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In 1977, I made a documentary
about The Rutles.
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The prefab four:
Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Bary.
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It made quite a splash.
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Today, I'm here in Hollywood to take
a look back at The Rutles...
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...to look back on those mop-topping,
foot-tapping, happy-go-lucky days...
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...of Rutle-mania and ask the question:
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"Where are we today?"
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Well, obviously,
I'm here in Hollywood...
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...and you're at home or at a friend's...
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...or at Veronica's
or wherever you're watching.
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But tonight, I want
to pose the question:
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"Did The Rutles change the world...
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...or did the world change
with The Rutles?
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Or did The Rutles not change
and the world did?
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Or perhaps we should
all go and change now."
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Tonight, I'm going to be asking
deep and probing questions.
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I shall be using modern
interviewing techniques...
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...to harass and badger people whose
only fault was they knew The Rutles.
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Indeed, I should be making
a documentary...
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...that will hopefully bring me
a bloody Emmy.
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Oh, for heaven's sake,
come back here.
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Yes, tonight...
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...we tell The Rutles' story. The full--
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-Jesus Christ!
-Oh, I'm sorry, lady.
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-You better--
-What--? Get the hell out of my house!
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-Seriously, we're doing a documentary.
-Who cares?
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-This man right here?
-Yes, this man right here. You creep.
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All right, ma'am. Calm down.
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All right, you, what's the story?
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Well, it all began in England
in the 1950s.
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In the 1950s in England,
popular music was very boring.
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In fact, everything in England
in the 1950s was very boring...
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...but popular music was particularly
boring. There were The MacGuffins.
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There was Nigel Pap.
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There was Jimmy Glimmer,
“The Wallasey Warbler."
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There was Vera Pickles,
“The Singing Granny."
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A large frog.
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The Rutles had been playing together
from quite an early age.
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When they grew up, some people
believed they changed the world.
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The Rutles changed the world.
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They completely changed the world.
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They changed the face of music
throughout the world.
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They changed the world.
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They changed the world.
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Absolutely, they changed the world.
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They never changed socks.
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- I think the best thing was their asses.
-Their bums, as you call them in England.
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These are four young men in their prime,
wearing very tight trousers.
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They created, I think,
the best music before ABBA.
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A lot of bands at the time...
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...were trying to sing like American boys,
like American boy groups.
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The Rutles, I felt, were trying to sing
like American girl groups.
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Essentially, they were black girls.
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Before I heard The Rutles,
I wanted to be a musician.
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-And afterwards?
- I didn't anymore.
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I shall be doing my new album,
probably, starting next week.
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I've been working very hard
on the material for it.
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I'm probably writing better than
I've ever written, but terribly excited.
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And who was your favourite Rutle?
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It's not about my album, this show?
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No, actually. This is about The Rutles.
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There wasn't any real personal rivalry
between The Rutles and the Stones.
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We were quite, you know-- Later on--
You know, met each other.
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But even at the beginning-- But people
like to make it like that, you know.
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We were the South's answer
to The Rutles.
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And when we go to Preston, we'd--
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People would boo us...
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...because we weren't from the North
like The Rutles were.
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Or the South was very proud of us...
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...because they had got something
to combat Rutles with.
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I mean, The Rutles took us
through the latter part of the '60s.
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They took a generation
by the hand and said:
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"Come, let's learn history.
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Let's take the Tragical History Tour.
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Let us walk down
Shabby Road together.
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Let us join up...
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...in Sergeant Rutters' band."
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And I don't know where we
would have been without them.
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Twenty-three years ago today--
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Well, not today, I mean...
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...more like 23 years and a bit. Actually,
it sort of depends when you watch this.
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But anyway,
about a quarter of a century ago...
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...I came here to this very spot...
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...in front of The Plaza in New York...
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...to make a documentary
about The Rutles.
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I'm actually standing
outside the actual hotel...
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...in which The Rutles
actually stayed in 1964.
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Actually, in this room here.
And it was actually inside...
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...this actual room 13 years
before the 23 years before.
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So that's, like, 36 years ago.
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About 30 years ago today they--
Well, not today.
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Then, when it was 30 years ago...
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...they stayed here in The Plaza...
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...when they first took
New York City by storm.
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Look out! They're coming!
They're coming! It's Rutles Day!
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It's Rutles Day. This is Bill Murray
the "K," coming to you out of the WC.
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Nobody wants to know anything
but when will The Rutles be here.
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They've just flown in, they've landed,
they're in.
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They're in. They're at Kennedy Airport.
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Wonderful to be here.
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-Did you have a good flight?
-Wonderful flight.
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Arms are a bit tired.
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Why do you wear tight trousers?
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-Keep the legs warm.
-To hide the knees.
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- I can't hear you.
-Where did you get your hair cut?
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Shut up a minute. Shut up.
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The Rutles invented rudeness.
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-Shut up!
-Well, I think the Americans...
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...took a moment to get used to the
Rutles, because America's very polite.
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And so these yobs coming off the plane
and being rude to everyone...
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...they took a moment
to get the point of that.
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They're here. What can I say?
I'm going to put on my wig. Hold it.
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It's Rutles wig time. That can mean
only one thing. We want a record.
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I can't even keep my wig on straight.
I've gotta twist and rock.
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-How about that, then?
-What's he saying?
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They said to me, "Bill Murray the 'K,'
we want to meet the American girls.
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We're coming over
to meet the American girls. "
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Wait. I got an idea.
I'm going to say a word.
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I'll say a word. I want you
to react to whatever it is.
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What do you say
when I say the word "Dirk"?
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I got to go now,
because I gotta sleep. Okay?
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I've been a big fan of Dirk's.
I always had a crush on him.
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How about Nasty?
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I had floor-to-ceiling pictures of Nasty.
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And I had his picture
on my pillowcase...
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...and I would lick it or kiss it and cry
with it before I would go to sleep.
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Yeah, dig it, baby.
What about a guy named Stig?
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-How come you never say anything?
-He's the quiet one.
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Yeah, he's the quiet one.
He's a dark horse, he is.
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I was very, very fond of Stig.
Liked him the best...
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...because I loved the way he played.
I loved his length.
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-Excuse me?
-His length.
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All right, The Rutles. The Rutles--
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What do you mean? What word
could I possibly have forgotten?
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I said "Dirk," I said "Nasty"...
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...and I said "Stig."
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You don't mean "Bary," do you?
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To start off loving Bary,
especially when you're young--
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There's just something
funny about him.
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He was the funny drummer.
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Oh, my God. Bary...
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Not a good-looking man,
and yet the women were screaming.
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I was hoping, when I was of age and got
out behind my mother's apron strings...
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...that I could sleep with some of them
as soon as I could.
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I think it's the kind of thing
that rightfully...
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...should have been kept off
The Ed Sullivan Show.
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Ladies and gentlemen, The Rutles.
Let's hear it for them.
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A lot of us saw them for the first time
when they played The Ed Sullivan Show.
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I saw The Rutles' first appearance
on The Ed Sullivan Show.
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It was a cultural phenomenon.
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I saw them first, I think,
on The Ed Sullivan Show.
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And, you know--
I mean, I was captivated...
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...and just short of being turned-on.
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I thought, "My gosh...
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...I'm going to do most
of my hair like that."
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And that's what I did.
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So through high school, I had
this side of my hair like The Rutles...
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...and this side was short...
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...because they didn't like long hair
in the schools.
