The Rutles was a fictional band jointly created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes that was an affectionate pastiche of The Beatles. The group is best known because of the 1978 mockumentary television film about them, titled All You Need Is Cash (often referred to as just The Rutles). The film was written by Idle, who co-directed it with Gary Weis. It prominently featured 20 songs written by Innes and performed by Innes with three musician cohorts. A soundtrack album was released in 1978, followed in 1996 by Archaeology loosely spoofing the Beatles' Anthology.
A second film, The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch, - loosely modeled on the 2000 TV special The Beatles Revolution - was made in 2002 and released in the US on DVD in 2003.
