Beatles ’77 pt4

Yesterday and Today

As summer turned to fall in the midst of 1977, the fab four legacy continued to loom large in the worlds of John, Paul George and Ringo... and indeed, the world at large. No such greater cultural compliment could be given than that of Lorne Michaels's new fab mock-umentary, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, which began filming on August 2nd. Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry's legend would last a lunchtime, and there to sit in on the feast was a host of comedy's elite: from SNL heavyweights like Bill Murray, John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Dan Aykroyd, to pythons such as Eric Idle...and of course one fourth of their inspiration, Mr. George Harrison. So enamored with the pre-fab four was George, that references to the Rutland sound and their infamous trousers would pop up in just about every interview "the quiet one" would give for years to come! While the hits of old were spoofed in masterful fashion, new hits were on the horizon as well...most notably in the new McCartney-Laine penned ode to Scotland, Mull of Kintyre. Paul's star continued its commercial climb with no sign of slowing down, but the success of his band Wings was put into jeopardy that September with Jimmy McCulloch and Joe English quit the band. With one former Beatle in damage control mode...Ringo Starr (the noisy one) forged ahead with a new LP release he hoped would undo the damage that his waning success over the last year had taken on his career. Thus the LP Ringo The 4th...a boogie-woogie beaucoup of sound that Ringo hoped would recapture his glory...but alas, it was not to be....

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