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