Mark Kermode's Cult Film Corner: The Rutles

[@gsf67]

RIP Neil, the world has lost a rare talent.

[@markprior2278]

I feel sorry for people who have never seen the film "All you need is cash" its a must see film. R.I.P. Neil Innes, an underrated musical genius.

[@drdavid1963]

This reminds me why it is the funniest movie ever made for me with its endlessly quotable lines Les Garcons De La PLage, Stig sued himself accidentally, far from home and far from talented. Genius!

[@DasTubemeister]

It’s on KZbin

[@drdavid1963]

@@DasTubemeister Had the DVD for years

[@richardhenson3950]

RIP Neil Innes, a unique talent.

[@pts5217]

I adore this movie. I like many of the songs unironically.

[@emilycathcart7387]

This is the best parody I have ever seen in my life; a VERY underrated film!

[@colinmacmillan2944]

And the Rutles music - it's good, really, really good.

[@andchat6241]

@@colinmacmillan2944 yes definitely the musical parodies/homages are perfect.

[@eldiablo8580]

So sad to hear of the passing of Neil Innes. R.I.P. He will be sorely missed 😢

[@dabreu]

I love it so much! George Harrison once said the Beatles Spirit landed in Monty Python after the Beatles split and that is why he decided to be close to them. And...he was right. Because the Rutles is amazing.

[@KeepinBuzzy]

The guitar parts and the vocals of Paul were performed in the studio for The Rutles by the late great Ollie Halsall who Neil often used on his projects . Ollie and John Halsey ( Ringo ) played together in Timebox who became Patto . Patto's Hold Your Fire shows Ollie at his unique best and is one of the most astonishing guitar albums of any era .

[@Fontsman]

Ollie was way ahead of his time.

[@johnbarry1965]

i first saw The Rutles in1978 and then read "Shout" so i knew The Beatles story first by The Rutles, great Film!!!!!!

[@evanorsomething909]

This video may be a decade old but HELL this is funny

[@Grithron2]

I think it does help to be infinitely familiar with the Beatles and their associates. A bit of Beatle expertise helps in terms of fully getting the meaning behind things like....A Thousand Feet Of Film, the "hello? can you hear us?", the fact they go to Bognor of all places, the tea and biscuits interview, Decline talking to the mirror and/or himself, the visual gags in the Rutles film clips, "they're gonna be here talking about their trousers", and indeed the what-if interviews ("two hairdressers"/"what Ron and I will do..."), the glimpse of Nasty in a wheelchair, or the fact that Dirk eventually joins everyone else in calling `Ron' by his surname.

[@missgreeneyes2650]

The best film ever made. Ever. I saw the Pythons live at the Bristol Hoppodrome in 1972?/3 There was Neil Innes.. Fab.... He was, without doubt, a brilliantly talented musician and fellow human being. Crikey, did he make me laugh. RIP, Neil.

[@SuperSTARWARS4ever]

Wow! love this Thanks for posting this great information love "The Rutles"

[@timothyw98]

that bit of silence was like something python would do.

[@jamstonjulian6947]

Intermission

[@sourcreampudding]

They really were bigger than Rod. Time has proved Nasty right.

[@JimsEquipmentShed]

I'm absolutely amazed that I just found out about them like a month ago, how did this happen? What bloody rock have I been under?

[@twiggyb01]

im shocked; shocked and stunned

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Don't think i have ever heard Mark Kermode SO excited during a review

[@mistercarlton]

The Rutles starred at Gorilla in Manchester earlier this year and I was there.WOW.

[@martinradcliffe4798]

Favourite line- "Britain had lost some of the finest merchant banking brains of a generation. Fortunately that's not very serious". Funny and true.

[@johnspooner1403]

He's absolutely correct about "Spinal Tap." I saw it on initial release, with my girl friend. I was three years out of a one-year stint touring with a club band, she had no show biz experience. I thought the movie brilliant, a satirical gem, she thought it was shite.

[@tonybates7870]

How anyone could think that 'This Is Spinal Tap' is 'shite' is beyond me. My mate knows fuck all about being in a band, he doesn't play an instrument yet he thought it was incredible and understood it as well as anyone else I know, some of which, like me, HAVE been in bands. People that 'get' Spinal Tap do so because they're intelligent, not because they've been in a band.

[@piggyroo100]

I think it was the trousers

[@patrick88705]

A Legend in their own Lunchtime. ..

