The Rutles were the perfect Beatle parody, starring Monty Python’s Eric Idle and the Bonzos’ Neil Innes in their classic mock-doc All You Need Is Cash, with scene-stealing turns by George Harrison, Mick Jagger, and Paul Simon. The Rutles, “Cheese and Onions” (1978) A legend to last a lunchtime. You might think it’s a cheap laugh but it will cost you something.”ĭreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World His enthusiasm makes you doubt the sincerity of his other public displays. You see this video, you’re going to be depressed for at least ten minutes about the existential condition of Paul-dom. The drumming is where his cheeky-chappy act gets profoundly upsetting. Paul does a rap that goes something like, “Oooh oooh, no one can dance like you.” In the video he plays multiple roles as members of a studio band, mugging and biting his lower lip. MTV played it constantly during the 1985 holiday season, though radio wouldn’t touch it. Nobody saw the movie, but Paul’s theme was worse than the movie could have been. It was the theme for a big-budget Hollywood spy comedy starring Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd. If you’re under thirty, you have never heard of a song called “Spies Like Us,” and I am a horrible person for being the one to tell you. “PAUL IS SOMEBODY WHO DOES THINGS WITH ENTHUSIASM, which makes people feel appalled and insulted at things he chooses to do.
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