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WP_156/ 2008
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Paintings 2 | | Medium: | acrylic on paper | | Size (inches): | 11.7 x 8.3 | | Size (mm): | 297 x 210 | | Catalog #: | WP_0156 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
The Rutles, a living legend that will live long after other living legends have died. (Tagline)
-en.wikiquote.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Cash
The Rutles -
The Rutles was a fictional band jointly created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes that was an affectionate pastiche of The Beatles. The group is best known because of the 1978 mockumentary television film about them, titled All You Need Is Cash (often referred to as just The Rutles). The film was written by Idle, who co-directed it with Gary Weis. It prominently featured 20 songs written by Innes, which he performed with three musician cohorts. A soundtrack album was released in 1978, followed in 1996 by Archaeology loosely spoofing the Beatles' Anthology series.
The Rutles members in All You Need Is Cash were:
* Ron Nasty (styled after John Lennon) -- played by Neil Innes;
* Dirk McQuickly (styled after Paul McCartney) -- played by Eric Idle
* Stig O'Hara (styled after George Harrison) -- played by Ricky Fataar;
* Barry Wom (born Barrington Womble) (styled after Ringo Starr) -- played by John Halsey (the character's truncated surname was a play on how Ringo had changed his real surname of 'Starkey' to 'Starr');
-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rutles
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (TV) 1978
Narrator: In 1966 the Rutles faced the biggest threat to their careers. Nasty in a widely quoted interview had apparently claimed that the Rutles were bigger than God, and was reported to have gone on to say that God had never had a hit record. The story spread like wildfire in America. Many fans burnt their albums, many more burnt their fingers attempting to burn their albums. Album sales skyrocketed, People were buying them just to burn them. But in fact it was all a ghastly mistake. Nasty, talking to a slightly deaf journalist, had claimed only that the Rutles were bigger than Rod. Rod Stewart would not be big for another eight years, and certainly at this stage hadn't had a hit. At a press conference, Nasty apologised to God, Rod and the Press, and the tour went ahead as planned. It would be the Rutles' last.
Narrator: In the midst of all this public bickering, Let it Rot was released as a film, an album, and a lawsuit. In 1970, Dirk sued Stig, Nasty, and Barry; Barry sued Dirk, Nasty, and Stig; Nasty sued Barry, Dirk, and Stig; and Stig sued himself accidentally. It was the beginning of a golden era for lawyers, but for the Rutles, live on a London rooftop, it was the beginning of the end.
Narrator: Mick, why do you think the Rutles broke up?
Mick Jagger: Why do I think they did? Why did the Rutles break up? Women. Just women. Getting in the way. Cherchez la femme, you know.
Narrator: Do you think they'll ever get back together again?
Mick Jagger: I hope not.
Narrator: Stig, meanwhile, had hidden in the background so much that in 1969, a rumor went around that he was dead. He was supposed to have been killed in a flash fire at a waterbed shop and replaced by a plastic and wax replica from Madame Tusseaud's. Several so-called facts helped the emergence of this rumor. One: he never said anything publicly. Even as the quiet one, he'd not said a word since 1966. Two: on the cover of their latest album, Shabby Road, he is wearing no trousers, an Italian way of indicating death. Three: Nasty supposedly sings I buried Stig on I Am The Waitress. In fact, he sings, E burres stigano, which is very bad Spanish for Have you a water buffalo? Four: On the cover of the Sergeant Rutter album, Stig is leaning in the exact position of a dying Yeti, from the Rutland Book of the Dead. Five: If you sing the title of Sergeant Rutter's Only Darts Club Band backwards, it's supposed to sound very like Stig has been dead for ages, honestly. In fact, it sounds uncannily like Dnab Bulc Ylno S'rettur Tnaegres. Palpable nonsense.
Reporter: It must have been a great honor, meeting the queen.
Ron Nasty: Yes, it must have been.
Reporter: What did she ask you?
Barry Wom: She asked us who we were. And then to get out.
Reporter: What did you say?
Dirk McQuickly: [pointing at Ron Nasty] I said I was him.
[on manager Leggy Mountbatten's discovery of the Rutles]
Iris Mountbatten: Well, he told me that he'd been to see these young men in a dark cellar.
Narrator: Yes.
Iris Mountbatten: He was always very interested in young men.