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So I would sit like this in school.
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But then outside the school,
I would go like that.
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A lot of people thought
I looked like Dirk.
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But how did The Rutles
get to number one?
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Ron Nasty had been born in 1940...
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...and raised by his uncle,
a well-known Liverpool ventriloquist.
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Who's a pretty boy, then?
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He was a very sensitive boy...
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...whose only fault was violence.
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At the age of 6,
he blew up his local school.
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It was a cry for help, really,
when you look at it truthfully.
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I mean, it's quite common in young
children, in boys, particularly.
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It's sheer high spirits, you know?
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-At 6?
-It's normal adolescent stuff.
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So how did he channel this aggression?
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He took up the banjo.
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The banjo is the perfect instrument
for the antisocial.
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Steve, you play the banjo.
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-Yes, I do.
-And would you play something for us?
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Oh, sure. I'd be happy to.
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I'm sorry, would you play a Rutle tune?
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No. No.
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He was always playing
with his little banjo...
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...day and night, just strumming away.
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Sometimes locked in the bathroom,
you know...
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...for hours, just playing with it.
If you know what I mean.
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Yes, yes, I think I--
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Rubbing away until he had
something to show for it.
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-Yes, yes.
-You know what young boys are like.
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I mean, they're constantly,
constantly playing with it.
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-Yes, I think we get your drift.
-Rub, rub, rub.
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Yes, thank you.
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Shut up.
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At first, they couldn't
decide on their name.
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They were The Silver Rutles,
The Ruts, The Tuls, The Sluts...
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...even Alma Cogan
before finally becoming The Rutles.
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Ron Nasty, an ex-banjo player
of no fixed ability.
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Dirk McQuickly, a left-footed guitarist.
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Stig O'Hara, a very thin man.
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And Bar ring ton Wumble, or,
as he was better known, Bary Wom.
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The Rutles were still very bad.
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And there was only one place
they could play...
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...and that was Hamburg.
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There was only one place they could
play, and that was Hamburg.
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And that was Hamburg.
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And it was here in Hamburg that
The Rutles would discover leather...
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...amphetamines and shagging.
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Hamburg sowed the germs
of their popularity.
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Indeed, one might almost say,
sowed the Germans of their popularity.
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Astro Glide, a German photographer,
who took these shots...
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...gave The Rutles their mop-top haircuts
and put them into leather trousers.
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Yes, I made them very, very tight leather
trousers because you want to see--
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Everybody wants to see their,
how you say:
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-Talent?
-Yeah, the balls.
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Yeah, it's very:
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-Disgusting?
-Yeah, exciting.
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You know, I mean I hate to, you know,
blow my own-- I wish I could, but...
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I came up with the trousers.
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And they're very, very tight.
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And that was important because,
you know, they had to wear something.
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But it's as if they weren't
wearing anything.
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They played the Rat Keller...
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...in the heart of
the ancient hooker district.
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Ancient hookers were everywhere.
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Hans Hankie is a German rockologist
who came from Hamburg...
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...who has studied The Rutles
and their effect on the world...
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...through his work as a rockologist.
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That was Hitler's design for a plane
called the Shtupa...
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...which was designed to drop
large penises on the enemy.
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Screaming penises.
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The Shtupa would fall
from the sky dropping penises.
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But they changed it to the Shtuka...
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...because they are afraid...
233
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...because Hitler only had one ball
and Goring had no balls at all, and that--
234
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Hans, what about The Rutles?
235
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Oh, the Fräuleins. Crazy for them.
236
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Yelling at them:
237
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Which sounds like, "I want dick."
238
00:15:43,876 --> 00:15:46,538
But no, it means,
"I love you. I love you."
239
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And they loved them.
More than just love, they wanted--
240
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Thank you very much indeed
for agreeing to talk to us today.
241
00:15:56,122 --> 00:15:59,615
Oh, it's great to talk with you,
and will the check clear?
242
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It'll be a small one from the BBC.
243
00:16:02,795 --> 00:16:06,459
Oh, BBC. I remember
listening to them as a child.
244
00:16:06,632 --> 00:16:08,657
"The chicken has lips."
245
00:16:08,835 --> 00:16:13,773
We would hear your broadcast--
"The fox is in a nightgown.
246
00:16:13,940 --> 00:16:17,376
I repeat, the fox is in a nightgown."
247
00:16:18,177 --> 00:16:21,044
You crazy people.
I wonder how you won the war...
248
00:16:21,214 --> 00:16:23,876
...with these strange riddles
you're broadcasting.
249
00:16:24,050 --> 00:16:26,451
But yet the French
blew up a train afterwards.
250
00:16:26,619 --> 00:16:30,886
I remember my uncle said, "The fox is
in a nightgown," and the train blew up.
251
00:16:31,457 --> 00:16:32,822
Yeah, I have bad memories.
252
00:16:34,227 --> 00:16:36,662
So with their haircuts
and their trousers...
253
00:16:36,829 --> 00:16:39,526
...The Rutles returned home
to The Cavern.
254
00:16:39,699 --> 00:16:42,191
One day, a strange man
with a pronounced limp...
255
00:16:42,368 --> 00:16:44,530
...hopped down the stairs
into The Cavern.
256
00:16:44,704 --> 00:16:46,331
He'd been asking a sailor for--
257
00:16:46,506 --> 00:16:50,340
Well, never mind what he was asking
for, because the rest is history.
258
00:16:50,510 --> 00:16:54,674
The man who hopped down the stairs
became Leggy. their legendary manager.
259
00:16:54,847 --> 00:16:57,339
You remember The Cavern?
There was only one doorway.
260
00:16:57,517 --> 00:16:59,542
When somebody opened the door,
light came in.
261
00:17:01,187 --> 00:17:03,622
I saw this dark apparition,
strange apparition.
262
00:17:03,789 --> 00:17:05,257
Leggy was a strange man.
263
00:17:05,958 --> 00:17:07,653
Even in profile he was strange.
264
00:17:07,827 --> 00:17:10,421
Leggy. at the beginning,
would walk around saying:
265
00:17:10,596 --> 00:17:14,157
"The Rutles are gonna be bigger
than Elvis." And he'd be laughed at.
266
00:17:14,333 --> 00:17:16,233
He was laughed at
because of how he walked.
267
00:17:16,402 --> 00:17:18,700
So he walked into these meetings
at a disadvantage.
268
00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:23,009
When he said, "My band will be bigger
than Elvis," they laughed...
269
00:17:23,175 --> 00:17:25,576
...all the more heartily.
But he was right, of course.
270
00:17:25,745 --> 00:17:27,975
I asked all the roadies
who this guy was.
271
00:17:28,147 --> 00:17:32,175
They told me he was Leggy Mountbatten,
and he was gonna manage The Rutles.
272
00:17:32,351 --> 00:17:36,413
But everybody knew
that he didn't really like music.
273
00:17:36,622 --> 00:17:40,354
-So, what did he really like?
-He loved the trousers.
274
00:17:51,437 --> 00:17:54,805
I was amazed that they could sing
in trousers so tight.
275
00:17:56,475 --> 00:17:58,534
They did sing high.
276
00:18:03,849 --> 00:18:05,317
It was the trousers.
277
00:18:05,484 --> 00:18:07,077
I know it was the trousers.
278
00:18:07,253 --> 00:18:08,687
And I went out...
