1 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,300 # Workin' up a fever in a one-horse town 2 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:16,000 # Was a jockey by the name of Joe 3 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:20,100 # He didn't have a lot of what you might call luck 4 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,900 # But he had a lot of get up n' go 5 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,800 # Get up n' go Get up n' go 6 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,000 # Get up n' go back home 7 00:00:31,100 --> 00:00:35,200 The Rutles story is a legend. A living legend, 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,800 A legend that will live long after lots of other living legends have died. 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,900 Tonight we are extremely proud to present the semi-legendary life story of the prefab four: 10 00:00:43,916 --> 00:00:47,146 Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry who made the sixties what they are today. The fabulous Rutles 11 00:00:58,991 --> 00:01:02,007 # Tall in the saddle in a one-horse town 12 00:01:02,386 --> 00:01:05,402 # Joey knew someday he'd hit the road 13 00:01:06,495 --> 00:01:10,183 # He traded with a dealer for a pick-up truck 14 00:01:10,394 --> 00:01:13,200 # And he went looking for a medium load 15 00:01:14,587 --> 00:01:17,897 # Get up n' go Get up n' go 16 00:01:18,402 --> 00:01:20,788 # Get up n' go back home 17 00:01:22,385 --> 00:01:25,611 # Get up n' go Get up n' go 18 00:01:26,242 --> 00:01:29,804 # Get up n' go back home 19 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:35,000 From these streets, very close to the Cavern Rutland 20 00:01:35,100 --> 00:01:40,200 came the fabulous "Rutland sound", created by the prefab four: 21 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:43,400 Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry 22 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:47,400 Who created a musical legend, that will last a lunchtime 23 00:01:47,500 --> 00:01:53,600 They were discovered by their manager 'Leggy Mountbatten' in a lunchtime disco very close to these streets 24 00:01:53,700 --> 00:01:58,500 Their first album was made in 20 minutes, the second took even longer 25 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:04,000 Tonight we examine the legend of The Rutles. We look at their lives, their loves, their music 26 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:07,000 We examine some of the problems that made them what they are today 27 00:02:07,100 --> 00:02:09,500 And we shall also be asking some of the people who worked with them 28 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,000 If they were really the sort of lovable people they were made out to be 29 00:02:13,100 --> 00:02:17,700 We shall be asking many people who knew them what they were really like 30 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:09,900 Yes tonight we examine the entire legend of The Rutles 31 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:15,200 But where did the story start? 32 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:18,100 The answer is: right here! 33 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,200 For on this very spot 34 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:25,200 Ron Nasty and Dirk McQuickly first bumped into each other 35 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:30,200 At this precise point, just a few feet back here 36 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,600 Ron Nasty invited Dirk to help him stand up 37 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:40,400 Dirk, merely an amateur drinker, agreed. And here, well a few feet back there 38 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:43,200 a musical legend was created. 39 00:03:43,300 --> 00:03:48,900 They were soon joined by their guitarist, Stig O'Hara, a school-leaver of no fixed hairstyle 40 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:55,600 But it would not be for another two years, before they found their drummer, Barrington Womble, hiding in the van 41 00:03:55,700 --> 00:04:01,200 When they did they persuaded him to change his name, to save time, and his haircut, to save Brylcreem 42 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:03,600 He became simply Barry Wom 43 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:09,800 Goose-steppin' Mama 44 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:12,700 # Undercover charge 45 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:14,300 # Goose-step Mama 46 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,300 # Taken by an' large 47 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,700 # While you tinker with some tailor 48 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,100 # Someone sold yer to a sailor 49 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,200 # Goose-step Mama, oh yeah! 50 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:26,400 # Goose-step Mama 51 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,300 # Goose-step Mama 52 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,300 # Boogie all night long 53 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:32,800 # Goose-step Mama 54 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:35,900 # You can do no wrong 55 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,400 # You know how to reassemble 56 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:40,600 # Clumsy hands and knees that tremble 57 00:04:40,700 --> 00:04:43,000 # Goose-step Mama, oh yeah! 58 00:04:43,100 --> 00:04:45,600 # Goose-step Mama 59 00:04:45,700 --> 00:04:51,900 In October 1961 Leggy Mountbatten, a retail chemist from Bolton, entered their lives 60 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,200 Leggy had lost a leg in the RAF in the closing over’s of WW2 61 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:59,200 and had been hopping around Liverpool ever since 62 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:03,400 As a child, Leggy's mother never allowed him to play with the other little boys 63 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:06,800 His father was so snobby, he wore swimming trunks in the bath 64 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:09,300 to stop him looking down on the unemployed 65 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,400 But it was here, in Liverpool th... 66 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:18,200 But it was in Liverpool, that we spoke with Leggy's mother Mrs. Iris Mountbatten 67 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:24,000 Well he told me that he'd been to see these young men in a dark cellar 68 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:25,800 Yes 69 00:05:25,900 --> 00:05:28,600 He was always very interested in young men 70 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:29,400 Oh, yes 71 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:32,200 Youth clubs, Boy Scouts, that sort of thing 72 00:05:32,300 --> 00:05:33,900 Yes 73 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,000 But...these he said were different 74 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:38,600 In what way? 75 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:43,400 Well...their hair and... their presence 76 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,500 and their music 77 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:47,800 He liked it? 78 00:05:47,900 --> 00:05:49,100 No, he hated it 79 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,200 Well what did he like? 80 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:53,700 Well 81 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,600 The trousers 82 00:05:58,300 --> 00:05:59,800 What about their trousers? 83 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:02,400 Well...they were 84 00:06:02,500 --> 00:06:06,000 They were very...tight 85 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:07,700 Tight? 86 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,700 - Yes, you could see quite clearly - Oh I see 87 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:12,400 Everything 88 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:15,100 Outlines...clear as day 89 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,000 Yes, yes thank you yes So...tight trousers and 90 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:20,700 - Nothing left to the imagination - Yes, thank you 91 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:26,900 I am standing in the world's naughtiest street, the notorious Reeperbahn, Hamburg 92 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,900 For four hungry working class lads 93 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,800 There are worse places than prison 94 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:35,700 And the Rat Keller, Hamburg is one of these 95 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:37,900 This is where they found themselves 96 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 Far from home and far from talented 97 00:06:41,100 --> 00:06:44,500 Inside here is where they actually played 98 00:06:44,700 --> 00:06:47,300 Come with me now inside, or... 99 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:51,800 As the Germans say, "mit mirer gekommen inside" 100 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,700 In those early days, there was a fifth Rutle - Leppo 101 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:59,800 A friend of Nasty’s from art college 102 00:06:59,900 --> 00:07:02,600 Who mainly used to stand at the back, he couldn't play the guitar 103 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:08,000 But he knew how to have a good time, and in Hamburg that was more important 104 00:07:10,300 --> 00:07:16,600 I am standing in the original Rat Keller, and indeed these are some of the original rats 105 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:25,100 It was to this small back room that Dirk, Stig, Nasty, Barry and Leppo 106 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:32,500 came to relax when they weren't upstairs entertaining the other rats dining in the other Rat Keller 107 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:39,400 Here they had bed & breakfast. there's the bed, the breakfast of course long since gone 108 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:45,500 Rodently chewed, mouse masticated, in a word, eaten by rats 109 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:51,100 Incidentally, Rat Keller means literally, in German, cellar of rats 110 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,000 That's not seller of rats, a seller of rats, a person 111 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:59,600 Who sells rats for a living to another man as it were, of course not 112 00:07:59,700 --> 00:08:02,700 It means a cellar full of rats 113 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:07,400 Indeed you might say, cellar full of Ratles 114 00:08:08,500 --> 00:08:14,900 In October 19...ah...err...Hello! Oh dear, there's a rat up my leg 115 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:21,000 In October 1961 Leggy was busy hopping round London, trying to sell their tapes 116 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:26,400 Well, one day this rather odd chap hopped into the office...he'd... 117 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:32,200 He'd been to see virtually every-one in the business, and been shown the door 118 00:08:32,300 --> 00:08:36,500 He asked to see my door, but I...I wouldn't show it to him 119 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:41,400 Instead he showed me the photographs, and the tapes of The Rutles 120 00:08:42,100 --> 00:08:46,100 They were pretty rough... but they had something 121 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:47,700 