[@InParticularNobody]

NO FIXED HAIRSTYLE WAS STIG O'HARA! You had him on the ropes, Radcliffe!

[@jemima216]

Just about to comment that. Kermode isn't all seeing, all knowing.

[@Grithron2]

@@jemima216 Often I've heard Americans pronounce his surname with the stress on the second syllable, not the first - or is that because he's so often found to be full of shit?

[@grahamturner97]

I remember Rutland Weekend Television !

[@nellgwenn]

I remember watching this when it was first aired as an episode of SNL.

[@Kreln1221]

You forgot to mention that Neil Innes played keys with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band in The Beatles TV movie, The Magical Mystery Tour, on the tune, Death Cab For Cutie, from which the band of that name got its name.

[@MrSirMrSirMr]

Death Cab For Cutie didn't exist when this was broadcast in the mid-90s.

[@Kreln1221]

@@MrSirMrSirMr The band Death Cab For Cutie named themselves after the song performed by the Bonzos in The Magical Mystery Tour, which was originally broadcast back in the 70's, not the 90's...

[@MrSirMrSirMr]

@@Kreln1221 You misunderstand me - the radio interview you're listening to in this KZbin clip was broadcast in the mid-1990s; the band Death Cab For Cutie wouldn't have been known internationally at this point (it probably wasn't even formed for another couple of years). This is why Death Cab For Cutie wasn't mentioned in this clip. Side note: Magical Mystery Tour was broadcast in 1967, not the 70s.

[@debradunn109]

Love this movie and their tight trousers lol

[@ketchup5344]

Some of us who know, speak fluent Rutle to each other to this day. Be very stunned.

[@MarkSalford]

.... and shocked

[@robertsnyder7014]

The Rutles are as great as the Beatles ! When I first saw the movie " I said what's this it is the Beatles ? I was knocked out by this movie but most of all their music !

[@andreaprodan5616]

The silence half way is pure 'Contractual Obligation Album'

[@RonGallagher]

Just the sort of thing some people would say.

[@oldskoolfool141]

MK was mistaken, Dick Jaws the publisher was the one who was of no fixed ability, Stig was - as MR rightly pointed out - of no fixed hairstyle

[@alanr4447a]

To say nothing of how Ron Decline kept all the proceeds from Stig's charity show "Concert for Balder Dash".

[@jamesduclos2545]

Neil Innes, RIP …….

[@drdavid1963]

Mark Kermode is obviously as big a Rutles obsessive as I am. He cites a couple of great gags like Che Stadium and Stig sued himself accidentally but another great gag he didn't mention was 'The Rutles were bigger than God' controversy. The story spread like wildfire in America where many people burned their albums, many people burned their fingers attempting to burn their albums. Album sales skyrocketed. People were buying them JUST to burn them.

[@davidberry8808]

Apparently Noel Gallagher has pay royalties to Neil Innes for Oasis's 'whatever' which was judged to have copied/plagiarised Innes's 'how sweet to be an idiot' .

[@Grithron2]

Which is why Innes uses it again at the start of the Rutles Shangri-La.

[@marcbolan1818]

It is criminal that SonyATV claimed copyright and bullied Neil into accepting their pathetic deal. The Rutles’ songs are not copies of Lennon/McCartney’s songs.

[@dadoctah]

Some of them are. John Lennon himself suggested that "Get Up And Go" was close enough to "Get Back" that they'd get into trouble over it, and as a result it was omitted from the original vinyl LP.

[@marcbolan1818]

dadoctah Innes and legal counsel hired musicologists to compare all the 14 Rutles’ songs and none of them were deemed too close to impact copyright. In the end, Innes folded and accepted to share 15% in publishing that he should have owned 100%. SonyATV could drag out the battle and also tie up other royalties. Innes capitulated in the end just to open up cash flow. Get Up and Go was released on the reissue.

[@NikonUser5]

@@dadoctah Thanks for clarifying that. I had often wondered why some songs weren't on the original LP. It could have been worse though. Neil Innes could have sued himself by mistake. 😉

[@thekitowl]

@@marcbolan1818 Neil said that when his Publishers realised they might win but not get cost’s they capitulated , leaving him high & dry. John & George made some suggestions of changes when Neil’s songs got too close to the originals as well.

[@Grithron2]

@@thekitowl Get Up And Go gets all the attention - but also A Girl Like You is a bit "close" to If I Fell. And either Lennon or Harrison pointed that one out.

[@RubberMammy]

Way ahead of its time

[@jeffj266]

My PBS station aired the European version, with all the swears and different scenes.