279
00:18:08,854 --> 00:18:13,485
...and I bought women's
extra-small trousers.
280
00:18:13,659 --> 00:18:16,594
These were trousers that were meant
for a little girl.
281
00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:19,129
They were-- They were pink.
282
00:18:19,298 --> 00:18:23,030
And I buttered my legs,
and I squeezed into these trousers...
283
00:18:23,202 --> 00:18:26,467
...so that you could just--
Nothing was left to the imagination.
284
00:18:27,073 --> 00:18:29,098
And let's just say...
285
00:18:29,275 --> 00:18:31,972
...my love life improved dramatically...
286
00:18:32,612 --> 00:18:35,013
...several years after I put
those trousers on.
287
00:18:50,429 --> 00:18:52,420
The Rutles were now legends.
288
00:18:52,598 --> 00:18:54,965
At the Lunchtime Achievement Awards...
289
00:18:55,134 --> 00:18:58,069
...they met the queen,
who awarded them the MBE.
290
00:19:02,842 --> 00:19:04,742
Must have been an honor
meeting the queen.
291
00:19:04,910 --> 00:19:08,346
She's a lovely lady. She'll be nice
when she's finished.
292
00:19:08,514 --> 00:19:11,142
-Stig, how did you feel?
-He felt very, very proud.
293
00:19:11,317 --> 00:19:14,514
And honoured. He'd like to say hello
to his friends and pets at home.
294
00:19:14,687 --> 00:19:17,850
And he'd like to request Vera Lynn
singing "Far, Far Away."
295
00:19:18,024 --> 00:19:21,654
-She doesn't sing "Far, Far Away."
-She sings far too close.
296
00:19:21,827 --> 00:19:25,764
Lady Beth Mouse-Paddler is the wife
of the British ambassador.
297
00:19:25,931 --> 00:19:26,921
That's "Min to."
298
00:19:28,267 --> 00:19:30,895
It's written "Mouse-Paddler,"
but it's pronounced "Min to."
299
00:19:31,070 --> 00:19:32,299
It's an English thing.
300
00:19:32,471 --> 00:19:35,441
The Rutles visited you here in 1964.
301
00:19:35,608 --> 00:19:37,838
Yes, that's right.
I remember the occasion.
302
00:19:38,010 --> 00:19:41,810
Dreadful, horrible, lower working-class
boys with appalling accents.
303
00:19:41,981 --> 00:19:44,040
One couldn't understand
a word they said.
304
00:19:44,216 --> 00:19:46,844
-What happened?
-The evening with the ambassador...
305
00:19:47,019 --> 00:19:49,283
...was an absolute disaster.
306
00:19:49,455 --> 00:19:52,288
They came in very late, very drunk...
307
00:19:52,458 --> 00:19:55,018
...staggered around, shagged the staff,
and left.
308
00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:57,561
-The Rutles?
-No, no, the ambassador.
309
00:20:04,103 --> 00:20:05,332
The Rutles were famous.
310
00:20:05,504 --> 00:20:08,269
Perhaps more famous
than anyone ever before.
311
00:20:08,441 --> 00:20:11,103
They had reached the very
barnacle of success.
312
00:20:11,644 --> 00:20:15,478
But the irony was, they had
now become prisoners.
313
00:20:15,648 --> 00:20:17,207
Prisoners of fame.
314
00:20:17,750 --> 00:20:19,809
The whole world was in love
with The Rutles
315
00:20:19,985 --> 00:20:22,352
...but they couldn't leave
their hotel room.
316
00:20:22,521 --> 00:20:25,183
-What are we going to do today?
-What?
317
00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:28,459
Hey, look who's in the cupboard.
318
00:20:28,627 --> 00:20:31,221
Everywhere they went,
they were stalked by girls.
319
00:20:35,134 --> 00:20:38,001
-There's a couple of Judys here.
-All right, come out.
320
00:20:38,170 --> 00:20:39,569
They're everywhere.
321
00:20:39,739 --> 00:20:41,673
They must be under the bloody bed.
322
00:20:41,841 --> 00:20:43,707
Think there's one in me corn flakes.
323
00:20:43,876 --> 00:20:47,471
In Hollywood, The Rutles rented
this house in Benedict Canyon.
324
00:20:47,646 --> 00:20:52,311
Two girls hired a helicopter
and leaped from it into their pool.
325
00:20:57,022 --> 00:20:58,080
We made it.
326
00:20:58,357 --> 00:21:02,726
So, what was it about The Rutles
that made them so successful?
327
00:21:02,895 --> 00:21:05,830
Was it the women,
or was it the trousers?
328
00:21:05,998 --> 00:21:09,332
Maybe it was their sense of humour,
or was it their hairstyles?
329
00:21:09,502 --> 00:21:11,994
Perhaps it was the Cold War.
Maybe it was the Kennedy's.
330
00:21:12,171 --> 00:21:13,639
What are--? What are you doing?
331
00:21:13,806 --> 00:21:16,036
I'm doing a documentary on The Rutles.
332
00:21:16,208 --> 00:21:19,234
-I'm doing a documentary on The Rutles.
-Get your own idea.
333
00:21:19,411 --> 00:21:20,776
This is my idea.
334
00:21:20,946 --> 00:21:24,177
-Well, get your own crew.
-This is my crew.
335
00:21:24,350 --> 00:21:27,843
So it was here where The Rutles
first began--
336
00:21:28,020 --> 00:21:31,183
What was it about The Rutles
that made them so--?
337
00:21:31,357 --> 00:21:34,327
Maybe it was their trousers,
or perhaps it was--
338
00:21:34,493 --> 00:21:36,928
What was it about The Rutles--?
This is my--
339
00:21:37,096 --> 00:21:39,394
-Trousers. Trousers!
-You shit.
340
00:21:39,565 --> 00:21:41,329
Get out, you Yankee swine.
341
00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:44,265
What was it about The Rutles
that made them--?
342
00:21:44,436 --> 00:21:48,600
Maybe it was their sense of humour,
or perhaps it was--
343
00:21:48,774 --> 00:21:51,471
What was it about The Rutles
that made them so successful?
344
00:21:51,644 --> 00:21:54,204
-Maybe it was their trousers!
-Can you believe this guy?
345
00:21:54,380 --> 00:21:56,849
-Or their hairstyles!
-Would you--?
346
00:21:58,450 --> 00:22:01,476
What was it about The Rutles
that made them so successful?
347
00:22:01,654 --> 00:22:03,383
-Maybe it was--
-Massive.
348
00:22:03,556 --> 00:22:04,887
The shagging was the fuel.
349
00:22:05,057 --> 00:22:07,025
I think a lot of it was the shagging.
350
00:22:07,193 --> 00:22:09,491
The Rutles is not all about shagging.
351
00:22:09,662 --> 00:22:12,290
It's not all about that.
It's largely about that.
352
00:22:12,464 --> 00:22:16,401
The word "rock 'n' roll" itself,
after all, essentially means shagging.
353
00:22:16,569 --> 00:22:19,595
And so of course The Rutles
were all about shagging.
354
00:22:19,772 --> 00:22:21,638
That's-- What is this music about?
355
00:22:21,807 --> 00:22:23,366
Isn't all music about that?
356
00:22:23,542 --> 00:22:27,570
I mean, didn't Bach essentially
want to get it done, so to speak?
357
00:22:27,746 --> 00:22:31,376
Didn't, you know, Der Bingle there,
making all those records in the '30s?