What was it? 122 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:49,400 I think it was the trousers 123 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:51,800 Well I liked the trousers right away 124 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:58,100 Well I mean I've been in the garment trade myself and I knew a thing or two about inside legs and these were winners 125 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:02,000 Dick Jaws, an unemployed music publisher of no fixed ability 126 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:04,300 signed them up for the rest of their lives 127 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:05,400 Lucky really 128 00:09:05,500 --> 00:09:08,300 # Number One, Number One 129 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,700 # You're my Number One 130 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:15,000 # You're my second-to-none 131 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:18,200 # Number One, Number One 132 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:21,600 Leggy Mountbatten in his autobiography "A Cellar Full Of Goys" 133 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:23,800 of the excitement of those early days 134 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:30,400 When they rode the go-kart to fame and took the ferry across the Mersey to a land of riches, wealth and heartache 135 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:39,900 Leggy put them into suits, he put them into the recording studio and he put them into the newspapers 136 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:46,400 For The Rutles success was only a drumbeat away 137 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,800 # I'm looking at you 138 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,300 # You're looking at me 139 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:55,500 # Between us, it's oh, so easy to see 140 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,300 # We were made for each other, girl 141 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,500 # We were made for each other 142 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:04,900 # Between us 143 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,800 # Love has begun 144 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:09,200 # Between us 145 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:10,900 # Two hearts are one 146 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,300 # Between us 147 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:16,700 # Nothing can come between us 148 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,600 # Whatever we do 149 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:23,700 # Whenever we kiss 150 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,400 # Between you and me, it's not hit n' miss 151 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:31,200 # We were made for each other, girl 152 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,200 # We were made for each other 153 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:36,400 # Between us 154 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:38,200 # Love has begun 155 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:39,600 # Between us 156 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:43,700 They chased me, and they caught me, and they beat me up 157 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:45,300 Who did? 158 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,200 Those little girls 159 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,900 One of them screamed in my ear 160 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,500 # Between us 161 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,600 # Nothing can come 162 00:10:55,700 --> 00:10:59,000 # Nothing can come between us 163 00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:08,100 I asked Mick Jagger, when he first became aware of The Rutles 164 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:14,300 We we living in, you know, squalor and we didn't have any money 165 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,600 And there were the Rutles on the TV with girls chasing them, we thought... 166 00:11:18,700 --> 00:11:22,600 "This can't be that difficult", so we thought we'd have a go ourselves 167 00:11:22,700 --> 00:11:24,800 What's your ambition? 168 00:11:24,900 --> 00:11:26,300 To be a hairdresser 169 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,100 Or Two. I'd like to be two hairdressers 170 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:34,400 The first time I met The Rutles, they came down to see us at Richmond and they... 171 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:38,900 And we had just completed a number and all of a sudden they were standing there 172 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:44,300 In their black suits, they had just come off a TV show 173 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:48,700 And they were just standing there... sort of...checking us out, the opposition 174 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:50,300 And then they introduced themselves 175 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,400 Dirk, Stig, Nasty, Barry. 176 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:55,900 I'd like to own a squadron of tanks 177 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,800 They were very nice, you know 178 00:11:57,900 --> 00:12:00,400 because they'd heard about us... 179 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:04,500 Because we were the south's answer to The Rutles, you know, at that time 180 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:10,200 What Ron and I will do is probably to write some songs, you know, and sell them to people 181 00:12:10,300 --> 00:12:14,800 We tried to write some for the Rolling Stones and they're probably going to buy them 182 00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:18,700 The one for that was Dirk. He was a real hustler for the songs I think 183 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:25,100 Always wanting to sell a song, you know, for any old slag he'd sell a song to 184 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,600 And they came down, they came down, and we were trying to rehearse and they said: "Do you want a song?" 185 00:12:29,700 --> 00:12:34,000 And we said: "Yeah we're always really open for songs" because we didn't write our own 186 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:39,300 And of course The Rutles were always well known for their hit-making potential...ability 187 00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:45,000 And so, they ran round the corner to the pub, to write this song, and came back with it 188 00:12:45,100 --> 00:12:47,200 And played it to us, and... 189 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:48,900 it was horrible 190 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,500 So we never bothered to record it 191 00:12:55,900 --> 00:13:01,200 It was a busy week for the prefab four, as the fever of Rutlemania rolls over England 192 00:13:01,300 --> 00:13:04,000 On Tuesday Rutlemania came to London 193 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:09,100 As Rutles fans jammed Piccadilly Circus and brought London's traffic to a standstill 194 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,500 Nobody's seen anything quite like this since the war 195 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,700 Look out girls! Here come The Rutles! 196 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:22,100 And for some, the event is clearly too much! Oh well, she's safe in the arms of the law 197 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,200 First to arrive is Rutle fan Princess Margaret 198 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:30,600 Escorted by her husband Lord Snowdon Tony Armstrong Jones 199 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:36,400 Her Majesty herself was there to greet the Rutles on this royal glittering occasion 200 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:40,400 The Annual Royal Command Performance 201 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:42,600 Thank you very much thank you 202 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:48,200 And now we'd like to do a number dedicated to a very special lady in the audience tonight 203 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:50,700 Barry's mum 204 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:55,000 And now, without anymore ado here's your own, your very own 205 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:57,800 Dirk McQuickly! 206 00:13:58,100 --> 00:14:02,200 # Shoot me down in flames if I should tell a lie 207 00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:06,200 # Cross my heart I promise that it's true 208 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,400 # I've been in love so many times before 209 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:14,000 # but never with a girl like you 210 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,400 # With a girl like you 211 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,400 # to hold and be beside 212 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,600 # With a girl like you 213 00:14:26,300 --> 00:14:31,500 # to fill my heart with pride and joy 214 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,200 # With a girl like you 215 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:42,200 # I know where I belong 216 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,500 # With a girl like you 217 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:51,300 # I know I can be strong, you know 218 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,800 # I won't bring you any pain 219 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,600 # I won't run around again 220 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:03,300 # There'll be nothing to explain 221 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,400 # with a girl like you 222 00:15:11,900 --> 00:15:14,100 The Queen too is a Rutle fan 223 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:19,900 And she enjoyed the performance so much that on Wednesday they went back to her place to receive MBE's 224 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,200 Well done lads! England's proud of you! 225 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:26,900 - It must have been a great honour meeting the Queen - Yeah, it must have been 226 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,700 - What did she ask you? - She asked us who we were 227 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:31,600 What did you say? 228 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:32,900 I said I was him 229 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,100 I felt more like him than me 230 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,600 - Do you feel better after seeing the Queen? - No, you feel better after seeing the doctor 231 00:15:39,700 --> 00:15:41,500 - Not my doctor you don't - Not your doctor, no 232 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,100 - What are you going to do now? - Back to your place! 233 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,000 But all rest an no play makes Rutles dull boys 234 00:15:48,100 --> 00:15:53,600 On Thursday they flew to America, to find out if they were more than nine day wonders 235 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:57,300 They needn't have worried America loves The Rutles too 236 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:58,700 In many cases, even more 237 00:15:59,001 --> 00:16:00,501 It's Rutles day in Flushing... 