Saturday, December 26, 2020

“Cheese and Onions”, The Rutles

This way: Cheese and Onions

The Rutles were a rock band that performed visual and aural pastiches and parodies of the Beatles. This originally fictional band, created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for a mid-1970s BBC television comedy programme, later became an actual group—while remaining a parody of the Beatles—which toured and recorded, releasing two albums that included two UK chart hits.

The Rutles were originally created as a sketch in Idle's British television comedy series Rutland Weekend Television. Encouraged by the positive public reaction to the sketch, the mockumentary television film All You Need Is Cash (1978, aka The Rutles) was created, assisted by former Beatle George Harrison, who also appeared in the film. The mockumentary was written by Idle, who co-directed it with Gary Weis; it featured 20 Beatles' music pastiches written by Innes, which he performed with three musicians as the Rutles. A soundtrack album in 1978 was followed in 1996 by Archaeology, which spoofed the then-recent Beatles Anthology series. 

[Spotify] Cheese and Onions 

[Extra credit, Galaxie 500] Cheese and Onions 

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