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Check out the 615.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=297zDxqzUJo&NR=1

Great stuff! Had actually heard this song ("I Must Be in Love") as part of the Eric Idle/Neil Innes "Rutland Dirty Weekend Songbook" album that came out the year before George & Lorne Michaels bankrolled "All You Need is Cash."

And as marvelous and spot-on as the Rutles parodies are/were ("Nevertheless" could just as easily have been "Within You Without You" when I play them back in my head), I remember feeling it wasn't quite right that Nasty played a fireglo 610 instead of a black 325. Though they did get the Macca switch from Hofner to Rick4001 right, and the "Earwig" drum logo is brilliant! But I gave them artistic license against their relatively limited budget (despite George's involvement) and give long-standing appreciation for a work that in now 30 years-old and just as loving and relevant as any of the "real" documentaries that came later (spec. the "Compleat Beatles" narrated by Michael York from the early 80's)... "Hold my hand, yeah! yeah!"

A legend that will last a lunchtime.

It seems like there's one Beatle who didn't much care for the Rutles:

"Ringo Starr liked the happier scenes in the film but the scenes that mimicked the sadder times in the band career he felt were too close to home. John Lennon loved the film so much that he refused to return the video tape and soundtrack he was given of the film for approval. He told Innes, however, that ‘Get Up and Go’ was too close to The Beatles ‘Get Back’ and to be careful as not to be sued by Paul McCartney. McCartney (who had just released his own album, London Town, at the time) would always answer a “no comment” when asked about the Rutles.

Innes: “He had a dinner at some awards thing at the same table as Eric one night and Eric said it was a little frosty”. However, all of the group and Apple consented to the use of the The Beatles Shea Stadium footage, along with other “real” footage cut in with Rutle footage."

When I started dumping albums in favor of CD's back in the early 80's, this is one album I kept. The artwork on the booklet is just as funney as the movie.

Because of the potential of a lawsuit "Get up and Go" was kept off initial releases of the Rutles album

One of the NYC DJ's (can't remember if it was Scott Muni) was interviewing Neil Innes and brought up the subject of "Get up and Go" being in both Messrs. Lennon and Harrison's words- "...really close to one of Paul's". Mr Innes jokingly told the two Beatles he would bring his guitar to court and prove that the songs are different. The two Beatles were concerned

Innes said that ironically with all the concern over the McCartneyesque "Get up and Go", it was another song from the album, the Lennonesque- "Cheese and Onions" actually showed up on a John Lennon-Beatles Tribute Bootleg.

Funniest line-"Shocked......and stunned"

Sorry, folks, that's not a Rickenbacker. It's a Rutlebacker.

Yeah, but I think it was the trousers...

>Funniest line-"Shocked......and stunned"

After Lennon's death, George Harrison issued a statement saying, "After all we went through, I had and still have great love and respect for him. I am shocked and stunned. To rob life is the ultimate robbery." I'm puzzled as to why he'd use this exact phrase, "shocked and stunned", imbedded in a genuine public statement of grief. Is it just very dark humor, the sort he thought Lennon would appreciate? I have to think this wasn't a tossed off "it's a drag" sort of comment Macca was pilloried for; it seems more calculated as an official PR statement at the time....but who in the hell was in the mood for humor/Rutle references at that moment? Then years later, Bob Geldof said he was "shocked and stunned" to hear of George's death. George probably would have appreciated that, since he was well aware of his impending mortality. Lennon's death was an utterly complete surprise to everyone, though, and since it's well known that George and John never really reconciled, the 'shocked and stunned' comment always struck me as an odd choice of final words in light of the 70's Rutles parody of it.

I'm not sure, but I think The Compleat Beatles documentary was narrated by Malcolm McDowell.

As some may know, I'm in the world's only Rutles tribute band:
http://www.myspace.com/ouchrutles