238 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:05,200 He's good this guy is, called Murray "The K" 239 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:09,400 Soft in the head sounds like 240 00:16:09,500 --> 00:16:13,500 Come on! Flushing Animals! What do you want to know? What do you want to hear? 241 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:18,800 If you call me up at 555-21-60 and say you wanna hear anything but the Rutles 242 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:21,000 I'm gonna come lookin' for ya! 243 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:26,200 I mean it! Because it's Rutles day, they're going to be here tomorrow, talking about their trousers 244 00:16:26,300 --> 00:16:29,600 It's a big big day here in Flushing! 245 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:32,600 Lets give 'em a big round of applause! I know I can't hear you! 246 00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:37,100 But I know I can pick up what you're saying baby! 247 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,400 The scene is here in Flushing! 248 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:42,400 The whole world's eyes are on Flushing! 249 00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:45,500 Because the prefab four are coming to town tomorrow... 250 00:16:45,801 --> 00:16:48,501 To talk about their trousers 251 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:51,100 I don't know about this, do you? - No 252 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,200 And then it's back to the hotel for some fun and games! 253 00:16:56,300 --> 00:17:01,000 This is tea, you know we drink it. We put the water in the tea, there's the tea, there. 254 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:05,500 - And we pour it into the pot - One for Uncle Mamy and one for Auntie Betty 255 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:12,500 But it's all in a day's work for England's ambassadors of musical fun, The Rutles 256 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:16,800 That's show business 257 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:26,600 I'm actually standing outside the actual hotel, in which The Rutles actually stayed in 1964 258 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:31,900 Actually in this room, here. And it was actually inside this actual room 259 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,000 That I actually spoke with the actual Paul Simon 260 00:17:35,100 --> 00:17:38,100 Well the show where I remember Ed Sullivan saying that 261 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:43,900 "Calm down now, every-one calm down" you know, "We can't hear" or some...some kind of silly warning you know 262 00:17:44,500 --> 00:17:48,100 They opened the show, I think, and they also closed the show 263 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:52,300 Which I thought was a...astute planning on Sullivan’s part 264 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:58,400 Because it would've made you very angry if you had to sit through the whole show to wait to see The Rutles you know 265 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:01,800 So clearly every-one had tuned into that week's show, just to see The Rutles 266 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:05,800 Now yesterday and today our theatre has been jammed with newspapermen and hundreds of photographers from all over the nation 267 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:09,600 And these veterans agreed with me, that the city never has witnessed the excitement stirred 268 00:18:09,700 --> 00:18:13,000 By these youngsters from Liverpool, who call themselves The Rutles 269 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:18,000 Now tonight you're gonna twice be entertained by them, right now and again in the second half of our show 270 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,600 Ladies and gentlemen The Rutles! 271 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,500 # I'm not the kind of guy who likes to play 272 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:34,600 # Big Brother 273 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:38,900 # But I've just seen your date outside, he's with 274 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,500 # Another 275 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,100 # I saw you both come in 276 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,600 # And clearly, you're not meant for him, so 277 00:18:46,700 --> 00:18:50,000 # Please, please, hold my hand 278 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,000 # Hold my hand, yeah, yeah 279 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,200 # Hold my hand, yeah, yeah 280 00:18:57,300 --> 00:19:01,000 # Hold my hand and I'll see you home 281 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:08,400 # I want to tell you I'm in love with you 282 00:19:08,500 --> 00:19:10,000 # Completely 283 00:19:10,100 --> 00:19:14,000 # I'd like to take you far away from here 284 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,200 # Discreetly 285 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:18,900 # Our love was meant to be 286 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:22,200 # And darling, it's a certainty, oh 287 00:19:22,300 --> 00:19:25,600 # Please, please, hold my hand 288 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,800 # Hold my hand, yeah, yeah 289 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,900 # Hold my hand, yeah, yeah 290 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,700 # Hold my hand and I'll see you home 291 00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:41,500 # Hold my hand, yeah, yeah 292 00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:44,600 # Hold my hand, yeah, yeah 293 00:19:44,700 --> 00:19:48,400 # Hold my hand and I'll see you home 294 00:19:52,900 --> 00:19:56,800 The Rutles music meanwhile had been attracting respectable critical attention 295 00:19:56,900 --> 00:20:00,500 'The London Times' called it "The best since Schubert" 296 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:06,800 Sir Brian Morrison has been Regis professor of music at the University of Oxford for the past thirty years 297 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:11,400 We asked him just how good, musically, were The Rutles 298 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:17,300 Stanley J. Krammerhead III Jnr is an occasional visiting 299 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:21,900 professor of Applied Narcotics at the University of Please-Yourself, California 300 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,900 He is also a keen historian of pop music 301 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,200 We asked him just how good, musically, were The Rutles 302 00:20:29,300 --> 00:20:33,600 Listen, look it's very simply, musicological and ethically 303 00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:39,100 The Rutles were essentially empirical maise-longues so they rhythmically radical 304 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:43,200 Yet verbally passé and temporarily transcended lyrical content 305 00:20:43,300 --> 00:20:49,400 Welded with historically innovative melodically material, transposed and transmogrified 306 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:53,600 By the angst of the Rutland ethic experience, which elevated them 307 00:20:53,700 --> 00:20:59,200 From essentially alpha exponents of in essence merely beta potential harmonic material 308 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:05,400 Into the prime cultural exponents of Aeolian codensic cosmic stanza form 309 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,600 But he didn't really tell us either 310 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:16,000 So we went to New Orleans, to find out just how expensive it is to make these documentaries 311 00:21:18,300 --> 00:21:22,500 I'm standing by the banks of the Mississippi. The First Na... 312 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:30,200 I'm standing by the banks of the Mississippi in Louisiana, the cradle of the blues 313 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,200 That's black music sung mainly by whites 314 00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:38,700 And we're here to find out the black origins of Rutle music 315 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,300 I spoke with Blind Lemon Pie. 316 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:47,400 Well everything I learned, I learned from The Rutles 317 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:49,000 From The Rutles, really? 318 00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:51,900 Yes, everything 319 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,600 But surely you were singing the blues back in the early thirties 320 00:21:55,700 --> 00:21:58,900 No, I was working on the railroad 321 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,100 I worked on the railroad for thirty years or more 322 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:08,800 Until I heard The Rutles. and I decided, that that's my type of music 323 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:15,300 I'm gonna leave the railroad, and I became a musician and I've been starving ever since 324 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:20,000 - So where did Rutle music originate? - Next door 325 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:23,400 - Next door? - Next door to Ruttling Orange Peel 326 00:22:23,500 --> 00:22:30,700 Yes sir, I originated The Rutles. They got it all from me. Every single bit of it 327 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,900 - Well how do you mean? - Well sir, they come here 328 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:39,300 And they took everything I ever written. Those four guys from Liverpool came here 329 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,000 - He's lyin'! - I ain't lyin'! 330 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:44,000 - He's always lyin'! - I ain't lyin'! I ain't lyin'! 331 00:22:44,100 --> 00:22:49,700 Every time there's a documentary on white music around here, he claims he started it all 332 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:50,900 I did, I did, I did! 333 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,800 Last week he claimed he started The Everly Brothers 334 00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:59,400 - Frank Sinatra and Laurence Wells! - I did, I did! - He's always lyin'! 