"Personal problems now began to split the Rutles into smithereens. They would sing together, but they wouldn't talk. Pretty soon, they wouldn't even sing. By March 1969, things had gotten so bad within the group, that both Dirk and Nasty got married. Not to each other, of course...to women."

"Gwen Taylor - Iris Mountbatten / Chastity"

"Bill Murray - Bill Murray the K."

"Gilda Radner - Mrs. Emily Pules"

"Dan Aykroyd - Brian Thigh, Ex-Record producer who turned down the Rutles"

"John Belushi - Ron Decline, The most feared promoter in the world and a parody of Allen Klein"

"Bianca Jagger - Martini McQuickly"

"George Harrison - The Interviewer"

"Michael Palin - Eric Manchester, Rutle Corp. Press Agent/Lawyer"

"John Halsey - Barry Wom, a parody of Ringo Starr"

"Ricky Fataar - Stig O'Hara, a parody of George Harrison"

"Neil Innes - Ron Nasty, a parody of John Lennon"

"Eric Idle - Dirk McQuickly (a parody of Paul McCartney) / Narrator / Stanley J. Krammerhead III, Jr., Occasional visiting professor of applied narcotics at the University of Please Yourself Ca."

"Comedy spoof of Beatlemania from Monty Python's Eric Idle..."

"The Rutles, a living legend that will live long after other living legends have died."

"Thank you very much. Thank you. And now we'd like to do a number, dedicated to a very special lady in the audience tonight! Barry's mum."

"It's not up to me. If you come to me and ask me, I'm gonna tell you the truth, because it is the truth, I have had tea. Lots of tea. Indian tea. And biscuits."

"What Ron and I'll do is probably to write some songs, you know, and sell them to people. We tried to write some for the Rolling Stones, and they're probably gonna buy them."

"Sixteen years after the fresh-faced Pre-fab Four first burst into the public eye, and 8 years after they split up, just where are the Rutles today? Dirk has formed, with his wife Martini, a punk rock group, called "The Punk Floyd". He sings, and she doesn't. Nasty has turned his back on the world, and sits with his thoughts and his memories. Barry is a hairdresser in the Reading area, with two fully equipped salons of his own. While Stig works for Air India. As an air hostess."

"In the midst of all this public bickering, "Let It Rot" was released as a film, an album and a lawsuit. In 1970, Dirk sued Stig, Nasty and Barry. Barry sued Dirk, Nasty and Stig. Nasty sued Barry, Dirk and Stig, and Stig sued himself, accidentally. It was the beginning of a golden era for lawyers. But for the Rutles, live on a London rooftop, it was the beginning of the end."

"At the final meeting, 134 legal people and accountants, filed into a small 8x10 room. Only 87 came out alive. The black hole of Savile Row had taken toll of some of the finest merchant banking brains of the generation. Luckily, that's not very serious. But the Rutles were obviously self-destructing fast."

"Barry, meanwhile, had also spent a year in bed, as a tax dodge. Eric Manchester thinks he'd either received appalling financial advice, or he was desperately trying to start a "Barry is also dead" rumour."

"Stig, was of course, far from dead. But not, in fact, far from Esher. He'd fallen in bed with Gertrude Strange, a large-breasted, biologically acommodating American girl, whose father had invented the limpet mine. When they met, it was lust at first sight."