He went on to form the satirical band The Rutles with Eric Idle, and in 2019 – the year of his death, aged 75 – he released a new studio album, Nearly Really. Just before the record was ...

Dirk McQuickly (Eric Idle), Barry Wom (John Halsey), Stig O'Hara (Ricky Fataar), and Ron Nasty (Neil Innes); better known as the Rutles. This documentary follows their career from their early days ...

One famous face who didn’t show up to the big bash was Eric Idle ... Who knows? Idle was seemingly good chums with Michaels (who also produced Idle’s The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash ...

Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer and comedic composer. Idle was a member of the English surreal comedy group Monty Python, a member of the Rutles on Saturday Night ...

After the comedy group came to an end, Innes joined fellow Python Eric Idle on a new series, Rutland Weekend Television, which gave birth to their spoof band The Rutles - a pastiche of The Beatles.

In 1978, Innes and Eric Idle of Python created a Beatles spoof band, The Rutles, and filmed a mockumentary of the same name. Innes then became the star of a BBC television series, The Innes Book ...