335 00:23:01,300 --> 00:23:06,300 Well we seem to be rather wasting our time here in New Orleans 336 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,500 Despite the expense 337 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,200 Still it's pretty isn't it? 338 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:14,000 Well from New Orleans back to Liverpool 339 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:17,800 Some people say you've been staying away from Liverpool now you're famous 340 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:20,800 No we haven't been staying away, as much as not coming here 341 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:23,200 Some people say it's six months since you came back here 342 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:26,500 - Well that's the sort of thing some people would say - Nevertheless it has been six months 343 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,100 Now you're saying it...why don't you ask me where I've been? 344 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,000 - Where have you been? - I'm not telling you 345 00:23:31,100 --> 00:23:33,800 Nasty had written and published a bestselling book: 346 00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:35,200 "Out Of Me Head" 347 00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:38,000 Only one media remained unconquered 348 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:39,500 The cinema 349 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,500 In 1965 "A Hard Day's Rut" changed all that 350 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:44,900 # I feel good 351 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:46,700 # I feel bad 352 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:48,400 # I feel happy 353 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:49,800 # I feel sad 354 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,700 # Am I in love? 355 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,800 # I must be in love 356 00:23:56,500 --> 00:23:58,000 # I feel rich 357 00:23:58,200 --> 00:23:59,600 # I feel poor 358 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:01,400 # I'm in doubt 359 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,000 # I feel sure 360 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,800 # Am I in love? 361 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:08,800 # I must be in love 362 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:16,200 # Any time of the day I can see 363 00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:21,200 # Her face, when I close my eyes 364 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,100 # She's a dream 365 00:24:24,300 --> 00:24:25,600 # She is real 366 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,200 # Can't explain 367 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:28,800 # How I feel 368 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,800 # Am I in love? 369 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,900 # I must be in love 370 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:55,400 # Any time of the day I can see 371 00:24:55,500 --> 00:25:00,400 # Her face, when I close my eyes 372 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,200 # Am I dead 373 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:04,900 # Or alive? 374 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:06,600 # Can my poor heart 375 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,000 # Survive? 376 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,000 # Am I in love? 377 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,000 # I must be in love 378 00:25:14,900 --> 00:25:16,200 # I feel good 379 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:17,800 # I feel bad 380 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,600 # I feel happy 381 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,000 # I feel sad 382 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,800 # Am I in love? 383 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,200 # I must be in love 384 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,600 # I must be in love 385 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,800 # I must be in love 386 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000 # I must be in love 387 00:25:40,700 --> 00:25:43,200 Roger McGough is a Liverpool poet 388 00:25:43,300 --> 00:25:46,800 He's the author of many books set in and around Liverpool 389 00:25:46,900 --> 00:25:51,900 Including "Mersey Sound", "Gig", "The Liverpool Scene" and two of his Liverpool poems are 390 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,300 In the "The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century's English Verse" 391 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:59,600 He was born in Liverpool, attended school in Liverpool, was even married in Liverpool 392 00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:02,400 And his football team is of course Everton 393 00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:05,000 He's a member of the "The Scaffold", a light comedy group 394 00:26:05,100 --> 00:26:07,600 Who played The Cavern during the early sixties 395 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:14,000 And during those incredible years he lived, wrote, loved, watched football and drank in Liverpool 396 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:17,800 - Roger, did you know The Rutles? - Oh yes yes 397 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:25,000 Roger McGough, Liverpool poet, writer, author, humorist, bon-vivre, and a man who knew The Rutles! 398 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:27,200 Australia 399 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:28,700 Canada 400 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:30,400 Wales 401 00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:36,300 The Rutles were now world-wide successes. They'd rubbed shoulders with the great 402 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,900 Their pictures were everywhere. Their names endorsed a thousand products 403 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,200 From tee-shirts to garter belts to pillowcases 404 00:26:45,300 --> 00:26:48,000 Leggy was besieged by merchandisers 405 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:52,100 We felt every girl in America is gonna to want to sleep with a Rutle 406 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,800 Yes we have a complete line of Rutles products all ready to go 407 00:26:55,900 --> 00:27:00,600 The Rutle tee-shirt, the Rutle plate, the Rutle cup, the Rutle acne cream, the Rutle hairclips 408 00:27:00,700 --> 00:27:04,700 All a complete line of Rutles products, and all I need from you is just your word and 409 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,600 - We're in business. - We're in business? 410 00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:08,100 I like the way you work 411 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:13,000 Brian Thigh was a top record executive in London in 1962 412 00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:19,000 Mr. Thigh, you've been known for many many years as the man who turned down The Rutles 413 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:23,500 Yeah that's right 414 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,400 You said guitar groups were on the way out and 415 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:31,200 Would never make any money at all in the sixties 416 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:33,900 Yes I did 417 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:39,400 You turned your back on all those millions of sales, all those hundreds of gold records 418 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,600 Yeah, yeah that's right 419 00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:47,400 - What's it like to be such an asshole? - What?! 420 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,800 # I grew up in the country 421 00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:55,100 # Beside a chicken shack 422 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,200 # So I left for the city 423 00:27:57,300 --> 00:27:59,600 # And I didn't look back 424 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:01,100 # Now, I'm livin' in hope 425 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:02,400 # Livin' in hope 426 00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:03,800 # I'm livin' in hope 427 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:04,800 # Livin' in hope 428 00:28:04,900 --> 00:28:06,400 # Yes, I'm livin' in hope 429 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:08,500 # Livin' in hope 430 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:14,000 At the height of Rutlemania in 1965, their drummer Barry Wom, the noisy one 431 00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:18,400 Returned home to Liverpool, to marry his childhood sweet-heart 432 00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:21,400 The church was packed with Rutle fans 433 00:28:21,500 --> 00:28:25,800 All of whom wanted to get a close look at The Rutles 434 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:37,200 Inside the dimly lit, crowded church Barry got separated from his fiancé 435 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:40,600 And ended up with a different bride 436 00:28:50,300 --> 00:28:55,500 In the confusion, Barry's bride-to-be, twenty-three year old butcher's apprentice, Brenda Liola 437 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,900 Was accidentally married to a party of Scotsman from Hull 438 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,200 Inspiring Barry's haunting ballad 439 00:29:01,300 --> 00:29:05,400 "When you find the girl of your dreams in the arms of some Scotsmen from Hull" 440 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:08,100 Hello, London here 441 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:14,400 And it's from London that we go to Switzerland to The Rutles second movie "Ouch!" 442 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:19,500 Filmed in colour, on location very expensively, not in London 443 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:20,700 # Ouch! 444 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,100 # You're breakin' my heart 445 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:23,300 # Ouch! 446 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,600 # I'm fallin' apart 447 00:29:24,700 --> 00:29:25,800 # Ouch! 448 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:28,500 # Ow, ow, Ouch! 449 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,000 # When we first met 450 00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:34,500 # I must admit I fell for you right from the start 451 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:39,200 # I must admit I fell for you right from the start 452 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:40,600 # Now when we meet 453 00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:44,000 # All kinds of things it seems upset the apple cart 454 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,600 # All kinds of things it seems upset the apple cart 455 00:29:48,700 --> 00:29:49,700 # Ouch! 456 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:50,800 # Don't desert me 457 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:52,000 # Ouch! 458 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:53,400 # Please don't hurt me 459 00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:54,600 # Ouch! 460 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:57,400 # Ow, ow, Ouch! 461 00:29:58,100 --> 00:29:59,500 # What is this thing 462 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,200 # Called love why do they say it makes the world go 'round? 463 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,500 # Called love why do they say it makes the world go 'round? 