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Ollie [above and far right below] as 'Leppo' [Stuart Sutcliffe] in the Rutles movie, 'All You Need is Cash'
Reunion in Hollywood 2008 Rutles Uncut
"We had Ollie", says John Altman, "who could reproduce anything, play it upside down and make it funny all at the same time." To Halsall's disappointment, the part of Dirk has gone to Idle. Everyone who works with him later raves about Halsall's contributions as guitarist and singer, and he gets a 3-second cameo in the film as Leppo, the fifth rutle. Uncut magazine |
Meet the Rutles 1978
Archeology 1998 2007 reissue also includes: 1978 out-takes and updated newer material.
Superb Beatles pastiches. For the first album, Ollie not only contributed guitar, bass and keyboards but also sung the vocal parts of Eric's Idle's character Dirk McQuickley (slightly speeded up). As far as I can tell he features only on We've Arrived & Hey Mister from the Archeology set. |
Rehearsal tapes 1978 All You Need is Cash [video] 1976 The best Beatles parody ever and, bizarrely, more accurate than the real Beatles Anthology
Rutles 2 - Can't Buy Me Lunch [video] 2003 Somewhat less than successful 'sequel'. Described as 'embarrasing' by Barry Wom [John Halsey]
Ollie played guitar [and probably bass | keyboards] on all the original Rutles' recordings and movie soundtracks, played the part of Leppo [the 5th Rutle] and sang Dirk McQuickley's parts - which Eric Idle mimed to in the films "John Altman is the Neil Innes guitar vocal |
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Rutles reunited in Los Angeles, 2008. L-R: Barry Wom (John Halsey), John Altman (Musical arranger), Ron Nasty (Neil Innes), Dirk McQuickly (Eric Idle), Stig O'Hara (Ricky Fataar) |
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How Sweet to be an Idiot 1973
Recycled Vinyl Blues 1994 Complilation including all of How Sweet to be an Idiot plus: Angelina
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Off the Record 1978 BBC radio sessions [not yet documented] |
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June 1977: Innes, Fatso drummer Halsey, South African bassist/drummer Ricky Fataar and ace guitarist Ollie Halsall are rehearsing Innes' 20 Rutles songs and trying not to collapse in laughter. Halsall, left-handed and similar to Macca in vocal range hopes to land the Dirk role in the film. 
