group
988
01:08:14,535 --> 01:08:16,834
called The Punk Floyd
989
01:08:16,934 --> 01:08:19,932
He sings, and she doesn't
990
01:08:21,732 --> 01:08:27,529
Nasty has turned his back on the world
and sits with his thoughts and his memories
991
01:08:28,529 --> 01:08:34,126
Barry is a hairdresser in the Reading area,
with two fully equipped salons of his own
992
01:08:36,125 --> 01:08:40,823
While Stig works for
Air India as a air-hostess
993
01:08:41,923 --> 01:08:44,522
Fame is a fickle mistress
994
01:08:44,621 --> 01:08:48,420
Just how many people remember
The Rutles today?
995
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:52,418
We asked the public
just what is a Rutle?
996
01:08:52,518 --> 01:08:56,516
Excuse me madam, we're doing a documentary,
and I wonder if you'd answer a few questions
997
01:08:56,616 --> 01:08:58,415
Sorry I don't answer questions
998
01:08:58,515 --> 01:09:01,614
It wont take a second of your time, really,
we've just got the camera rolling right away here
999
01:09:01,714 --> 01:09:04,913
We're from England, and we're making a documentary
and we just want one question, please
1000
01:09:05,012 --> 01:09:08,111
- Alright
- Thank you very much, just stand right here OK?
1001
01:09:08,211 --> 01:09:11,809
- Who were The Rutles?
- I don't know
1002
01:09:11,909 --> 01:09:14,009
- Come on you must know
- No I'm sorry I don't know
1003
01:09:14,108 --> 01:09:15,708
- Yes you do know
- No well I don't know
1004
01:09:15,808 --> 01:09:17,507
- Who were The Rutles?
- I don't know
1005
01:09:17,607 --> 01:09:18,906
- You do know!
- No I don't know!
1006
01:09:19,006 --> 01:09:21,005
- You do know! The Rutles!
- I don't know who they are!
1007
01:09:21,205 --> 01:09:23,804
- Who were The Rutles? Please tell us
- I don't know who they are
1008
01:09:23,904 --> 01:09:25,403
- Who were The Rutles?
- I don't know!
1009
01:09:25,503 --> 01:09:26,403
- You do know!
- I don't!
1010
01:09:26,503 --> 01:09:28,602
- You do know! Who were The Rutles?!
- I don't know!
1011
01:09:28,702 --> 01:09:29,602
Who were The Rutles?!
1012
01:09:29,702 --> 01:09:33,600
The Rutles were a mop-top English pop quartet
of the sixties who set the foot of the world a-tapping
1013
01:09:33,700 --> 01:09:37,998
With their catchy melodies, their whacky
Liverpool humour and their zany off-the-wall antics
1014
01:09:38,098 --> 01:09:40,597
Epitomised in such movies as
"A Hard Days Rut" and "Ouch!"
1015
01:09:40,697 --> 01:09:43,396
Dirk and Nasty,
the acknowledged leaders of the group
1016
01:09:43,495 --> 01:09:47,894
Were perfectly complimented by
Stig, the quiet one, and Barry, the noisy one
1017
01:09:47,993 --> 01:09:51,392
To form a heart-warming, cheeky,
lovable, talented
1018
01:09:51,492 --> 01:09:53,991
Non-Jewish group
who would gladden the hearts of the world
1019
01:09:54,091 --> 01:09:56,490
- Thank you very much
- In 1962 they played The Cavern.
1020
01:09:56,590 --> 01:09:59,888
- After that they spent several months in Hamburg.
- Yes, thank you very much indeed
1021
01:09:59,988 --> 01:10:03,587
Then in 1962 they released
their first single "Twist and Rut"
1022
01:10:03,687 --> 01:10:05,586
Yes thank you very much, thank you
1023
01:10:05,686 --> 01:10:08,884
Will you shut up?!
1024
01:10:08,984 --> 01:10:12,583
From New York back to London
1025
01:10:12,683 --> 01:10:18,380
I'm standing on the crossing,
where the Rutles legend ended
1026
01:10:18,480 --> 01:10:24,377
Here it was that the prefab four
Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry
1027
01:10:24,877 --> 01:10:29,575
The Rutles, the singing phenomena,
who made the sixties what they are today
1028
01:10:29,675 --> 01:10:32,674
Here it was that indeed...!
1029
01:10:36,172 --> 01:10:40,970
Mick, why do you think
The Rutles broke up?
1030
01:10:41,070 --> 01:10:45,168
Why do I think they did?
Why did The Rutles break up?
1031
01:10:45,468 --> 01:10:51,565
Women. Just women,
getting in the way
1032
01:10:51,765 --> 01:10:54,064
Cherchez la femme, you know
1033
01:10:54,164 --> 01:10:57,163
Do you think they'll ever
get back together again?
1034
01:10:57,263 --> 01:10:59,162
I hope not
1035
01:10:59,262 --> 01:11:03,060
♪ People were proud
in Doubleback Alley
1036
01:11:03,260 --> 01:11:07,258
♪ Neighbours were loud,
but ever so pally
1037
01:11:07,358 --> 01:11:11,057
♪ People would shout,
joking about
1038
01:11:11,457 --> 01:11:15,355
♪ The smoke and the soot,
Mother would put
1039
01:11:15,455 --> 01:11:18,453
♪ The milk bottles out
1040
01:11:19,453 --> 01:11:23,451
♪ We had a good time
in Doubleback Alley
1041
01:11:23,551 --> 01:11:27,549
♪ With fences to climb,
and Father O'Malley
1042
01:11:27,649 --> 01:11:31,148
♪ To clip your ear,
and steer you clear
1043
01:11:31,248 --> 01:11:35,146
♪ Of the funny man
in the ice cream van
1044
01:11:35,246 --> 01:11:38,445
♪ Who talked so queer
1045
01:11:39,544 --> 01:11:47,041
♪ Doubleback Alley takes me back
and in my mind I see
1046
01:11:48,881 --> 01:11:55,878
♪ Happy, smiling faces if
I flog my memory
1047
01:11:56,678 --> 01:12:00,276
♪ People were proud
in Doubleback Alley
1048
01:12:00,576 --> 01:12:04,474
♪ Neighbors were loud but ever so pally
1049
01:12:04,574 --> 01:12:08,173
♪ People would shout, joking about
1050
01:12:08,672 --> 01:12:12,671
♪ The smoke and the soot, mother would put
1051
01:12:12,770 --> 01:12:15,369
♪ The milk bottles out
1052
01:12:17,112 --> 01:12:20,810
♪ We had a good time in Doubleback Alley
1053
01:12:20,834 --> 01:12:24,932
♪ With fences to climb and Father O'Malley
1054
01:12:24,956 --> 01:12:28,455
♪ To clip your ear and steer you clear
1055
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:32,477
♪ Of the funny man in the ice cream van
1056
01:12:32,501 --> 01:12:35,399
♪ Who talked so queer
1057
01:12:37,302 --> 01:12:43,799
♪ Doubleback Alley takes me back
and in my mind I see
1058
01:12:45,498 --> 01:12:48,896
♪ Happy, smiling faces if
I flog my memory
85008
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