464 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,000 # I can't explain 465 00:30:09,100 --> 00:30:12,700 # The way I feel for you, my feet don't touch the ground 466 00:30:12,900 --> 00:30:17,200 # The way I feel for you, my feet don't touch the ground 467 00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:18,400 # Ouch! 468 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:19,600 # Don't desert me 469 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:20,600 # Ouch! 470 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:22,000 # Please don't hurt me 471 00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:23,200 # Ouch! 472 00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:26,000 # Ow, ow, Ouch! 473 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,000 # When we first met 474 00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:32,100 # I must admit I fell for you right from the start 475 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:36,700 # I must admit I fell for you right from the start 476 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:38,100 # Now when we meet 477 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,100 # All kinds of things it seems upset the apple cart 478 00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:46,300 # All kinds of things it seems upset the apple cart 479 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:47,600 # Ouch! 480 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:48,700 # Don't desert me 481 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:49,700 # Ouch! 482 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,000 # Please don't hurt me 483 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:52,300 # Ouch! 484 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,000 # Ow, ow, Ouch! 485 00:30:55,900 --> 00:30:57,000 # Ouch! 486 00:30:57,100 --> 00:30:58,200 # Don't desert me 487 00:30:58,300 --> 00:30:59,300 # Ouch! 488 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:00,500 # Please don't hurt me 489 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:01,800 # Ouch! 490 00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:04,500 # Ow, ow, Ouch! 491 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:12,900 Che Stadium. Named after the Cuban guerrilla leader, Che Stadium 492 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:19,400 And it was here, in 1965, that The Rutles came, well, not here in the car park obviously 493 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:27,000 But back there, in the stadium that The Rutles came in 1965 to a capacity house, a sell-out 494 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,800 The thing I remember about it is them running out into the middle of this field 495 00:31:30,900 --> 00:31:34,700 And you couldn't see them, there they were, like, you know, just miles away 496 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,500 There...is it really The Rutles? It might be somebody else 497 00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:46,600 # There was no one in my life till I met you 498 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:52,200 # You brought me love and taught me how to smile 499 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:56,400 # You picked me up when I was feeling blue 500 00:31:57,300 --> 00:32:01,100 # From now on my future is worthwhile 501 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,700 # It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good 502 00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:06,200 # It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good 503 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,300 # It's lookin' good! 504 00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:15,600 # Now that you have given me reason to live 505 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:20,400 # I will stay forever by your side 506 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:25,500 # And give you all the lovin' I can give 507 00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:29,800 # Just say the word, and be my bride 508 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,800 # It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good 509 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,100 # It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good 510 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:38,300 # It's lookin' good! 511 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:45,400 # I'm not throwing caution to the winds, oh no 512 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:49,300 # Love is not an easy game to play 513 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:55,000 # Though I may not be a man of words, yeah, yeah 514 00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:59,100 # There is one thing I feel obliged to say 515 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,600 # It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good 516 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,900 # It's lookin' good, it's lookin' good 517 00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:07,000 # It's lookin' good 518 00:33:27,700 --> 00:33:29,200 You couldn't hear anything 519 00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:31,300 How long did they play? 520 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,700 About twenty minutes and that was it, off, helicopter 521 00:33:35,900 --> 00:33:40,200 Back to the Warwick Hotel, two birds each 522 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,500 In 1966 The Rutles faced the biggest threat to their careers 523 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,600 Nasty, in a widely quoted interview 524 00:33:46,700 --> 00:33:49,900 Apparently had claimed that The Rutles were bigger than God 525 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:54,500 And had gone on to say that God had never had a hit record 526 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,300 The story spread like wildfire in America 527 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:02,900 Many fans burnt their albums 528 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,900 Many more burnt their fingers attempting to burn their albums 529 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:11,200 Album sales sky-rocketed, people were buying them, just to burn them 530 00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:14,500 But in fact it was all a ghastly mistake 531 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,200 Nasty talking to a slightly deaf journalist 532 00:34:17,300 --> 00:34:21,200 Had claimed only that The Rutles were bigger than Rod 533 00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:25,200 Rod Steward would not be big for another eight years 534 00:34:25,300 --> 00:34:28,700 That's all I said you know, now all this has to happen 535 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:32,000 - What do you think it proves? - I think it proves you're all daft! 536 00:34:32,100 --> 00:34:34,300 I suppose I'll get into trouble for saying that now 537 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,600 Nasty apologised to God, Rod and the press and the tour went ahead as planned 538 00:34:38,700 --> 00:34:40,300 But it would be The Rutles last 539 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:45,000 Playing all the places where we're supposed to play, and we hope we can, you know, bring a bit of 540 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,500 You know, je ne sais quoi to America 541 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:54,700 At the end of it they met Bob Dylan in the idyllic San Francisco of the mid-sixties 542 00:34:54,800 --> 00:35:00,000 And he introduced them to a strange substance, which was to have an enormous affect on them 543 00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:02,500 Tea 544 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,300 Despite warnings that it would lead to stronger things 545 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,300 The Rutles enjoyed the pleasant effects of tea 546 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:24,200 And it influenced enormously their greatest work: Sgt. Rutters 547 00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:32,000 Of course the main thing that comes to my mind with the Sgt. Rutter album is 548 00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:35,800 Getting stoned and listening to it with the earphones you know 549 00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:39,200 Particularly the, you know, the chord that lasted forever you know 550 00:35:39,300 --> 00:35:43,000 The release of this album, a millstone in pop music history 551 00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:48,000 Contributed greatly to an idyllic summer of bells, flowers and tea drinking 552 00:35:48,100 --> 00:35:52,800 It's music led thousands to experiment with tea 553 00:35:55,800 --> 00:36:00,800 Eventually even the press found out and offered Dirk the chance to deny it 554 00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:05,000 It's not up to me, if you come and ask me I'm going to tell you the truth 555 00:36:05,100 --> 00:36:08,100 Because it is the truth, I have had tea 556 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:12,500 Lots of tea...Indian tea... ...and biscuits 557 00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:18,300 Dirk's admission created a scandal, the press grabbed hold of the wrong end of the stick 558 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,600 And started to beat about the bush with it 559 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,500 Many pop-stars were arrested for using and possessing tea 560 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,300 Nasty himself was busted by Detective Inspector Brian Plant 561 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,400 Who brought his own, to be on the safe side 562 00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:47,200 The Rutles meanwhile appeared live on TV 563 00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:52,700 Before a worldwide audience of two hundred million with a song that expressed the feeling of the age 564 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,100 Tea was on every-one's lips 565 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,200 # ...In your own time # Love Life 566 00:36:58,300 --> 00:36:59,500 # To live is to live... 567 00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:07,600 # Where there's a will, there's a way 568 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:11,000 # Love is the meaning of life 569 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,600 # Life is the meaning of love 570 00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:17,000 # Love Life 571 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,500 # Love Life 572 00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:21,700 # Love Life 573 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,500 # Love Life 574 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,600 # Where there's a will, there's a way 575 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:43,200 # Love is the meaning of life 576 00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:46,800 # Life is the meaning of love 577 00:37:46,900 --> 00:37:49,100 # Love Life 578 00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:51,500 # Love Life 579 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,000 # Love Life 580 00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:55,500 # Love Life 581 00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:56,300 # Everybody! 