358
00:22:31,550 --> 00:22:34,451
Artie Shaw, I think, was all about...
359
00:22:34,620 --> 00:22:37,180
...what's happening after the show,
you know.
360
00:22:37,356 --> 00:22:39,290
Carl Perkins and Elvis in the '50s.
361
00:22:39,458 --> 00:22:42,291
I think it's always been about,
"Let's dance...
362
00:22:42,461 --> 00:22:46,398
...and then let's dance,"
if you know what I mean.
363
00:22:46,565 --> 00:22:48,397
I'm sure they wanted The Rutles.
364
00:22:48,567 --> 00:22:51,502
There was no doubt about it
that at the--
365
00:22:51,670 --> 00:22:54,162
You were ready...
366
00:22:55,307 --> 00:22:58,333
...to have sex after you listened
to some of their records.
367
00:22:58,510 --> 00:23:00,000
I even knew that when I was 10.
368
00:23:01,847 --> 00:23:03,246
There had always been girls...
369
00:23:03,415 --> 00:23:07,181
...hundreds of them. But some
were more permanent than others.
370
00:23:07,353 --> 00:23:11,187
Nasty had been married early,
about 7:30, maybe a quarter to 8.
371
00:23:11,357 --> 00:23:14,657
And his Liverpool girlfriend, Carinthia,
was pregnant at the time.
372
00:23:14,827 --> 00:23:17,125
But Nasty was constantly on tour.
373
00:23:17,296 --> 00:23:19,060
It was no recipe for a happy marriage.
374
00:23:19,231 --> 00:23:21,859
Somehow, Carinthia was always
left behind.
375
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,502
Bary was the next to be married, to his
childhood sweetheart, Brenda Liola.
376
00:23:32,678 --> 00:23:36,478
The wedding arrangements were so
secret that even Bary didn't show up.
377
00:23:36,649 --> 00:23:39,584
When they were married,
she was at St. Bede's Church, Wigan...
378
00:23:39,752 --> 00:23:43,450
...while Bary was on-stage
at the Scunthorpe Coliseum.
379
00:24:05,978 --> 00:24:08,845
"Why don't we do it in the middle
of the road?"
380
00:24:09,014 --> 00:24:11,642
Well, obviously
because it's uncomfortable.
381
00:24:11,817 --> 00:24:15,082
You'll hurt your knees,
and she'll get her bottom scraped.
382
00:24:15,254 --> 00:24:18,986
And then again, it's cold. It's very
difficult to maintain an erection...
383
00:24:19,158 --> 00:24:20,990
...while anywhere, really,
out in public.
384
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,390
Actually, even in the bedroom,
it's kind of hard.
385
00:24:23,562 --> 00:24:26,463
The point is that there's
just too much traffic.
386
00:24:26,632 --> 00:24:30,762
There isn't any room to do
it in the middle of the road.
387
00:24:54,593 --> 00:24:55,856
Madonna's house.
388
00:24:56,028 --> 00:24:57,894
And we came here to ask Madonna...
389
00:24:58,063 --> 00:25:00,157
...the influences of The Rutles
on her music...
390
00:25:00,332 --> 00:25:02,061
...what she thinks
about The Rutles...
391
00:25:02,234 --> 00:25:05,169
...and whether she loves
and adores The Rutles.
392
00:25:05,337 --> 00:25:09,035
But sadly, she sold the house
and moved to London.
393
00:25:09,208 --> 00:25:13,645
We flew to Paris to ask Céline Dion
what she thinks about Rutle music...
394
00:25:13,812 --> 00:25:16,645
...but she lives in Miami.
395
00:25:16,815 --> 00:25:18,909
So we flew to Puerto Rico...
396
00:25:19,084 --> 00:25:23,385
...to ask Jennifer Lopez about the
influence of The Rutles on her music.
397
00:25:23,555 --> 00:25:24,989
But sadly...
398
00:25:25,157 --> 00:25:27,057
...she's in New York.
399
00:25:27,226 --> 00:25:29,490
I'm in New York,
and it's tremendously exciting...
400
00:25:29,661 --> 00:25:33,029
...because I've actually bumped
into Jennifer Lopez here on the street.
401
00:25:33,198 --> 00:25:35,599
Jennifer, apparently you live here.
Is that right?
402
00:25:35,768 --> 00:25:38,203
-That's true. That's correct.
-This is so cool for me.
403
00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:41,806
I mean, I've been trying to get a hold
of you to ask you about The Rutles.
404
00:25:41,974 --> 00:25:44,136
Oh, I love The Rutles. I love The Rutles.
405
00:25:44,309 --> 00:25:46,107
-No way.
-Yes, they're so cool.
406
00:25:46,278 --> 00:25:48,679
I think there must be a big influence
on your music.
407
00:25:48,847 --> 00:25:51,316
Oh, definitely.
They're one of the biggest influences.
408
00:25:51,483 --> 00:25:54,077
That is so exciting. I'm just so thrilled.
409
00:25:54,253 --> 00:25:56,847
Thank you so much for agreeing
to give us the time today.
410
00:25:57,022 --> 00:25:58,820
Oh, you're welcome. Anytime.
411
00:25:58,991 --> 00:26:02,086
So from New York
and Jennifer Lopez...
412
00:26:02,261 --> 00:26:04,161
...back to somewhere else.
413
00:26:04,329 --> 00:26:06,855
Golly. Oh, look, there's Madonna.
414
00:26:18,610 --> 00:26:20,738
The Rutles were always innovators.
415
00:26:20,913 --> 00:26:25,146
Perhaps never more so than when
they released The Triangular Album.
416
00:26:25,317 --> 00:26:28,844
When this triangular record came out...
417
00:26:30,956 --> 00:26:33,015
...you couldn't get enough of them.
418
00:26:33,192 --> 00:26:37,254
First of all,
because most records were round.
419
00:26:37,429 --> 00:26:39,898
And here, man, this was triangular.
420
00:26:40,065 --> 00:26:42,966
And then when you put it
on your record player...
421
00:26:43,135 --> 00:26:46,628
...and instead of this round thing
just going around in a circle...
422
00:26:46,805 --> 00:26:49,206
...you had this spinning triangle.
423
00:26:49,374 --> 00:26:52,901
I mean, we didn't even turn
the volume up on the record player.
424
00:26:53,078 --> 00:26:55,410
We just looked at it spinning around.
425
00:26:55,814 --> 00:26:58,681
It was so great that it's never been--
No one's tried it since.
426
00:26:58,851 --> 00:27:02,481
You can't even touch it. No one else
has put out a triangular record...
427
00:27:02,654 --> 00:27:04,588
...because The Rutles did it. Period.
428
00:27:04,756 --> 00:27:07,817
They didn't do it first,
they did it. Period.
429
00:27:07,993 --> 00:27:10,655
That was unusual when you went out
and bought the album.
430
00:27:10,829 --> 00:27:13,161
Everybody was waiting in queues
to buy the album.
431
00:27:13,332 --> 00:27:15,596
Then when you pulled it out,
it was triangular.
432
00:27:15,767 --> 00:27:18,759
Everybody was like, "Wow, cool."
433
00:27:18,937 --> 00:27:21,304
But how did The Triangular Album
come about?
434
00:27:21,473 --> 00:27:24,306
Kevin Wongle was a record designer
in London.
435
00:27:24,476 --> 00:27:26,240
To actually get into
a photo session...