Narrator: Oh, yes.
Iris Mountbatten: Youth clubs, Boy Scouts, that sort of thing.
Narrator: Yes.
Iris Mountbatten: But these, he said, were different.
Narrator: In what way?
Iris Mountbatten: Their hair, and... their presence... and their music...
Narrator: He liked it?
Iris Mountbatten: No, he hated it.
Narrator: What did he like?
Iris Mountbatten: Well, em... the trousers.
Narrator: What about their trousers?
Iris Mountbatten: Well, they were, eh, they were very, em... tight.
[on manager Leggy Mountbatten's emigration to Australia]
Narrator: It was a bombshell for the Rutles. They were shocked... and stunned.
Dirk McQuickly: Well, we're shocked.
Ron Nasty: Yeah, shocked.
Barry Wom: Shocked.
Dirk McQuickly: And stunned.
Ron Nasty: Yeah, stunned.
Barry Wom: Very stunned.
Reporter: Did Arthur Sultan have any words of encouragement for you?
Ron Nasty: No.
Dirk McQuickly: Well, yeah.
Ron Nasty: Well, yeah and no... he said, uh, that it took all sorts to make a world, and that we shouldn't worry unduly about where he'd gone.
Dirk McQuickly: You know, we shouldn't become covered with grief at thoughts of Australia, because -
Ron Nasty: He did say that we could still keep in touch with him by tapping the table.
Dirk McQuickly: And postcards.
Ron Nasty: Yeah.
Barry Wom: Very stunned.
-www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/viewquotes.cgi?action
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The Mick Jagger Interview
QUESTION: Mick, when did you first become aware of the Rutles?
MICK: I suppose when we were living in Edith Grove in London and we were living in squalor and we didn't have any money and there were the Rutles on the TV with girls chasing them and we thought this can't be that difficult, so we thought we'd have a go ourselves.
QUESTION: When did you actually meet the Rutles as individuals?
MICK: The first time I met the Rutles they all came down to see us at Richmond and we had just completed a number and suddenly they were standing there in their black suits, they'd just come off a TV show and they were just sort of checking out the opposition, and then they introduced themselves you know: Dirk, Stig, Nasty, and Barry. They'd heard about us you know cos for a while we were the South's answer to the Rutles.
QUESTION: Were you billed as that?
MICK: We were billed as that, yes. When we got up to Birmingham it'd say "London's answer to the Rutles".
QUESTION: Were they trying to sell you songs at that stage?
MICK: A bit later on they did, yeh. The one for that was Dirk really. He was a real hustler for the songs. Any old slag he'd sell a song to. I remember they came down once and we were trying to rehearse and they said do you wanna song and we said "yeh". We were always really open to songs cos we didn't write our own and the Rutles were always well known for their hit-making potential ability. So they ran around to the corner to the pub to write this song and came back with it and played it to us and it was horrible. So, we never bothered to record it. I used to see them a lot then. The Rutles in London, particularly Nasty. Nasty and I got on well. Barry used to get a bit drunk in nightclubs you know and start punching out the Bigamy Sisters.
QUESTION: Were you at Che Stadium?
MICK: Yeh, I was at Che Stadium with the Rutles. That was the first big outdoor concert by a rock band, the Rutles at Che Stadium, so it was an exciting event. I even rented a helicopter for it. Came in, zooming over the crowd, never seen a crowd as big as that for a rock concert before, ran in and met them before they went on. I think they were nervous, you know, in front of all those people, but the thing I remembered most about is running out in the middle of this field and you couldn't see em and they were just miles away. Is it really the Rutles? It might be somebody else. And there was Barry on this eighteen foot drum riser swaying in the wind. I thought it was going to fall over. We had a good party afterwards though.
QUESTION: Did you hear much?
MICK: No. Nothing at all. You couldn't hear anything.
QUESTION: How long did they play?
MICK: About twenty minutes and that was it, off, helicopter, back to the Warwick Hotel, two birds each.
QUESTION: Did you know leggy well?
MICK: Oh yeh, Leggy, yeh you kidding. Leggy got around a bit you know. I think he was a very big influence on them. He was like one of those old time managers you know, do this, do that, take all the responsibility off your shoulders: you wanna Rolls Royce? I'll buy you one, what color do you want it, what color do you want it painted? And that was alright until he started going off with the bullfighters, and then I think they got a bit disenchanted with him and he didn't know where to go in his life and they wanted to control themselves, you know.
