I love the Beatles so much. And I love their film “Yellow Submarine”, having seen it some 20 or 30 times. But so what? you say. Well, many years ago Eric Idle and some of his Pythonesque friends got together and filmed a mock biography of a very Beatles-like group, The Rutles (learn more). Where the Beatles were the fab four, these lads were the pre-fab four. It was a hilarious spot-on parody and the more you knew about the Beatles the more clever of an affectionate send-up it was. If you love the Beatles you must see The Rutles in “All You Need Is Cash“.

In one part of the movie, they are spoofing the period where the Bealtes, in full psychedelia, released the animated film “Yellow Submarine“. Well, in the Rutles parody, they released “Yellow Submarine Sandwich”, looking remarkably like the beatles film but of course spoofing it. The video below, for The Rutles “Cheese And Onions”, captures the sound of the Beatles really well, and also captures the look of the animated movie. Clever lads, those Rutles! 😉

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