436
00:27:27,846 --> 00:27:30,406
...with Ron and Stig and those guys,
it just floored me.
437
00:27:30,582 --> 00:27:33,074
I'm not gay or anything,
but to be around these guys...
438
00:27:33,252 --> 00:27:34,651
...I was totally starstruck.
439
00:27:34,820 --> 00:27:38,586
But anyway, I'll just give you a little
idea. This is one of the mock-ups...
440
00:27:38,757 --> 00:27:43,092
...of the album, some ideas I had
for the shot.
441
00:27:43,262 --> 00:27:45,697
As you can see,
this was taken out of a toilet bowl...
442
00:27:45,864 --> 00:27:48,993
...looking up, and they're all looking
down at the toilet bowl.
443
00:27:49,168 --> 00:27:52,661
This one was actually on the market for,
I believe it was three months.
444
00:27:52,838 --> 00:27:56,206
And it was selling well,
but a lot of returns.
445
00:27:56,375 --> 00:27:58,901
Because, again, people were missing
some of the songs.
446
00:27:59,077 --> 00:28:01,808
It'd play part of the song,
the needle would fall off...
447
00:28:01,980 --> 00:28:05,143
...and then it'd come back up again.
Sorry, it's upside-down.
448
00:28:05,317 --> 00:28:11,051
This jacket sleeve, and with the album
in there, became dangerous.
449
00:28:11,223 --> 00:28:13,658
Kids were doing drugs.
They were chasing each other...
450
00:28:13,825 --> 00:28:16,624
...with the album and some,
I believe, were actually stabbed.
451
00:28:16,795 --> 00:28:19,196
This image of the boys looking down...
452
00:28:19,364 --> 00:28:22,356
As it spun around, we found later on...
453
00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:25,128
...it almost looked like turds
going down the toilet.
454
00:28:29,741 --> 00:28:33,268
The silver screen beckoned.
The Rutles came here to Hollywood.
455
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,644
Oh, fuck.
456
00:28:36,815 --> 00:28:38,806
But it was here in Hollywood--
457
00:28:41,019 --> 00:28:43,010
Hollywood. We're here
at the Hollywood Bowl.
458
00:28:44,356 --> 00:28:47,053
It was from here at the Hollywood Bowl--
Well, over there...
459
00:28:47,226 --> 00:28:51,185
...that The Rutles then went on
to become movie stars.
460
00:29:51,890 --> 00:29:53,051
I loved A Hard Day's Rut.
461
00:29:53,225 --> 00:29:56,855
I loved A Hard Day's Rut.
I loved A Hard Day's Rut.
462
00:29:57,029 --> 00:30:02,433
That has influenced
all of my work. That...
463
00:30:03,035 --> 00:30:04,969
...and some of the stuff
The Turtles did.
464
00:30:07,572 --> 00:30:10,598
I remember when they all
came out of the train...
465
00:30:10,776 --> 00:30:13,802
...and then piled onto the tracks
and tried to kill themselves.
466
00:30:13,979 --> 00:30:16,311
So when the train left,
they almost got run over.
467
00:30:16,481 --> 00:30:19,212
That was hilarious.
And then they all came...
468
00:30:19,384 --> 00:30:23,844
Then they got out of the train...
They watered down the train.
469
00:30:24,022 --> 00:30:26,957
You know what, I have A Hard Day's Rut
confused a little bit...
470
00:30:27,125 --> 00:30:28,991
...with Schindler's List right now.
471
00:30:53,085 --> 00:30:55,019
Hard Day's Rut was--
472
00:30:55,187 --> 00:30:56,985
It was like an advertisement, in a way.
473
00:30:57,155 --> 00:31:01,922
It existed as propaganda. It was there
to celebrate these four characters.
474
00:31:02,094 --> 00:31:03,892
The music is, you know, what it is.
475
00:31:04,062 --> 00:31:07,589
It'll always be legendary.
and those guys will--
476
00:31:07,766 --> 00:31:12,636
But A Hard Day's Rut was just, like,
being with them on a personal level.
477
00:31:12,804 --> 00:31:14,829
That was wonderful.
I thought it was funny.
478
00:31:15,006 --> 00:31:17,941
It was neat to see their personalities
shining through.
479
00:31:18,110 --> 00:31:20,602
Anyone who doesn't like
Hard Day's Rut should be beat.
480
00:31:20,812 --> 00:31:24,646
Oh, Jesus. I would pay money
not to go and see A Hard--
481
00:31:24,816 --> 00:31:28,275
Wild horses couldn't drag me
in to see that.
482
00:31:28,453 --> 00:31:30,046
I hated it. I hated it.
483
00:31:31,323 --> 00:31:33,917
Just how good were Rutle films?
484
00:31:34,092 --> 00:31:37,687
Well, we flew all the way to New York
to talk with legendary film director...
485
00:31:37,863 --> 00:31:41,231
...Mike Nichols about the Rutle films.
486
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:42,765
-Mike, hello.
-Hello.
487
00:31:42,934 --> 00:31:45,130
-Oh, you don't mind if I call you Mike?
-No, no.
488
00:31:45,303 --> 00:31:49,331
Great. Thanks. Thanks, by the way, for
agreeing to talk to us about Rutle films.
489
00:31:49,508 --> 00:31:50,907
Glad to do it.
490
00:31:51,076 --> 00:31:55,479
Mike is one of the greatest film directors
of all time in the entire world...
491
00:31:55,647 --> 00:31:58,139
-...and one of my personal favourites.
-Thank you.
492
00:31:58,316 --> 00:32:00,375
And I love your movies.
I've seen all of them.
493
00:32:00,552 --> 00:32:01,849
I'm very glad.
494
00:32:03,488 --> 00:32:05,582
If I can start with A Hard Day's Rut.
495
00:32:05,757 --> 00:32:07,657
Yes, the black-and-white one.
496
00:32:07,826 --> 00:32:12,354
Mike, you directed The Godfather, which
was always one of my favourite films...
497
00:32:12,531 --> 00:32:15,501
-...and I was wondering if--
-Are you kidding?
498
00:32:15,667 --> 00:32:17,965
No, I really liked it.
I thought it was great.
499
00:32:18,136 --> 00:32:21,800
-Oh, fuck this.
-What?
500
00:32:50,669 --> 00:32:53,832
I love Ouch! It's hilarious.
501
00:32:54,005 --> 00:32:58,909
The funniest part to me in Ouch!
Is when Dirk steps on the sticker...
502
00:32:59,077 --> 00:33:05,574
...the little tiny thorn in his bare feet,
and he yells, "Ouch!"
503
00:33:15,126 --> 00:33:19,256
I heard a few bars of "Ouch!" from
somebody's car as they were passing by.
504
00:33:19,431 --> 00:33:22,401
They had it on the radio,
and I just heard, like, three phrases.
505
00:33:22,567 --> 00:33:25,764
And I heard, "Ouch, ouch, ouch.,”
as it was going by.
506
00:33:25,937 --> 00:33:28,167
And I immediately went out
and found that record.
507
00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:31,275
And I just started listening
to that record alone.
508
00:33:31,443 --> 00:33:35,380
And I listened to that record
for-- Straight. For 17 weeks.
509
00:33:56,234 --> 00:33:58,828
I thought their movies
were fucking endless.
510
00:34:01,206 --> 00:34:04,506
The only one of The Rutles' films
not to achieve success...