QUESTION: You went to Bognor with them?
MICK: Yeh, the Bognor thing was really funny. "The Bognor Express" they called it in the newspapers, "Aboard the Bognor Express". We all got on the train together and someone was very late, one of the girls, they're always late. Nasty thought we were trying to get on the Rutles mystical bandwagon which wasn't true at all. We were just as eager to find out what was going on at this board-tapping thing at Bognor as anybody. Anyway, we had a bit of board-tapping and nothing much happened, we didn't reach anywhere much and we had to spend the night there in a youth-hostel type place I remember I was with Marianne Faithful and we only had single beds in the hotel so Marianne put the beds together so we could sleep together on the floor and Nasty came in and said "Oh Mick, all you think about is fucking sex, man. We're down here for board-tapping not sex." It was you kind of a funny weekend that, and then of course at the end of it we found out that Leggy had gone off to Australia which kind of put the mockers on.
QUESTION: Did Keith like the Rutles?
MICK: Yeh, I think Keith liked the Rutles songs from the beginning. It influenced him a lot more than it did me. I mean, I never used to like them very much you know, they were to me a bit sort of too "dee dee dee dee dee dee", but Keith liked that.
QUESTION: Why do you think the Rutles broke up?
MICK: Why do I think they did? Why did the Rutles break up? Women. Just women getting in the way. Cherchez la femme you know.
QUESTION: Do you think they'll ever get back together again?
MICK: I hope not.
-www.rutles.org/rmick.html
The Paul Simon Interview
QUESTION: Paul, when did you first hear of the Rutles?
PAUL: I was in England in early 1963 and this friend of mine said had I heard of the Rutles? I said no I hadn't and he said the Rutles were the biggest thing in England and that there were riots wherever they appeared and I remember thinking that it was such a weird name for a group, the Rutles it didn't make any sense to me at all. So the first time I saw them was on the Ed Sullivan show and Ed was saying "Calm down everyone, calm down now we can't hear," and they opened the show and they also closed the show which I think was astute planning on Sullivan's part. Clearly everyone had tuned into that week's show just to see the Rutles.
QUESTION: Did you ever see signs of Rutlemania?
PAUL: Oh yeh, particularly in the north of England. There were music newspapers, I don't remember the names--Mersey Beat, Rutle Beat, there might have been one called Rutlemania, but they were just focused on the activities of the Rutles. Then they put out a fan magazine for Rutles fans that you could subscribe to and get it every month you know--Rutles activities and what new Rutles records were coming out, and at Christmastime they would send out a Rutles record that other people couldn't get, only their fans, and they were usually funny. I think it was mostly Nasty that did that kind of thing.
QUESTION: Tell me about the Sgt. Rutter album?
PAUL: Well of course the main thing that comes to mind with the Sgt. Rutter album is getting stoned and listening to it with earphones, particularly the chord that lasted forever and the backwards tapes.
QUESTION: Did it affect your work at all?
PAUL: No.
QUESTION: When did you first meet the Rutles?
PAUL: I met Nasty two days after I met Dirk. They were together and we were screening some avant-garde film in a hotel in London. He was there and Dirk was carrying his portable tape machine with him and whoever he spoke to he'd put the microphone out in front of them and it was extremely intimidating. I was intimidated anyway to be in the same room with them. Nasty was very quiet, but very fascinating to watch, almost like a cartoon character. Several years later I met Stig and we went to see Rabbi Shankar at the Royal Albert Hall. He was very close with Rabbi Shankar and we had a drink afterwards and talked a while.
QUESTION: Did that influence your music?
PAUL: No.
QUESTION: What do you think their place is in musical history?
PAUL: It's probably easier to place them sociologically as a phenomenon than to judge them at this point musically as to where they'll stand. Certainly they would be like any other enormous popular music phenomenons Sinatra, Presley and then the Rutles. People say who will be the next Rutles you know. I don't think there will be the next Rutles. I think it will be something else you know, some entirely new transformation.
QUESTION: Did the Rutles influence you at all?
PAUL: No.
QUESTION: Did they influence Art Garfunkel?
PAUL: Who?
-www.rutles.org/rpsimon.html
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