The Rutles on Macca Radio

[Brainwashed]

You think we can get the Rutles on Macca Radio sometime in the future?

[chris]

lets hope so. i am going thru a major python phase right now. doesn't eric idle play rutle paul?

those fellows are so silly. kinniggitt...tee hee

[Mark Rink]

Lets hope not The Rutles....please!!

[markfeber@yahoo.com]

gotta go with mr rink on this one. werent they kind of a joke?

[jgkojak]

Yes, absolutely The Rutles...

How 'bouts we let the Beatles themselves rule on it:

George Harrison: "...the Rutles sort of liberated me from the Beatles in a way. It was the only thing I saw of those Beatles television shows they made. It was actually the best, funniest and most scathing. But at the same time, it was done with the most love."

Harrison showed Innes and Idle the Beatles unreleased official documentary The Long and Winding Road, made by Neil Aspinall. (Aspinall's documentary would be resurrected as The Beatles Anthology.)

John Lennon loved the film so much that he refused to return the videotape and soundtrack he was given for approval. He told Innes, however, that ‘Get Up and Go’ was too close to The Beatles' "Get Back" and to be careful not to be sued by Paul McCartney. The song was subsequently omitted from the 1978 vinyl LP soundtrack.

All the group and Apple consented to use of the Beatles' Shea Stadium concert footage, along with other “real” footage cut in with Rutle footage.

Idle claims on the All You Need Is Cash DVD commentary track that Harrison and Starr at one point discussed starting a band with Innes and Idle, based on the Beatles' and Rutles' shared and imaginary histories. This never came to pass.

Let's get the Rutles on MACCARADIO!

[chris]

George was in the movie. I always thought Beatles fans were in on the joke.

[Mark Rink]

apple scruffs thats what they where George did it as a joke just like the song I hope I don't hear the rutles on Macca-Radio because if I do the this site will be a joke

[Mark Rink]

with the rutles

[chris]

Sounds like someone has a candy cane up ytheir butt. Let me send you an egg nog, Mark.

[jgkojak]

Simply removing the candycane from my ass...