511
00:34:04,676 --> 00:34:06,804
...was the Tragical History Tour.
512
00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:08,513
In many ways, it was a disaster.
513
00:34:37,075 --> 00:34:38,873
Dirk will always say, "It was the best.
514
00:34:39,044 --> 00:34:41,809
It was wonderful,
and it all comes together."
515
00:34:41,980 --> 00:34:45,473
No. It's... No, I'm sorry, Dirk.
It's a mess.
516
00:34:45,650 --> 00:34:48,085
It's just a big mess.
517
00:34:48,253 --> 00:34:49,880
It was a mess.
518
00:35:06,037 --> 00:35:08,631
Mexico! And we're here in Mexico...
519
00:35:08,807 --> 00:35:11,538
...because, well,
we're actually here in Mexico...
520
00:35:11,710 --> 00:35:15,010
...because the travel agent screwed up.
He sent us via Cancún.
521
00:35:15,180 --> 00:35:18,115
He got a cheaper deal on the plane--
522
00:35:18,283 --> 00:35:21,617
It really doesn't matter why we're here.
We're here in Mexico...
523
00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:25,848
...because it's here in Mexico
that The Rutles never played.
524
00:35:26,024 --> 00:35:27,617
They were supposed to come here...
525
00:35:27,792 --> 00:35:31,592
...but they decided that San Francisco
would be their final gig.
526
00:35:32,697 --> 00:35:37,635
San Francisco, everyone's
favourite city by the gay-- Bay.
527
00:35:37,802 --> 00:35:39,292
I'm standing at the very spot--
528
00:35:40,872 --> 00:35:44,900
Well, over there was the very spot
where The Rutles played...
529
00:35:45,076 --> 00:35:51,413
...their last concert ever
in Candlestick Park. Right there.
530
00:35:51,716 --> 00:35:54,447
Here, the legend came--
531
00:35:54,619 --> 00:36:00,080
Well, didn't come to an end,
but was beginning to come to an end.
532
00:36:00,258 --> 00:36:04,456
Well, maybe beginning to come
to the middle of the legend...
533
00:36:04,629 --> 00:36:07,860
...which would finally end...
534
00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:09,964
...somewhere else.
535
00:36:39,998 --> 00:36:43,434
The Rutles' last live appearance
was actually out where I was...
536
00:36:45,470 --> 00:36:47,529
...in San Francisco
at Candlestick Park in
537
00:36:47,706 --> 00:36:49,105
-'66.
-That was the big show.
538
00:36:49,274 --> 00:36:50,708
And I did have tickets to it...
539
00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:53,970
...and then I traded it to a friend,
my tickets to see The Rutles...
540
00:36:54,145 --> 00:36:56,705
...for 35 hits of acid.
541
00:36:57,182 --> 00:37:00,174
Now, this is a true story. That's--
542
00:37:00,351 --> 00:37:02,718
So I met The Rutles in a different way.
543
00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:16,927
The Rutles had finished touring...
544
00:37:17,102 --> 00:37:20,367
...and now they threw themselves
into the recording studio.
545
00:37:20,538 --> 00:37:24,566
When they emerged,
they were very strangely dressed.
546
00:37:29,114 --> 00:37:31,811
They were also behaving very weirdly.
547
00:37:31,983 --> 00:37:35,783
The Rutles were under
the influence of tea.
548
00:37:42,594 --> 00:37:47,555
The resulting album
was the classic Sgt. Rutter.
549
00:37:52,670 --> 00:37:56,163
I mean, you'd thought the world had
changed when Sgt. Rutter come out.
550
00:37:56,341 --> 00:38:00,107
Leggy sent me an advance copy
of the tape...
551
00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:02,906
...and I had The Turtles--
You remember The Turtles?
552
00:38:04,449 --> 00:38:06,178
They were at my apartment,
and I said:
553
00:38:06,351 --> 00:38:08,046
"I've got this tape for you to hear."
554
00:38:08,219 --> 00:38:10,187
And I put Sgt. Rutter
on my tape recorder.
555
00:38:10,355 --> 00:38:11,686
Well...
556
00:38:11,856 --> 00:38:14,291
...you've never heard
of The Turtles since.
557
00:38:23,601 --> 00:38:25,160
When I heard Sgt. Rutter, we ran.
558
00:38:25,336 --> 00:38:27,771
I had my trousers under my arm.
I was out the window.
559
00:38:34,946 --> 00:38:39,281
I used to play that album over
and over and over. Yeah.
560
00:38:39,450 --> 00:38:43,250
-And did you like it?
-1, you know-- I used it to fall asleep.
561
00:38:43,421 --> 00:38:47,449
And, you know, helped myself
fall asleep, and it was great...
562
00:38:47,625 --> 00:38:51,584
...because you get into maybe
one or two songs some nights.
563
00:38:51,763 --> 00:38:54,596
You can be completely wide awake
and thinking:
564
00:38:54,766 --> 00:38:56,928
"I am never going to fall asleep."
565
00:38:57,101 --> 00:39:01,436
And I would put on Sgt. Rutter,
and immediately, I was out.
566
00:39:07,312 --> 00:39:09,610
The effects of Sgt. Rutter
were interminable.
567
00:39:09,781 --> 00:39:13,411
Some people even believed there
were messages hidden in the lyrics.
568
00:39:13,585 --> 00:39:16,680
The Rutles always deny that they
had intended to have any message...
569
00:39:16,855 --> 00:39:21,850
...on the records, but we've all done this
when we were, you know, kids.
570
00:39:22,026 --> 00:39:26,190
We all play back Sgt. Rutter
and play back Dark Side of the Sun...
571
00:39:26,364 --> 00:39:29,800
...at the same time while you're
watching The Wizard of Oz...
572
00:39:29,968 --> 00:39:32,198
...while you're slightly high.
573
00:39:32,370 --> 00:39:38,070
And it's amazing how it all syncs up.
And it's an episode of Bonanza.
574
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,006
Sgt. Rutter led to
the Summer of Lunch.
575
00:39:46,651 --> 00:39:50,610
The Summer of Lunch, when there
was all that free food going around?
576
00:39:51,489 --> 00:39:55,722
Yeah, I got diseases. That was when
I was really eating everything.
577
00:39:55,894 --> 00:39:59,159
You know, as The Rutles say,
"All you need is lunch."
578
00:40:15,380 --> 00:40:19,783
In June 1967, the Summer of Lunch
came to a fitting climax...
579
00:40:19,951 --> 00:40:23,717
...with a live recording by The Rutles
on worldwide TV.
580
00:40:39,537 --> 00:40:41,062
The "Love Life" sessions were--
581
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,298
You knew something
was really happening.
582
00:40:43,474 --> 00:40:48,435
I mean, it was the first round-the-world,
round-the-world thing...
583
00:40:48,613 --> 00:40:50,308
...where everybody round the world...
584
00:40:50,481 --> 00:40:54,247
...could hear The Rutles singing
"Love Life" and be a part of it.
585
00:40:54,419 --> 00:40:56,319
But I was actually really a part of it...
586
00:40:56,487 --> 00:40:59,548
...because we were on Shabby Road
together, you know, in--
587
00:40:59,724 --> 00:41:02,557
You know studio two there,
where you walked down that thing?
588
00:41:02,727 --> 00:41:04,718
That wasn't the studio.
It was studio one...
589
00:41:04,896 --> 00:41:07,991
...where the big orchestra goes in.
