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===Later history=== In 1979, Idle and Fataar issued a single as "Dirk and Stig"β"[[Ging Gang Goolie]]" backed with "Mr. Sheene". This was Idle's only appearance on a Rutles-related disc.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rutlemania.org/rutles5.html |title=The Rutles β The Lean Years |website=Rutlemania.org |access-date=2014-07-26}}</ref> There were no Rutles projects throughout the 1980s. In 1982, the Rutles were involved in a record scandal reminiscent of the one surrounding the Beatles' ''[[Yesterday and Today]]'' album. Rhino Records, at the time a small Los Angeles label specialising in offbeat releases, released an album that it called ''[[Beatlesongs]]'', purportedly a collection of Beatles novelty songs but actually a weird catch-all of assorted Beatles-related tunes. For the collection, Rhino licensed the Rutles' "Hold My Hand" from Warner Bros Records. The cover of the album was done by well-known commercial artist [[William Stout]], who had made a name for himself drawing the cover artwork for some of the best-looking Beatles bootleg records in the 1970s. His cover drawing included a representation of [[Mark David Chapman|Mark Chapman]], the man who had killed John Lennon. The ensuing uproar prompted Rhino to reissue the album with a new cover featuring a photograph of Beatles memorabilia, claiming that Stout refused to amend his work.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rutlemania.org/lean3.html |title=The Rutles β The Lean Years β Part 3 |website=Rutlemania.org |access-date=2014-07-26}}</ref> A clip from ''[[All You Need Is Cash]]'' appeared on a VHS compilation tape of comedy videos put out by the now-defunct [[Vestron Video|Vestron Home Video]] in 1985. The clip is simply the Tragical History Tour part of ''All You Need Is Cash'', with the sound clunkily muted out during the segment's narration in order to leave just the music. This home video release was released on both VHS and Laserdisc.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rutlemania.org/lean4.html |title=The Rutles β The Lean Years β Part 4 |website=Rutlemania.org |access-date=2014-07-26}}</ref> Innes, with a group called the Moptops backed by the 'Rutland Symphony Orchestra',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rutlemania.org/rutles6.html |title=Live Rutles |website=Rutlemania.org |access-date=2014-07-26}}</ref> performed as "Ron Nasty and the New Rutles" at a convention honouring the 25th anniversary of Monty Python in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rutlemania.org/troubador.html |title=An Eyewitness account of Ron Nasty and the New Rutles at the Troubador |website=Rutlemania.org |access-date=2014-07-26}}</ref> This led to a Rutles reunion album in 1996, featuring Innes, Fataar and Halsey. Halsall died in 1992, but the reunion album, titled ''Archaeology'' as a play on the Beatles' ''Anthology'' series, featured several tracks recorded in 1978 that included his contributions.<ref name="Larkin"/> The Japanese version included four bonus tracks. In 2000, Idle released ''[[Eric Idle Sings Monty Python]]'', a live concert album in which he performs "I Must Be in Love" as Sir Dirk McQuickly. In 2002, Idle made ''[[The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch]]'', which remained unreleased for a year. The film employs unused footage from the previous Rutles film, and features an even bigger number of celebrity interviews discussing the band's influence. This was met with mixed reactions from fans, particularly because no new footage of the Rutles was filmed. The DVD had yet to be released in the UK as of February 2014. McQuickly and Nasty have cameos in the 2004 [[graphic novel]], ''[[Superman: True Brit]]'', co-written by former [[Monty Python's Flying Circus]] member [[John Cleese]]. In 2007, a reissue of ''Archaeology'' included a new Rutles track called "Rut-a-lot" (a jab at Idle's stage show ''[[Spamalot]]'') which is simply a live medley of songs from the first Rutles album. On 17 March 2008, all four movie Rutles (Innes, Idle, Fataar and Halsey) reunited for the first time at a 30th anniversary screening of ''All You Need Is Cash'' at the [[Egyptian Theatre]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]. The event included a question and answer session and performance by members of the tribute show "Rutlemania" which ran for a week at the [[Ricardo MontalbΓ‘n Theatre]] in Hollywood before doing a week in NYC at the Blender Gramercy Theater. The "Rutlemania" live show was conceived and written by Eric Idle which starred the Beatles tribute group [[The Fab Four (tribute)|the Fab Four]] as "The Pre-Fab Four" Rutles. In February 2009, on his website ''InnesBookOfRecords.Com'', Innes released what he referred to as "Ron Nasty's Final Song", titled "Imitation Song", a parody of "[[Imagine (John Lennon song)|Imagine]]". This was also Innes's first and only entry in the ''Masters of Song-Fu'' competition run by [[Quick Stop Entertainment]]. On 9 February 2014, Idle reprised his narrator persona from ''All You Need Is Cash'' as part of ''[[The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles]]'', noting how the Rutles had made their American debut 50 years earlier, and it was an amazing coincidence the Beatles were there the same day. He then lent straight narration to biographical sketches of the Beatles' early lives. On 29 December 2019, Innes died of a heart attack at the age of 75, and the Rutles disbanded shortly afterwards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50948921|title=Monty Python songwriter Neil Innes dies aged 75|date=30 December 2019|website=Bbc.co.uk}}</ref> In his final interview before his death, Innes expressed enthusiasm about either a late 2019 U.S. tour or a 2020 spring tour for the Rutles.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-01-01|title=Rutles' leader Neil Innes, dead at 75, goes deep in one of his final interviews: 'Mortality is real'|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/story/2020-01-01/rutles-founder-neil-innes-dead-at-75-goes-deep-in-one-of-his-final-interviews|access-date=2021-04-19|website=San Diego Union-Tribune|language=en-US}}</ref>
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