582 00:37:56,500 --> 00:37:58,700 # Love Life 583 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,100 # Love Life 584 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:01,200 # Altogether now! 585 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,200 # Love Life 586 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,700 # Love Life 587 00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:07,900 # Love is the meaning of life 588 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,200 # Life is the meaning of love 589 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,400 # Love is the meaning of life 590 00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:14,800 # Life is the meaning of love 591 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,200 # Love is the meaning of life 592 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,600 # Life is the meaning of love 593 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,900 # Love is the meaning of life 594 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:24,100 # Life is the meaning of love 595 00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:26,200 # Love is the meaning of life 596 00:38:26,300 --> 00:38:29,600 # Hold my hand, yeah, yeah! 597 00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:41,500 A new form there, a slightly different form there of choral music, with a slight difference 598 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,200 We'll be back with Prince Charles in just a moment 599 00:38:45,300 --> 00:38:49,400 "Love Life" is in many ways, the high watermark of their careers 600 00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:53,400 For a start Leggy Mountbatten was rapidly becoming a worry 601 00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:55,500 Always emotionally involved with them 602 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,400 He had far less to do once they ceased touring 603 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:00,800 Of course he had other artistes 604 00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:02,500 The McKismo Brothers 605 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,700 Arthur Hodson and the Kneecaps 606 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:08,800 As well as the French Beach Boys: Les Garcons De La Plage 607 00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:13,900 But his decision to put money into bull-fighters as a tax dodge 608 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,800 Plus his unusual personal life 609 00:39:16,900 --> 00:39:21,600 In California he'd been arrested for giving the kiss of life to a rubber raft 610 00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:25,100 Gave increasing grounds for concern 611 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:30,400 I asked Mick Jagger if he was aware of these tendencies of Leggy's 612 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:37,000 Oh yeah...Leggy yeah you're kidding, Leggy got around a bit you know 613 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:42,500 And that was alright, you know, until he started going off with the bull-fighters 614 00:39:42,501 --> 00:39:44,801 I think, that... 615 00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:48,200 That era, and then I think they got a bit disenchanted with him 616 00:39:48,300 --> 00:39:52,300 And he didn't know where to go, you know, you know, in his life I think 617 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,600 And they wanted to control more of themselves, you know 618 00:39:55,700 --> 00:40:01,300 Stig meanwhile had fallen under the influence of Arthur Sultan, the 'Surrey Mystic' 619 00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:05,800 And Sultan had introduced Stig to his Ouija board work 620 00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:10,500 Arthur Sultan now invited The Rutles on a getaway from it all 621 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,600 Table-tapping weekend near Bognor. 622 00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:17,400 As usual the press followed 623 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:26,000 The Bognor thing was really funny, the "Bognor Express" they called it in the newspapers 624 00:40:26,100 --> 00:40:29,500 Some-one was very late, one of the girls, they were always late 625 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,800 One of them, I can't remember who it was, maybe Nasty 626 00:40:33,900 --> 00:40:39,500 Thought we were trying to get on the Rutles bandwagon, you know, The Rutles mystical bandwagon, which wasn't true at all 627 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:45,000 We were just as eager to find out what was going on in this board-tapping thing at Bognor as anybody 628 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,600 # In this day and age 629 00:40:56,300 --> 00:40:59,300 # Love is all the rage 630 00:41:00,300 --> 00:41:07,000 # Life goes on, it only goes to show 631 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,100 # It's not my cup of tea 632 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:15,000 # It's all the same to me 633 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:20,400 # For we are here today and gone tomorrow... 634 00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:23,600 But while The Rutles sat at the foot of the Surrey mystic 635 00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:26,000 Fate dealt them an appalling blow 636 00:41:26,100 --> 00:41:29,400 It was here that they learnt the shocking news of their manager 637 00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:32,800 Leggy Mountbatten, tired and despondent over the weekend 638 00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:37,900 And unable to raise any friends, went home and tragically... 639 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,800 Accepted a teaching post in Australia 640 00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:46,200 It was a kind of funny weekend that, and then of course at the end of it 641 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:53,200 We found out that Leggy had gone off to Australia, which kind of put the mockers on the whole thing really 642 00:41:53,300 --> 00:41:57,900 It was a bombshell for The Rutles. They were shocked and stunned 643 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,000 - Well we're shocked - Yes shocked 644 00:42:02,100 --> 00:42:04,300 Shocked 645 00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:05,600 And stunned 646 00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:08,800 Yes stunned 647 00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:10,800 Very stunned 648 00:42:10,900 --> 00:42:14,800 Did Arthur Sultan have any words of encouragement for you? 649 00:42:14,900 --> 00:42:17,400 - No - Well yes 650 00:42:17,500 --> 00:42:20,300 Well, yes and no 651 00:42:20,900 --> 00:42:24,800 He said it took allsorts to make a world 652 00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:29,800 And that we shouldn't worry unduly about were he'd gone 653 00:42:29,900 --> 00:42:35,600 You know he said...we shouldn't get covered with grief at thoughts of Australia 654 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:39,000 Because... 655 00:42:39,100 --> 00:42:44,600 He did say we could still keep in touch with him by tapping the table 656 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,600 - And postcards - Yes 657 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,400 Very stunned 658 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:05,200 It's significant that their first major flop 'Tragical History Tour' 659 00:43:05,300 --> 00:43:10,200 Immediately followed the loss of Leggy. It was not the strongest idea for a Rutles film 660 00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:12,400 Four Oxford history professors 661 00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:15,600 On a hitch-hiking tour of tea-shops in the Rutland area 662 00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:19,500 And it was slammed mercilously by the press 663 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,200 # ...Talk about a month of Sundays 664 00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:26,500 # Toffee-nosed wet weekend as far as I can see 665 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,500 # Hey, diddle diddle 666 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,500 # The cat and the fiddle 667 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,600 # Piggy in the middle 668 00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:37,400 # Do a poo-poo 669 00:43:37,500 --> 00:43:40,100 # Bible punching heavyweight 670 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,600 # Evangelistic boxing kangaroo 671 00:43:46,100 --> 00:43:49,000 # Orang-utan and anaconda 672 00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:53,200 # Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, even Pluto, too 673 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,200 # Hey, diddle diddle 674 00:43:57,500 --> 00:44:00,400 # The cat and the fiddle 675 00:44:00,500 --> 00:44:02,600 # Piggy in the middle 676 00:44:02,700 --> 00:44:04,700 # Do a poo-poo 677 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,600 # tekraaam ot tnew eiggip elttil siht 678 00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:27,100 # One man's civilization is another man's jungle, yeah 679 00:44:28,300 --> 00:44:31,800 # They say revolution's in the air 680 00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:34,000 # I'm dancing in my underwear 681 00:44:34,100 --> 00:44:37,000 # 'Cause I don't care 682 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,300 # Hey diddle diddle 683 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,400 # The cat and the fiddle 684 00:44:43,500 --> 00:44:45,500 # Piggy in the middle 685 00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,600 # Do a poo-poo Do a poo-poo 686 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,000 # This little piggy went to market 687 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,000 # And this little piggy stayed home 688 00:45:31,100 --> 00:45:34,400 # This little piggy had roast beef 689 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,600 # and this little piggy had none 690 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:41,900 # This little piggy went Wooo..oooo! 691 00:45:42,300 --> 00:45:45,200 # All the way home 692 00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:52,400 # This little piggy went to market... 693 00:45:55,300 --> 00:45:59,600 I'm sitting in a rented limousine in New York. And it was here... 694 00:45:59,700 --> 00:46:02,400 Well not in the limousine obviously, but in New York 695 00:46:02,500 --> 00:46:07,600 The Rutles came in 1968, to announce the formation of Rutle Corp 696 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:13,400 We're here in New York to announce the formation of Rutle Corp 697 00:46:13,500 --> 00:46:17,400 Nasty and I have come over on behalf of the other Rutles 698 00:46:17,500 --> 00:46:19,600 Yes they couldn't come 699 00:46:19,700 --> 00:46:26,000 We're setting up Rutle Corp as a kind of enterprise that people can come to us 700 00:46:26,100 --> 00:46:28,800 And we'll help them, we'll give them money 701 00:46:28,900 --> 00:46:31,800 You know, if they want money, they just come to us 702 00:46:31,900 --> 00:46:36,200 Yes, instead of going to a bank, we want to help people to help themselves 703 00:46:36,300 --> 00:46:40,600 Rutle Corp did just that, people helped themselves for years 704 00:46:40,700 --> 00:46:45,000 At one stage they were losing money faster than the British Government 705 00:46:45,100 --> 00:46:48,500 There are continued allegations that Rutle Corp is going bankrupt 706 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:52,700 Eric Manchester, the Rutles press agent: Are these allegations true? 707 00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:57,400 No, no, they're conjecture you know, it's only a rumour 708 00:46:57,700 --> 00:47:02,300 I think you'll find the way you get success, you always find this kind of rumour. No... 709 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,400 So the stories of the thefts, they're not true also? 710 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:09,200 No, they're greatly exaggerated, greatly exaggerated 711 00:47:09,300 --> 00:47:11,200 It's bad, you know, things are going 712 00:47:11,300 --> 00:47:15,000 But nothing like the rate, that people indicate 713 00:47:15,100 --> 00:47:18,600 The trouble is that people feel because these boys are The Rutles 714 00:47:18,700 --> 00:47:22,200 People can come in and help themselves to whatever they want. And this is just not on 715 00:47:22,300 --> 00:47:26,300 And we're putting a stop to this, and we're are doing, you know, it's almost dried up 716 00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:30,600 Things have gone, I wont deny it, television sets 717 00:47:30,700 --> 00:47:33,400 The odd car belonging to the company 718 00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:34,900 Has disappeared 719 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,300 But... it's not extreme you know 720 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,400 I did come in once and found that my office had been nicked 721 00:47:42,500 --> 00:47:46,000 But it had been nicked by Ron Decline, who we'd called in 722 00:47:46,100 --> 00:47:49,200 To stop this sort of flow of goods from the building, so that was alright 723 00:47:49,300 --> 00:47:54,900 So once you see this stop do you feel that Rutle Corp will continue into the future? 