I was sitting in front of Nasty.
590
00:41:09,334 --> 00:41:11,428
Mick and Keith were there.
All the lads were there.
591
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,074
Stig now discovered
the meaning of life...
592
00:41:25,249 --> 00:41:28,412
...right here at this Indian restaurant.
593
00:41:28,586 --> 00:41:29,644
It was curry.
594
00:41:32,023 --> 00:41:35,118
He studied transcendental mastication
under Arthur Sultan...
595
00:41:35,293 --> 00:41:38,888
...a former chef at this
Shangri-la restaurant.
596
00:41:39,063 --> 00:41:41,896
I remember the phase where they went
to the Indian restaurant.
597
00:41:42,066 --> 00:41:46,526
And they were eating curry...
598
00:41:46,704 --> 00:41:48,866
...and they found enlightenment...
599
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:54,206
...and a higher power for $8.95.
600
00:42:03,021 --> 00:42:05,820
Stig now invited the others
to join Arthur Sultan...
601
00:42:05,990 --> 00:42:08,960
...for a weekend of curry in Bognor.
602
00:42:09,127 --> 00:42:13,121
When it came to curry,
they were anxious not to miss the boat.
603
00:42:36,587 --> 00:42:40,581
With curry, The Rutles had grown
almost too hot.
604
00:42:40,758 --> 00:42:44,956
Now faith blew cold on their picnic lunch
with a sudden...
605
00:42:45,129 --> 00:42:48,190
...and surprising loss
of Leggy Mountbatten.
606
00:42:48,366 --> 00:42:53,668
With The Rutles growing and taking
charge of most of their activities...
607
00:42:53,838 --> 00:42:55,738
...he just slipped out of their lives.
608
00:43:00,645 --> 00:43:04,081
Leggy had diverted into managing
other groups and singers.
609
00:43:04,749 --> 00:43:07,218
Troy Nixon was Leggy's assistant.
610
00:43:07,385 --> 00:43:09,854
-Lover.
-Companion.
611
00:43:10,021 --> 00:43:11,318
Whatever.
612
00:43:11,489 --> 00:43:14,823
-He had quite the stable of young boys.
-Oh, yes.
613
00:43:16,694 --> 00:43:18,321
He always loved attractive young men.
614
00:43:18,496 --> 00:43:23,491
He always had his finger on the pulse
of the young boys here.
615
00:43:23,668 --> 00:43:28,868
They all had strange names,
like Wild, Damp, Thunder, Clap.
616
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,737
He tended to name them after
how they were in bed, you see.
617
00:43:31,909 --> 00:43:33,206
You know, I'm...
618
00:43:33,377 --> 00:43:38,941
Tommy Wild, Dickie Furious,
Jeffrey Willing, Billy Is-That-It.
619
00:43:39,117 --> 00:43:42,280
How did he know
what attracted teenage girls?
620
00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:44,950
He had the same taste in boys.
621
00:43:45,123 --> 00:43:48,320
Had The Rutles' bubble burst?
622
00:43:48,726 --> 00:43:50,387
Not quite.
623
00:43:50,561 --> 00:43:54,156
But night had fallen on their Broadway.
624
00:43:54,332 --> 00:43:58,030
The loss of Leggy
was a tremendous blow.
625
00:43:58,202 --> 00:44:02,571
For solace, The Rutles turned
to something stronger than a manager:
626
00:44:02,740 --> 00:44:04,230
Their wives.
627
00:44:04,408 --> 00:44:08,367
Dirk met and fell in love with
a young dog and its owner, Martini...
628
00:44:08,546 --> 00:44:09,809
...an exotic model.
629
00:44:33,771 --> 00:44:35,705
Nasty visited an exhibition
of broken art...
630
00:44:37,041 --> 00:44:38,668
...at The Pretentious Gallery, Soho.
631
00:44:38,843 --> 00:44:42,279
A midst the rubble of art, which had
been specially dropped from planes...
632
00:44:42,446 --> 00:44:46,906
...he found the artist herself,
Chastity, a simple German girl.
633
00:44:47,084 --> 00:44:49,781
It was lunch at first sight.
634
00:44:49,987 --> 00:44:51,421
Do you know there's this man...
635
00:44:51,589 --> 00:44:54,581
...in America who's done
all this research into vegetables.
636
00:44:54,759 --> 00:44:57,456
And peas, apparently,
are very intelligent.
637
00:44:57,628 --> 00:44:59,995
They can read people's thoughts.
638
00:45:00,164 --> 00:45:04,192
So I thought I'd write a song saying,
"Give peas a chance."
639
00:45:04,368 --> 00:45:07,633
Well, he took her everywhere.
I mean, even the shower.
640
00:45:07,805 --> 00:45:09,739
That was the beginning
of "shower power."
641
00:45:09,907 --> 00:45:11,807
The world is like a shower.
642
00:45:14,212 --> 00:45:20,151
It sort of drips on people, you know,
and it's supposed to get them clean...
643
00:45:20,318 --> 00:45:22,650
...but really you're only clean
from the inside.
644
00:45:22,820 --> 00:45:25,289
Isn't that what you said?
645
00:45:25,923 --> 00:45:28,392
That's what she said.
646
00:46:47,505 --> 00:46:51,203
The Rutles' music will be remembered
long after Mozart's paintings...
647
00:46:51,375 --> 00:46:54,868
...or Beethoven's after-dinner speeches
have been forgotten.
648
00:46:55,079 --> 00:46:58,242
But what was it that drove
The Rutles apart?
649
00:46:58,416 --> 00:47:02,148
Was it their trousers?
Or maybe it was their sense of humour.
650
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,051
Maybe it was the Cold War,
or maybe it was the cold weather.
651
00:47:05,222 --> 00:47:06,747
Give me that. What are you doing?
652
00:47:06,924 --> 00:47:08,392
-This is mine.
-No, this is mine.
653
00:47:08,559 --> 00:47:11,187
-I'm making this documentary.
-This is my documentary.
654
00:47:11,362 --> 00:47:13,160
-Stop it!
-I don't know who you are.
655
00:47:13,331 --> 00:47:16,562
-Well, you should know who I am.
-Will you get away? For heaven's sake.
656
00:47:16,734 --> 00:47:19,260
-Get off me.
-Get off me.
657
00:47:19,437 --> 00:47:22,372
You stupid rat. For God's sake.
658
00:47:22,540 --> 00:47:23,803
That's hurting. I'll sue.
659
00:47:23,974 --> 00:47:26,705
What was it that drove
The Rutles apart?
660
00:47:27,178 --> 00:47:30,876
I don't know. It's a lot of things.
I guess women, really.
661
00:47:31,048 --> 00:47:36,543
Women are a great divisive
force in The Rutles, I think.
662
00:47:36,721 --> 00:47:38,655
In a lot of bands.
663
00:47:38,823 --> 00:47:43,056
Not in ours, of course, but in The Rutles,
it was a big problem.
664
00:47:43,227 --> 00:47:45,855
How could you be a rock 'n' roll
singer if you're married?
665
00:47:46,030 --> 00:47:47,998
It's not possible.
666
00:47:48,165 --> 00:47:50,827
No, you'd have to have rock or roll,
you know?
667
00:47:51,001 --> 00:47:53,197
You can't have both of them
if you're married.
668
00:47:53,371 --> 00:47:59,071
As they broke up, they passed on to us
the one great truism...
