Scarce THE RUTLES Archaeology - Parody The Beatles Anthology SEALED VINYL LP

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THE RUTLES
ARCHAEOLOGY



IDENTIFIER: UK VUSLP119
As you are most likely aware, 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 sketch in Idle's mid-1970s BBC television comedy series Rutland Weekend Television, later toured and recorded, releasing two studio albums and garnering two UK chart hits. The band toured again from 2002 until Innes' death in 2019.

After an 18-year hiatus, the Rutles (Innes, Halsey and Fataar) reconvened to record the 1996 album Archaeology (a parody of The Beatles Anthology). Halsall had died in 1992, but he appears on several tracks that were outtakes from the original 1978 album, and he is credited as a band member. (Similarly, the three surviving Beatles had incorporated recordings by John Lennon in the songs "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love".)

On record, the band was augmented by keyboardist Mickey Simmonds (who also played with the band live) and bassist Malcolm Foster (ex-Pretenders), as the Rutles had no bass player. Guitarists Doug Boyle and Bernie Holland were featured.

TRACK LISTING / Parody of


• Major Happy's Up-And-Coming Once Upon a Good Time Band / "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
• Rendezvous / With a Little Help from My Friends" with backing vocals reminiscent of "Good Day Sunshine" and "A Day in the Life"
• Questionnaire / A composite of "The Fool On The Hill" "Imagine" "I Am the Walrus", "Eleanor Rigby" and "Nowhere Man" with pointed lyrics referring to Lennon's assassination and American gun-ownership laws.
• We've Arrived! (And to Prove It We're Here) / Rutles versions of Back in the U.S.S.R. and Flying with a Revolution 9 reference in the ending.
• Lonely-Phobia"/ Acoustic ballads from A Hard Day's Night-era, especially "Things We Said Today" and "I'll Be Back" May also contain references to "Spanish" chord progression used in early rehearsal versions of I Me Mine and to guitar riffs from McCartney/Wings song Deliver Your Children.
• "Unfinished Words" / An original composition making use of an unused music track featuring Halsall from the 1978 recordings in the manner of "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love", fake Beatles outtakes' hoax set to a tune resembling "Glass Onion", "Nowhere Man" and "In My Life".
• Hey Mister! / I Me Mine and Yer Blues, references Helter Skelter at the ending, and features "hey!" calls reminiscent of The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill. Also bears similarities to Glass Onion and You've Got to Hide Your Love Away.
• Easy Listening / Octopus's Garden, with some suggestions of Don't Pass Me By and Act Naturally, and a lyrical reference to Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
• Now She's Left You / I Don't Want to Spoil the Party written for the original film but unused. It is also an answer song to You're Going to Lose That Girl.
• The Knicker Elastic King / Getting Better - The spoken middle-eight homages the Yellow Submarine film and Ringo Starr's children's TV narration. The mix also include a brief extract from a French radio broadcast, reflecting a similar segment in Wings' song Picasso's Last Words.
• I Love You / Elements of It's Only Love and And I Love Her
• Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Musik / In the style of Come Together, with a Rhodes riff borrowed from Maybe I'm Amazed.
• Joe Public / In the style of Tomorrow Never Knows and Rain, with Fataar singing lead. It features Indian instruments and a meandering string session reminiscent of Within You, Without You.
• "Shangri-La / Many Pepper/Magical Mystery Tour-era Beatles references and a new Hey Jude-style coda. A Day in the Life forms the backbone of the song, which variously transforms into Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds amongst others, features a chorus suggested by All You Need Is Love and Magical Mystery Tour, and contains a horn riff taken directly from For No One
• Don't Know Why / Directly pastiches Free as a Bird
• Back in '64 / An answer song to When I'm Sixty-Four, recorded in 1978, with a solo reminiscent of the Moog lines in Maxwell's Silver Hammer. The zum zum zum zum backing vocals reference those of Innes's 1977 song Crystal Balls.

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