724 00:47:55,000 --> 00:48:01,100 Absolutely. I feel that once we've put a stop to this sort of bit of petty pilfering 725 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:05,600 Rutle Corp will last for a very, very, very... 726 00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:12,000 For awhile, three chapters of the Redditch Hell's Angels lived in the basement of Rutle Corp 727 00:48:12,100 --> 00:48:14,900 Before Stig had the nerve to ask them to leave 728 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:18,100 - Who hurt Stig? - One of the girls 729 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:21,100 - Who? - Big Valerie here 730 00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,400 We're very upset, but there's not much we can do about it 731 00:48:24,500 --> 00:48:27,400 - Why not? - Well...she'll thump me 732 00:48:27,500 --> 00:48:30,400 The Rutles next opened a clothes boutique in London 733 00:48:30,500 --> 00:48:33,400 Which lost nearly a million dollars in only three weeks 734 00:48:33,500 --> 00:48:36,800 Before Nasty blew it up 735 00:48:51,500 --> 00:48:54,600 # I have always thought 736 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:58,000 # in the back of my mind 737 00:48:58,100 --> 00:49:01,000 # cheese and onions 738 00:49:05,100 --> 00:49:08,200 # I have always thought 739 00:49:08,500 --> 00:49:11,800 # that the world was unkind 740 00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:14,700 # cheese and onions 741 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,700 # Do I have to spell it out? 742 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:32,200 # C-H-E-E-S-E A-N-D O-N-I-O-N-S 743 00:49:32,300 --> 00:49:34,700 # Oh, no. 744 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,600 # Man and machine 745 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,000 # Keep yourself clean 746 00:49:45,300 --> 00:49:48,100 # Or be a has-been 747 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,600 # Like a dinosaur... 748 00:49:52,300 --> 00:49:55,000 # Man or device 749 00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:58,200 # For everything nice 750 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,100 # You'd better think twice 751 00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,700 # At least once more... 752 00:50:05,900 --> 00:50:08,700 # Man and machine 753 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,000 # Keep yourself clean 754 00:50:12,500 --> 00:50:15,300 # Or be a has-been 755 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,000 # Like a dinosaur... 756 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,300 # Man or device 757 00:50:22,700 --> 00:50:25,700 # For everything nice 758 00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:29,400 # You'd better think twice 759 00:50:30,100 --> 00:50:33,100 # At least once more! 760 00:50:33,500 --> 00:50:36,300 # Man and machine 761 00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,600 # Keep yourself clean 762 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,000 # Or be a has-been 763 00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,500 # Like a dinosaur! 764 00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:50,100 # Man or device 765 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,600 # For everything nice 766 00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:55,400 # You'd better think twice... 767 00:50:55,500 --> 00:50:58,600 Hey there, who's your friend? Get his teeth cleaned 768 00:50:58,700 --> 00:51:02,300 - Oh hello Nasty - Hello Dirk 769 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:07,000 - Oh that's torn it - What are you doing Stig? 770 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:12,000 - Just getting out of here - Well I'm gonna get out of here too 771 00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:22,100 Personal problems now began to split The Rutles into smithereens 772 00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:27,000 They would sing together, but they wouldn't talk. Pretty soon they wouldn't even sing 773 00:51:27,100 --> 00:51:34,300 By March 1969 things had got so bad within the group that both Dirk and Nasty got married 774 00:51:35,700 --> 00:51:37,700 Dirk had become enamoured with Martini 775 00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:41,700 A French actress who spoke no English and precious little French 776 00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:45,200 When they married in London the service was conducted in Spanish 777 00:51:45,300 --> 00:51:50,200 Italian and Chinese, just to be on the safe side 778 00:51:50,300 --> 00:51:53,400 I love you... 779 00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,600 It's you I love... 780 00:51:57,700 --> 00:52:01,400 Today is our wedding day... 781 00:52:01,500 --> 00:52:04,700 For you always I will wai... 782 00:52:06,300 --> 00:52:08,100 G, B, B, E... 783 00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:09,500 F... 784 00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,100 - D - D...D... 785 00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:24,800 That's nice... 786 00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,900 # Time goes by, as we all know 787 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,400 # Naturally 788 00:52:41,100 --> 00:52:44,200 # People come and people go 789 00:52:44,300 --> 00:52:46,500 # Naturally 790 00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,400 # Let's be natural 791 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,000 # Ever since the world began 792 00:52:53,100 --> 00:52:55,800 # Let's be natural 793 00:52:56,100 --> 00:52:59,100 # Every woman, every man 794 00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:02,000 # Let's be natural 795 00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,300 # Has followed nature's plan 796 00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,200 # Let's be natural 797 00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,600 # Oh, yeah 798 00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,600 Nasty meanwhile visited an exhibition of broken art 799 00:53:21,700 --> 00:53:24,200 At the Pretentious Gallery, Soho 800 00:53:24,300 --> 00:53:29,300 The art exhibits had all been dropped out of tall buildings and then put on display 801 00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:33,400 Amongst the little piles of rubble, Nasty found the artist herself 802 00:53:33,500 --> 00:53:38,400 Chastity, a simple German girl, whose father had invented WW2 803 00:53:38,500 --> 00:53:40,400 Nasty adored her 804 00:53:40,500 --> 00:53:45,100 They announced their engagement, next day at a press conference held in his shower 805 00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:46,600 What are you doing this for? 806 00:53:46,700 --> 00:53:50,700 We're doing this for peace, and basically to show that the world is... 807 00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:54,700 You know, going astray, and is dripping 808 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,600 - What are you doing? - We're getting wet in a shower 809 00:53:58,700 --> 00:54:02,900 Because basically we talked it over, Chastity and myself 810 00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,000 And we came to the conclusion 811 00:54:05,100 --> 00:54:10,300 That civilisation is nothing more than an effective sewage system 812 00:54:10,500 --> 00:54:15,300 And so by the use of plumbing we hope to demonstrate this to the world 813 00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,400 Stig meanwhile, had hidden in the background so much 814 00:54:18,500 --> 00:54:22,300 That in 1969 a rumour went around that he was dead 815 00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:26,700 Several so called 'facts' helped the emergence of this rumour 816 00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:30,900 One: he...he never said anything publicly 817 00:54:31,100 --> 00:54:35,900 Even as the 'quiet one', he'd not said a word since 1966 818 00:54:36,500 --> 00:54:42,200 Two: on the cover of their latest album, 'Shabby Road' he's wearing no trousers 819 00:54:42,300 --> 00:54:45,600 An Italian way of indicating death 820 00:54:45,700 --> 00:54:51,600 Three: Nasty supposedly sings "I buried Stig" on "I Am The Waitress" 821 00:54:51,700 --> 00:54:54,700 In fact he sings "E burres stigano" 822 00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:58,800 Which is very bad Spanish for "Have you a water buffalo?" 823 00:54:58,900 --> 00:55:01,800 Four: on the cover of the Sgt. Rutter album 824 00:55:01,900 --> 00:55:07,900 Stig is leaning in the exact position of a dying Yeti from the 'Rutland Book of the Dead' 825 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:15,200 Five: if you sing the title of "Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band" backwards 826 00:55:15,300 --> 00:55:20,200 it is supposed to sound very like "Stig has been dead for ages honestly" 827 00:55:20,300 --> 00:55:26,200 In fact it sounds uncannily like "dnab bulc ylno srettur tnaegres" 828 00:55:26,300 --> 00:55:28,400 Palatable nonsense 829 00:55:28,500 --> 00:55:33,900 Stig was of course, far from dead, although not in fact, far from Esher 830 00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,800 He'd fallen in bed with Gertrude Strange 831 00:55:36,900 --> 00:55:40,400 A large breasted biologically accommodating American girl 832 00:55:40,500 --> 00:55:43,400 Who's father had invented the limpet mine 833 00:55:43,500 --> 00:55:46,600 When they met, it was lust at first sight 834 00:55:46,700 --> 00:55:50,400 Barry meanwhile had also spent a year in bed as a tax dodge 835 00:55:50,500 --> 00:55:53,900 Eric Manchester thinks that he'd either received appalling financial advice 836 00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:58,100 or that he was desperately trying to start a "Barry is also dead" rumour 837 00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:02,400 When he finally got up Rutle Corps was in a perilous financial plight 838 00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:06,200 Nasty had flown back in a hurry from his honeymoon rally in Nuremburg 839 00:56:06,300 --> 00:56:09,600 To meet the most feared promoter in the world 840 00:56:09,700 --> 00:56:12,400 Ron Decline 841 00:56:20,500 --> 00:56:23,600 Decline had a reputation as a hard man 842 00:56:23,700 --> 00:56:26,200 His only weak spot was dishonesty 843 00:56:26,300 --> 00:56:30,900 Any-one was free to inspect his books, but no-one could find his accounts 844 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,900 He struck terror into the hearts of his subordinates 845 00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:40,500 People would commit suicide rather than meet him 846 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:45,500 In business his left hand never knew who his right hand was doing 847 00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:49,900 Nasty adored him, he was a man after his own wallet 848 00:56:57,300 --> 00:57:01,800 Decline promised The Rutles that if they let him take care of their royalties 849 00:57:01,900 --> 00:57:05,300 They would never have to worry about money again 850 00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:09,500 Stig meanwhile was accepting the financial advice of Billy Kodak 851 00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:13,800 Whilst Dirk had invited Arnold Schwarzenweisengreenenbluenbraunenburger 852 00:57:13,900 --> 00:57:18,700 To handle his end of the name, Barry was consulting the I Ching every three and a half minutes 853 00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:20,800 There was a plethora of