669
00:47:59,243 --> 00:48:01,405
...that I think all humanity
can understand.
670
00:48:01,579 --> 00:48:06,449
That in the end, the lunch you make...
671
00:48:06,617 --> 00:48:12,681
...is equal to the lunch you take.
672
00:48:13,424 --> 00:48:15,825
And if you can abide by that,
my friend...
673
00:48:15,993 --> 00:48:20,362
...then you will never ever say "ouch."
674
00:48:22,633 --> 00:48:25,933
The breakup of The Rutles is chronicled
in their final film, Let it Rot.
675
00:48:27,271 --> 00:48:30,172
It's like watching a marriage fall apart.
676
00:48:30,908 --> 00:48:33,036
Only one moment enlivens the misery...
677
00:48:33,210 --> 00:48:35,736
...when The Rutles play live
together in public...
678
00:48:35,913 --> 00:48:38,848
...for the very last time
on a London rooftop.
679
00:49:16,220 --> 00:49:17,517
That's crap.
680
00:49:17,688 --> 00:49:21,886
Let it Rot was so bad,
The Rutles were arrested.
681
00:49:22,059 --> 00:49:23,584
-Let's go.
-Get your hands off.
682
00:49:23,761 --> 00:49:24,956
Go on.
683
00:49:25,129 --> 00:49:29,293
The end for The Rutles came quite
suddenly and unexpectedly.
684
00:49:29,467 --> 00:49:32,164
The Rutles had made
a tremendous impact--
685
00:49:33,938 --> 00:49:38,171
The breakup was the nicest part of their
entire career, I thought, you know.
686
00:49:38,342 --> 00:49:40,709
There was a sigh of relief
throughout the business...
687
00:49:40,878 --> 00:49:44,576
...that maybe we could
get back to inanity...
688
00:49:44,748 --> 00:49:50,687
...and the driving drumming that is the
essential key sign of rock and roll...
689
00:49:50,855 --> 00:49:53,187
...instead of all that
complicated bullshit...
690
00:49:53,357 --> 00:49:58,193
...and bringing in orchestrators
and video and all that nastiness.
691
00:49:58,362 --> 00:50:01,923
Sure. I thought,
"Well, they're broken up. Good idea."
692
00:50:02,099 --> 00:50:04,431
As a matter of fact,
it was the best idea they had.
693
00:50:04,602 --> 00:50:08,061
That kind of populist music is--
Won't last. It can't last.
694
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,333
Too many people know it.
Everybody can sing it.
695
00:50:10,508 --> 00:50:13,603
Everybody knows every word of every
song. How can it possibly last?
696
00:50:13,777 --> 00:50:17,736
It's an ephemeral kind
of flotsam and jetsam.
697
00:50:17,915 --> 00:50:21,146
It's nothing. It's small.
698
00:50:21,318 --> 00:50:27,280
It doesn't matter. It's insignificant.
It's of no consequence.
699
00:50:27,458 --> 00:50:29,358
Of course it'll fucking last.
700
00:50:29,527 --> 00:50:34,863
I will not do what The Rutles did.
I will not break up.
701
00:50:35,032 --> 00:50:36,796
Where would the world
be without The Rutles?
702
00:50:36,967 --> 00:50:40,597
Where would it be without Dirk
and Nasty and Stig and Bary...
703
00:50:40,771 --> 00:50:45,402
...and all their shenanigans and all their
whoop-de-do and all their normal stuff...
704
00:50:45,576 --> 00:50:48,102
...and, "Here we are.
We're all lads from Liverpool"?
705
00:50:48,279 --> 00:50:51,510
Where would we be without them?
Where would we be?
706
00:50:51,682 --> 00:50:54,515
Could you think of any great
communist rock bands?
707
00:50:54,685 --> 00:50:56,050
No, I don't think so.
708
00:50:56,220 --> 00:50:59,212
There was nothing called
the Village People's Republic, you know.
709
00:50:59,390 --> 00:51:03,293
There was no bands
with two million gay Chinese.
710
00:51:06,063 --> 00:51:09,499
Here was a shining example
of what it could be like.
711
00:51:09,667 --> 00:51:12,398
You could, like, go make music
and make fun of everybody...
712
00:51:12,570 --> 00:51:15,062
...and get away with it, you know?
It was great.
713
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:19,267
Really, the crowning glory,
I guess, to their career...
714
00:51:19,443 --> 00:51:22,140
...is this piece
of marketing extravagance.
715
00:51:22,613 --> 00:51:25,048
What am I getting for this?
716
00:51:27,184 --> 00:51:30,916
They did say that you'd be getting,
you know, you would waive a fee.
717
00:51:31,088 --> 00:51:32,647
- I would waive a fee?
-Yes.
718
00:51:32,823 --> 00:51:34,086
Really? They told you that?
719
00:51:34,258 --> 00:51:37,023
That's what the office said,
that you'll be waiving the fee.
720
00:51:37,194 --> 00:51:38,389
Wrap.
721
00:51:38,562 --> 00:51:41,259
-We should just--
-I can't do anymore. I've gotta go.
722
00:51:41,432 --> 00:51:44,891
Can we just wrap it up? And honestly,
it's not you. It's the whole crew.
723
00:51:45,069 --> 00:51:47,902
It's just too much. They're trampling
over what's left of my--
724
00:51:48,072 --> 00:51:51,599
Honestly, they've killed my dog.
I've gotta-- Finish up, and out you go.
725
00:51:51,775 --> 00:51:54,870
This is fantastic.
Say hello to all the people in England.
726
00:51:55,045 --> 00:51:57,412
I've just-- I gotta go.
727
00:51:57,581 --> 00:52:00,175
-I've got two other interviews to do.
-Just one question.
728
00:52:00,351 --> 00:52:02,080
Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
729
00:52:02,252 --> 00:52:03,447
Bye-bye.
730
00:52:03,787 --> 00:52:07,223
Twenty-three years ago today, right
here in front of The Plaza in New York--
731
00:52:07,391 --> 00:52:10,486
Was where this documentary all began.
732
00:52:10,661 --> 00:52:13,653
-Here was--
-Why are you doing this to me?
733
00:52:13,831 --> 00:52:17,631
I'll tell you why.
Twenty-three years ago, here--
734
00:52:17,801 --> 00:52:22,466
Actually, here.
Twenty-three years ago...
735
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:28,977
...and here and over here, twice,
you met my mother.
736
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,974
Big Wendy?
737
00:52:32,449 --> 00:52:35,851
-Dad.
- I don't believe it.
738
00:52:36,020 --> 00:52:38,614
- I don't believe it.
-I'm real.
739
00:52:38,789 --> 00:52:40,917
Oh, my God.
740
00:55:14,812 --> 00:55:17,611
And what accent are we doing now?
I don't--
741
00:55:21,018 --> 00:55:22,952
It's all right. Stop the filming.
742
00:55:37,501 --> 00:55:40,835
-The songs. Did you like the songs?
-No.
743
00:55:41,672 --> 00:55:43,197
Goddamn it.
744
00:55:47,778 --> 00:55:50,770
So shameless. So shameless.
745
00:55:50,948 --> 00:55:54,350
-It's hard, because I'm not a good--
-Comedian?
746
00:55:54,518 --> 00:55:57,010
Not "comedian."
747
00:55:58,021 --> 00:56:00,217
You're a wonderful comedian.
You're very good.
60840
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