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The Rutles was featured in a "WikiWorld" cartoon: (click image to the right for full size version.)

[edit] 2003

I have the vinyl somewhere in my mess I will expand later. Don't delete please.

I reverted the recent additions as they looked at first glance to be vandalism. So then I reverted my reversion when I realized this was parody. I am unfamiliar with this group and would think that it would be easy for others who were unfamiliar to think that the whole article is suspect, except for the fact that it has been around for over a year, so it is hence probably legit. Strange group. Nanobug 13:05, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I tried to insert in their fictional history this morning, got several paragraphs in, then found out somebody deleted it... You know, there are two sides to their story: real and fiction. The fictional side deserves to be told too!

[edit] Che Stadium

I have a distant recollection that in the film Che Stadium was named after the Cuban revolutionary Che Stadium. Could someone who has the film please check this Billlion 08:18, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Yes, it indeed is. MakeRocketGoNow 18:30, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

That's right. Somebody ruined a perfectly good joke there...

[edit] Ricky Fataar

Is the Ricky Fataar who played Stig the same Ricky Fataar who toured with the Beach Boys in the mid 70s? If so, I think it deserves a mention! --HappyDog 01:55, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Yes, it indeed is. MakeRocketGoNow 18:27, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Incidentally, Stig, the "quiet Rutle," doesn't have a single line in the entire mockumentary. He sings, but he never speaks. --Mr. A. 14:50, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

Should someone add something about the newer film, Rutles 2: Can't Buy me Lunch?

DKK

[edit] length

This article is longer than the one on the beatles...... 66.33.249.200 02:56, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

What? The insect?LessHeard vanU 16:27, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

• No! [[The Beatles!]]

• Gaa! Sorry. Beatles. Anyone find this odd?216.37.227.202 19:07, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Beatles lawsuit ?

I presumptuously deleted this section, which looked bogus, and the non-specific link (bmi.com) seemed like a fool's errand.

In settlement of a lawsuit, some Rutles songs are now listed as being co-authored by Lennon and McCartney. As of early 2006, these six songs from the first Rutles CD (which were not on the original LP release) are credited solely to Neil Innes, according to the official BMI web site: "Baby Let Me Be", "Between Us", "Blue Suede Schubert", "Get Up And Go", "Goose Step Mama", "It's Looking Good". The other 14 songs from the CD (that is, all of the songs from the original LP release) have all had John Lennon and Paul McCartney added to the songwriting credits along with Neil Innes.

However, www.bmi.com/search/ does confirm Lennon/McCartney credits to Rutles titles (which should be included in this article -- Wikipedia is not required to sustain the parody). I can't Google any mention of this lawsuit, but am restoring this with a ^{{{citation needed}}} cos it now seems more plausible to me. More info (with citation) on this lawsuit would certainly be interesting.

(As an aside, now that George is out of the picture, will Apple sue all of the projects he greenlighted? Bad news for Monty Python & Cirque du Soleil[1]) edgarde 17:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Ironic, considering "Get Up & Go" was left off the original LP precisely because it was just TOO close to "Get Back" for legal comfort. MrBronson 17:28, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cheese and Onion

This song don't sound like anything the beatles done. There's a touch of A Day In The Life in there, but the melody sounds like "Isolation" off of plastic ono band. Can anyone elighten me?--Crestville 11:46, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I always thought it was a satirical psychedelic extension of the "Yellow Submarine Sandwich" concept. Can anyone tell me whether the word onions in the film was misspelled "onoins" as a joke based on the idea that Lennon mentioned his lover in lyrics whenever possible at the time? Or was that just something that I thought up myself? Britmax 11:11, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[2] It's spelt "onions". But the song does go "Do i have to spell it out?/C-H-E-E-S-E-A-N-D-O-N-I-O-N-S/Oh no!", so there is an Ono (oh no) reference in there somewhere. The video is amazing. I actually forgot I was watching The Rutles and thought I was watching "Yellow Submarine", though I stand by my original point, it's not as good a song parody as the others. Except for the "end note"!--Crestville 20:04, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

It's supposed to be a pastiche, not a parody. MrBronson 17:29, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inhabitants of Rutland?

I lived in Oakham (Rutland) for some years and never heard the locals described as 'Rutles'. The nearest I ever heard was 'Rutlanders'. I suggest this reference be deleted unless a firm citation can be found

82.152.149.195 21:37, 10 December 2006 (UTC)