Extended Reading

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash quotes

  • Ruttling Orange Peel: They got it all from me, every single bit of it!

    Narrator: Well how do you mean?

    Ruttling Orange Peel: Well sir, they come here, and they took everything I ever written. Those four guys from Liverpool came *here*!

    Mrs. Peel: He's lyin'!

    Ruttling Orange Peel: I ain't lyin'!

    Mrs. Peel: He's *always* lyin'!

    Ruttling Orange Peel: I ain't lyin'... I ain't lyin'!

    Mrs. Peel: Every time there's a documentary on white music 'round here, he claims he started it all!

    Ruttling Orange Peel: I did, I did, I did!

    Mrs. Peel: Last week, he claimed he started the Everly Brothers, Frank Sinatra, and Lawrence Welk!

    Ruttling Orange Peel: I did, I did!

    Mrs. Peel: He's always lyin'!

    Narrator: [flustered] Well, we seem to be... wasting our time here in New Orleans, despite the expense. Still... pretty, isn't it?

  • Mick Jagger: We were livin' in... y'know, squalor... and we didn't have any money... and we saw these... they were the Rutles on TV, with girls chasing them, we thought "this can't be that difficult", so we thought we'd have a go... ourselves.