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How Sweet to be an Idiot 1973
Momma Bee
Immortal Invisible
Topless a Go Go
Feel no Shame
How Sweet to be an Idiot
Dream On
L'Amour Perdu
Song for Yvonne
This Love of Ours
Singing a Song is Easy

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Recycled Vinyl Blues 1994

Complilation including all of How Sweet to be an Idiot plus:

Angelina
Come Out into the Open
Lie Down and be Counted
Age of Desperation
Dream On
Fluff on the Needle
Bandwagon

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Catchphrase (BBC TV 1978)


Off the Record 1978
Libido
City of the Angels
Them
Time to Kill
Rock of Ages
One Thing on Your Mind
The Worm and the Angel
Not Getting any Younger
Takeaway
Happy Ending
Stoned on Rock
Spaghetti Western
Mr Eurovision
Ungawa
Godfrey Daniel
Fortune Teller
Mother
Burlesque
Down That Road


BBC radio sessions
[not yet documented]
The Rutles

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Ollie [above and far right below] as Leppo [Stuart Sutcliffe] in the Rutles movie, 'All You Need is Cash'

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Th Rutles get back

Reunion in Hollywood 2008

Meet the Rutles 1978
Goose-Step Mama
Number Two
Baby Let Me Be
Hold My Hand
Blue Suede Schubert
I Must Be In Love
With A Girl Like You
Between Us
Living In Hope
Ouch!
It's Looking Good
Doubleback Alley
Good Times Roll
Nevertheless
Love Life
Piggy In The Middle
Another Day
Cheese And Onions
Get Up And Go
Let's be Natural

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Archeology 1998
Major Happy
Rendezvous
Questionnaire
We've Arrived
Lonely Phobia
Unfinished Words
Hey Mister
Easy Listening
Now She's Left You
Knicker Elastic King
I Love You
Eine Kleine Middle Klass Musik
Joe Public
Shangri La
Don't Know Why Back in 64

2007 reissue also includes:
Baby S'il Vous Plait
Lullaby
My Little Ukelele
Under My Skin

1978 out-takes and updated newer material.

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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
[Not yet documented]


All You Need is Cash [video] 1976
The best Beatles parody ever and, bizarrely, more accurate than the real Beatles Anthology

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Rutles 2 - Can't Buy Me Lunch [video] 2003

Somewhat less than successful 'sequel'. Described as 'embarrasing' by Barry Wom [John Halsey]

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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
George Martin of The Rutles"
- Neil Innes

Words of Innespiration
- The Neil Innes website

John Altman interview

Ollie & Ali - John Altman

The Rutles

Neil Innes guitar vocal
John Halsey
drums
Ricky Fataar
guitar drums vocal
John Altman arrangements
Ollie Halsall guitar vocals keys bass
[uncredited]

Neil Innes and The Rutles

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