lawyers 854 00:57:20,900 --> 00:57:26,100 Suddenly every-one became amazingly 855 00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:31,000 I remember, I'd get up in the morning, sue some-one, check in the papers I hadn't been fired 856 00:57:31,100 --> 00:57:36,000 Go to the office, sue some-one, pick up the morning's writ, sue the bank 857 00:57:36,100 --> 00:57:38,900 Go out to lunch, sue the restaurant 858 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:42,100 Get back in, collect the writs that had been received that afternoon 859 00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:47,400 Read the papers, phone the papers, sue the papers, and go home 860 00:57:47,500 --> 00:57:48,700 To the wife 861 00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:53,400 They're asking me "Where's the money, where's the money?" I mean I don't know where the money is 862 00:57:53,500 --> 00:57:56,000 I've never been good with figures, you know that 863 00:57:56,100 --> 00:57:59,300 I don't know anything about math, it was never my good subject 864 00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:03,400 I don't know where the money is, but if you need money, I'll give you money 865 00:58:03,500 --> 00:58:07,100 But this... this, really, surprises me... 866 00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:08,400 I'm really shocked 867 00:58:08,500 --> 00:58:13,000 Because I thought we had something here a lot stronger than just business 868 00:58:13,100 --> 00:58:18,000 I mean you know, I love you more than I love my own family, I do 869 00:58:18,100 --> 00:58:21,800 I wanna protect you, I wanna help you 870 00:58:21,900 --> 00:58:24,400 I wanna protect you from the outside world 871 00:58:24,500 --> 00:58:28,500 Protect you...protect you from... ...people like me 872 00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:32,800 At the final meeting a hundred and thirty four legal people and accountants 873 00:58:32,900 --> 00:58:35,600 Filed into a small eight by ten room 874 00:58:35,700 --> 00:58:38,200 Only eighty seven came out alive 875 00:58:38,300 --> 00:58:40,400 The black hole of Savile Row 876 00:58:40,500 --> 00:58:44,800 Had taken toll of some of the finest merchant banking brains of a generation 877 00:58:44,900 --> 00:58:46,900 Luckily that's not very serious 878 00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:50,200 But The Rutles were obviously self-destructing fast 879 00:58:50,300 --> 00:58:52,800 In the midst of all this public bickering 880 00:58:52,900 --> 00:58:57,400 'Let It Rot' was released as a film, a album and a lawsuit 881 00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:02,000 In 1970 Dirk sued Stig, Nasty and Barry 882 00:59:02,100 --> 00:59:04,700 Barry sued Dirk, Nasty and Stig 883 00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:07,200 Nasty sued Barry, Dirk and Stig 884 00:59:07,300 --> 00:59:10,000 And Stig sued himself accidentally 885 00:59:10,100 --> 00:59:12,400 It was the beginning of a golden era for lawyers 886 00:59:12,500 --> 00:59:15,700 But for The Rutles, live on a London rooftop 887 00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:18,900 It was the beginning of the end 888 00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:30,900 # Workin' up a fever in a one-horse town 889 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:34,600 # Was a jockey by the name of Joe 890 00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:38,700 # He didn't have a lot of what you might call luck 891 00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:42,500 # But he had a lot of get up n' go 892 00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,400 # Get up n' go Get up n' go 893 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:50,200 # Get up n' go back home 894 00:59:50,900 --> 00:59:54,300 # Get up n' go Get up n' go 895 00:59:54,900 --> 00:59:58,100 # Get up n' go back home 896 01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:17,600 # Tall in the saddle in a one-horse town 897 01:00:17,700 --> 01:00:21,600 # Joe, he knew someday he'd hit the road 898 01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:25,400 # He traded with a dealer for a pick-up truck 899 01:00:25,500 --> 01:00:29,200 # And went lookin' for a medium load 900 01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:33,200 # Get up n' go Get up n' go 901 01:00:33,700 --> 01:00:36,900 # Get up n' go back home 902 01:00:37,700 --> 01:00:41,000 # Get up n' go Get up n' go 903 01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:44,700 # Get up n' go back home 904 01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:07,000 # Ketchup n' go Ketchup n' go 905 01:01:07,500 --> 01:01:10,800 # Ketchup and go back home 906 01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:14,700 # Get up n' go Get up n' go 907 01:01:15,300 --> 01:01:18,400 # Get up n' go back home 908 01:01:18,900 --> 01:01:22,600 # Ketchup n' go Get up n' go 909 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:26,200 # Get up n' go back home 910 01:01:26,900 --> 01:01:30,300 # Get up n' go Get up n' go 911 01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:33,200 # Get up n' go back home 912 01:01:33,300 --> 01:01:37,800 Like any of the other enormous music...popular music phenomenom’s 913 01:01:37,900 --> 01:01:42,500 Sinatra, and Presley, and The Rutles, and then, you know, some people say... 914 01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:46,300 Well you know "Its time, every ten years, who will be the next Rutles?" you know 915 01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:49,600 I don't think there will be a next Rutles 916 01:01:49,700 --> 01:01:54,500 Sixteen years after the fresh-faced prefab four first burst into the public eye 917 01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:59,000 And eight years after they split up, just where are The Rutles today? 918 01:01:59,100 --> 01:02:03,200 Dirk has formed with his wife Martini, a punk rock group 919 01:02:03,300 --> 01:02:05,600 called The Punk Floyd 920 01:02:05,700 --> 01:02:08,700 He sings, and she doesn't 921 01:02:10,500 --> 01:02:16,300 Nasty has turned his back on the world and sits with his thoughts and his memories 922 01:02:17,300 --> 01:02:22,900 Barry is a hairdresser in the Reading area, with two fully equipped salons of his own 923 01:02:24,900 --> 01:02:29,600 While Stig works for Air India as a air-hostess 924 01:02:30,700 --> 01:02:33,300 Fame is a fickle mistress 925 01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:37,200 Just how many people remember The Rutles today? 926 01:02:37,300 --> 01:02:41,200 We asked the public just what is a Rutle? 927 01:02:41,300 --> 01:02:45,300 Excuse me madam, we're doing a documentary, and I wonder if you'd answer a few questions 928 01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:47,200 Sorry I don't answer questions 929 01:02:47,300 --> 01:02:50,400 It wont take a second of your time, really, we've just got the camera rolling right away here 930 01:02:50,500 --> 01:02:53,700 We're from England, and we're making a documentary and we just want one question, please 931 01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:56,900 - Alright - Thank you very much, just stand right here ok? 932 01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:00,600 - Who were The Rutles? - I don't know 933 01:03:00,700 --> 01:03:02,800 - Come on you must know - No I'm sorry I don't know 934 01:03:02,900 --> 01:03:04,500 - Yes you do know - No well I don't know 935 01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:06,300 - Who were The Rutles? - I don't know 936 01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:07,700 - You do know! - No I don't know! 937 01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:09,800 - You do know! The Rutles! - I don't know who they are! 938 01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:12,600 - Who were The Rutles? Please tell us - I don't know who they are 939 01:03:12,700 --> 01:03:14,200 - Who were The Rutles? - I don't know! 940 01:03:14,300 --> 01:03:15,200 - You do know! - I don't! 941 01:03:15,300 --> 01:03:17,400 - You do know! Who were The Rutles?! - I don't know! 942 01:03:17,500 --> 01:03:18,400 Who were The Rutles?! 943 01:03:18,500 --> 01:03:22,400 The Rutles were a mop-top English pop quartet of the sixties who set the foot of the world a-tapping 944 01:03:22,500 --> 01:03:26,800 With their catchy melodies, their whacky Liverpool humour and their zany off-the-wall antics 945 01:03:26,900 --> 01:03:29,400 Epitomised in such movies as "A Hard Days Rut" and "Ouch!" 946 01:03:29,500 --> 01:03:32,200 Dirk and Nasty, the acknowledged leaders of the group 947 01:03:32,300 --> 01:03:36,700 Were perfectly complimented by Stig, the quiet one, and Barry, the noisy one 948 01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:40,200 To form a heart-warming, cheeky, lovable, talented 949 01:03:40,300 --> 01:03:42,800 Non-Jewish group who would gladden the hearts of the world 950 01:03:42,900 --> 01:03:45,300 - Thank you very much - In 1962 they played The Cavern. 951 01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:48,700 - After that they spent several months in Hamburg. - Yes, thank you very much indeed 952 01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:52,400 Then in 1962 they released their first single "Twist and Rut" 953 01:03:52,500 --> 01:03:54,400 Yes thank you very much, thank you 954 01:03:54,500 --> 01:03:57,700 Will you shut up?! 955 01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:01,400 From New York back to London 956 01:04:01,500 --> 01:04:07,200 I'm standing on the crossing, where the Rutles legend ended 957 01:04:07,300 --> 01:04:13,200 Here it was that the prefab four Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry 958 01:04:13,700 --> 01:04:18,400 The Rutles, the singing phenomena, who made the sixties what they are today 959 01:04:18,500 --> 01:04:21,500 Here it was that indeed......! 960 01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:29,800 Mick, why do you think The Rutles broke up? 961 01:04:29,900 --> 01:04:34,000 Why do I think they did? Why did The Rutles break up? 962 01:04:34,300 --> 01:04:40,400 Women. Just women, getting in the way 963 01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:42,900 Cherchez la femme, you know 964 01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:46,000 Do you think they'll ever get back together again? 965 01:04:46,100 --> 01:04:48,000 I hope not 966 01:04:48,100 --> 01:04:51,900 # People were proud in Doubleback Alley 967 01:04:52,100 --> 01:04:56,100 # Neighbours were loud, but ever so pally 968 01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:59,900 # People would shout, joking about 969 01:05:00,300 --> 01:05:04,200 # The smoke and the soot, Mother would put 970 01:05:04,300 --> 01:05:07,300 # The milk bottles out 971 01:05:08,300 --> 01:05:12,300 # We had a good time in Doubleback Alley 972 01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:16,400 # With fences to climb, and Father O'Malley 973 01:05:16,500 --> 01:05:20,000 # To clip your ear, and steer you clear 974 01:05:20,100 --> 01:05:24,000 # Of the funny man in the ice cream van 975 01:05:24,100 --> 01:05:27,300 # Who talked so queer 976 01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:35,100 # Doubleback Alley takes me back and in my mind I see 977 01:05:36,600 --> 01:05:43,600 # Happy, smiling faces if I flog my memory 978 01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:48,000 # Plenty to do in Doubleback Alley 979 01:05:48,300 --> 01:05:52,200 # Play peek-a-boo with Saccharine Sally 980 01:05:52,300 --> 01:05:55,900 # Bouncing a ball against a wall 981 01:05:56,400 --> 01:06:00,400 # Showing her drawers, "You come indoors!" 982 01:06:00,500 --> 01:06:03,500 # Her dad would call 983 01:06:24,500 --> 01:06:31,000 # Doubleback Alley takes me back and in my mind I see 984 01:06:32,700 --> 01:06:36,100 # Happy, smiling faces if... 985 01:06:36,500 --> 01:06:39,000 Subtitles produced by Robiko