[@mochynddu723]

Mark 'Breathless' Kermode, there.

[@localbod]

Mark Kermode doesn't know his shit. It was Stig O'hara of no fixed haircut. All You Need Is Cash - it is a fucking classic!

[@theonlyantony]

And the Gallaghers can’t touch their talent!

[@burnsybob70]

Very true. It's obvious Liam has always tried model himself on Ron Nasty

[@magna4100]

Keep off the tea...as for the biscuits!

[@paulcash8160]

Kermode talks faster than I can listen

[@bernardjharmsen304]

Playback at 0.5x speed in youtube - tap on the 3 dots menu. Still doesn't much sense; he's imbibed sugar without the tea and biscuits, I reckon

[@justmadeit2]

Did anyone ever write a poem about Mark Kermode? I did! Its amateur stuff, to see it just type in search bar above the following title....My ode to Kermode

[@johnherdman8241]

Heard a story a while back that the Beatles' music publishing company, against the will of the Beatles, sued Innes as the music was too close to the Beatles (yes, I know, surely that's the point). Lennon and McCartney even appeared in court on Innes' behalf, but Innes lost, and for a long while the writing credits on the soundtrack album were forced to be "Lennon/McCartney/Innes". So a lot of the royalty income from the music ended up in the hands of the Beatles music publishers.

[@thekitowl]

John & George helped Neil make sure the Ruttles songs weren’t too close the originals, yet Neil still lost the case. Apparently EMI had a huge fund for fighting copyright cases & fearing they might win but not get costs, Neils publishers pulled out . EMI even accused Neil of copying The Beatles Twist & Shout, which the Beatles didn’t write . A Musicologist ( who Neil paid ) also proved there was no copyright infringement, but with no backing Neil didn’t stand a chance.

[@johnenglish929]

...and as a result, Lennon and McCartney get a songwriting credit for Cheese and Onion !

[@lordtufty]

I laughed a load at Spinal Tap even if I don't play an instrument, particularly like rock, and have never been in a band

[@ilgilg9394]

A big shout out to leggy mountbatten😂

[@ericktorres1990]

am i in a PARALLEL UNIVERSE???

[@mr.evasion]

Ah.. the Redditch Hells Angels.... geddit!?!?

[@weavehole]

Bizarre, I can remember this from when it was first broadcast. Every time since then that Ive seen a clip or heard someone mentioning The Rutles I think of these guys comparing it to Spinal Tap. ... Still not got round to watching the actual film though.

[@phillieg26]

weavehole The Rutles was the first ‘Mockumentary’. It’s very clever. If you’re a Beatles fan you really should watch it.

[@KB4QAA]

@@phillieg26 No. Try Woody Allen's "Take the Money and Run", 1969.

[@moosey62]

2nd album took even less, not longer, and it was no fixed hairstyle

[@tonybates7870]

No, it's "their first album took 20 minutes to record, the second even longer". It's only funny that way round.

[@JoshuaCraigStrain]

Lorne Michaels didn't go on to do SNL - It started around 75/76 . I'm sure it was a just a mistake , but ya know .

[@nervo6321]

Mr Kermode is so wrong about the no fixed hairstyle quote...Radcliffe was correct....

[@MrCrassuswild]

fantastic silence lol

[@Grithron2]

Yeah, in place of Cheese And Onions we got a clip from either John Cage's 4'33 or side two of Life With The Lions. (I say that 'cause it can't be the 2-disc promo copy of the Wedding Album...because those two mysterious sides apparently contained a low-volume tone which alters but only by microtones...and it's just a coincidence if it sounds like the motor on your record player)

[@ertont2849]

Confused the bloke in The Rutles looks like the bloke in the Monty Python is it the same man

[@ertont2849]

@rod dog ha ha it is thanks

[@thetoykeet]

I tried tea but did not like it. Nutmeg was better.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Cheers! I mean the pods. (No way!)

[@paulsenkans3401]

Forget tea. I tried green tea , and ended in a psychiatric unit from 1981 until 1995. Then left hospital with a new pair of slippers and a night gown, , went to University to do a degree and PhD, and the rest is history. I owe it all to green tea, not tea…… or biscuits!

[@Cjnw]

The official spice of Christmas

[@tonybates7870]

Tea did fuck all to me. Acid, however, put me in another world . . .

[@ejbarkermusic]

Mark's wrong, ha

[@75vancleave]

How come ive never heard of the ruttles?