THE RUTLES

Glad we all know "THE BEATLES", but who knows "THE RUTLES"?
This band is the "baby" of the MONTY PYTHON members and it is real GENIOUS. 
A fictional band joinly created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes.
It is an amazing 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 movie is amazing and if you have never heard about them and you listen to one of their song with your eyes closed YOU HEAR THE BEATLES.
Even the names and the evolution of the band is almost identical.
John Lennon is named RON NASTY, Paul McCartney is DIRK Mc QUICKLY, George Harisson (played by an Indian Guy, reason his close contact with Indian musicians and sitar) is called STIG O' HARA and Ringo Starr is BARRY WOM original name BARRINGTON WOMBLE = Richard Starkey. So it is ALL A "BEATLES PASTICHE" but very meticulous, almost real horrifying, but really HILARIOUS. I must admit that BRITISH HUMOR is one of the best there is. Neil INNES was the frontman of the ex-Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band), The Beatles at that time were huge fans of that band AND Monty Python. They were also good friends with the Beatles.
Some songs are really amazing and you can fool a lot of people by playing a RUTLE'S album and tell that this is an album with lost tracks. Also the song titles:
- Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band.
SOME LINKS:
http://www.rutles.org/rstory.html
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q … oq=the+rut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rutles .
They have 2 movies (but I'm not sure)
1) ALL YOU NEED IS CASH = Closely follow the Beatles, the Beatlemania and chronological. George Harisson plays a cameo role as interviewer. You will also see and hear MICK JAGGER giving comment on the Rutles.
2) TRAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR.
DO ME A FAVOUR AND WATCH THEM ON YOUTUBE, I would love to have some opinions.