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Innes and band
The band was short-lived, and Innes and McGee relocated to London while Gillespie chose to remain in Glasgow.
May was subsequently dismissed and Gillespie's former bandmate Innes was brought in as his replacement, and the band finally found a new drummer, Gavin Skinner.
The band, now consisting of only Gillespie, Innes and Young, relocated to Brighton to regroup.
This originally fictional band, created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for 1970s television programming, became an actual group ( while remaining a parody of The Beatles ) and toured and recorded, releasing two UK chart hits.
Idle claims on the All You Need Is Cash DVD commentary track that Harrison and Starr at one point discussed starting a band with Innes and Idle, based on the Beatles ' and Rutles ' shared and imaginary histories.
Rutles music for Rutland Weekend Television and the spin-off album The Rutland Weekend Songbook was recorded by Neils Innes ' own band Fatso, which consisted of:
Here, he joined several of his fellow students ( including Rodney Slater, Roger Ruskin Spear and Neil Innes, who was studying art at Goldsmiths College ) in forming a band.
Neil Innes remembers that the band were reportedly stopped by a local U. S. sheriff and asked if they were carrying any firearms or drugs.
Oasis have been successfully sued for plagiarism by Neil Innes, ironically himself a member of Beatles-parody band The Rutles sued by McCartney over plagiarism of The Beatles ' songs, as Noel Gallagher's 1994 song Whatever directly lifted parts of its melody from Innes's 1973 song How Sweet to Be an Idiot.
After the breakup of The Drains, McGee along with Innes moved to London and formed the band Laughing Apple.
The disappointment was a major reason for the original Primal Scream splitting up shortly after Sonic Flower Groove, leaving vocalist Bobby Gillespie and the guitar duo of Andrew Innes and Robert " Throb " Young to reorganize the band.
Gibbard took the band name from the title of the song written by Neil Innes and Vivian Stanshall and performed by their group, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, in The Beatles ' 1967 film, Magical Mystery Tour.
One show introduced The Rutles, a four-piece band fronted by Innes as a man " suffering from love song " spoofing The Beatles, singing " I Must Be In Love ", a masterly pastiche of some of the early Lennon-McCartney songs.
The band formed in 1991, with the current lineup along with Innes Phillips, who shared singing and songwriting duties with MacLean ; their original name was The Butterfly Collectors.
Innes left the band ( and would go on to found The Relict ); the rest of the group re-formed in 1997, after which they moved to London and released a number of singles that were eventually collected on Suburban Light ( 2000 ).

Innes and himself
On television, Idle created Rutland Weekend Television ( RWT ), a sketch show on BBC2, written by himself, with music by Neil Innes.
Greene himself credited Michael Innes as the inspiration for his " entertainment ".
Members included Innes himself, as well as :-
by Michael Innes, Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham and Careless Corpse by C. Daly King ) when he said, " Only Mrs. Christie keeps closer to the old tradition, and this time she adds much doggy lore and a terrier so fascinating that even Poirot himself is nearly driven from the centre of the stage.

Innes and Halsey
During Rutles performances and studio recordings, Innes took lead on the songs that resembled Lennon's ; Halsall sang on most McCartney-esque tunes ; Fataar sang the Harrison songs ; and Halsey sang a Ringo Starr-type song.
This led to a Rutles reunion album in 1996, featuring Innes, Fataar and Halsey.
After an 18-year hiatus, The Rutles ( Innes, Halsey and Fataar ) reconvened to record the 1996 album Archaeology ( parody of the Beatles Anthology ).
Innes and Halsey toured as The Rutles in the UK, augmented by other musicians.
* The original " Rutles " Musicians are: Roger Rettig and Billy Bremner on guitars, Brian Hodgson on bass, Neil Innes on piano, and John Halsey on drums.
Three of the four musicians who had created the soundtrack for the 1978 film — Innes, Halsey and Fataar — reunited in 1996 and recorded a second album, Archaeology, a send-up of The Beatles Anthology albums.
The Rutles were played by Eric Idle, John Halsey, Ricky Fataar, and Neil Innes.
Innes, Fataar and Halsey returned in 1996 to record The Rutles Archaeology, but without the involvement of Eric Idle.
John Halsey played Ringo Starr facsimile Barry Wom in Idle and Innes ' Beatles parody, The Rutles, which originated as a sketch on RWT.
This scene was later remade in the spinoff film, All You Need Is Cash, featuring Idle, Innes, Rikki Fataar and John Halsey ( who also appeared in many of the musical items in the series ) as the " Pre-Fab Four ".
On RWTV, " The Rutles " are portrayed by: Eric Idle as the Harrison character, Neil Innes as the Lennon character, David Battley as the McCartney character, and John Halsey as the Ringo character.
They are introduced as: " Dirk " ( Idle ), " Nasty " ( Innes ), " Stig " ( Halsey ), & " Barry " ( Battley ).

Innes and Ollie
Adrian Henri, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, John Gorman, Mike McCartney, George ` Zoot ' Money, Neil Innes, Michael Giles, Kate Robbins, John Megginson, Andy Roberts, David Richards, Peter ` Ollie ' Halsall, Norman Smedles, Brian Jones, Ritchie Routledge, Valerie Movie, Gerry Conway, Pete Tatters and Timmy Donnell.

Innes and Halsall
When The Scaffold tour ended in 1975, Halsall and Conway also left Grimms, to be replaced by Donnell for the third album, which left the final version of Grimms with only seven members ( Gorman, Roberts, Innes, McGough, Megginson, Richards and Donnell ).

Innes and Andy
The group then merged into the expanded line-up of Grimms with the likes of Neil Innes, Andy Roberts, Viv Stanshall, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten.

Innes and Brown
Wilkinson asked for and received a pension of $ 7, 000 from Miro and also requested pensions on behalf of several prominent Kentuckians, including: Harry Innes, Benjamin Sebastian, John Brown, Caleb Wallace, Benjamin Logan, Isaac Shelby, George Muter, George Nicholas, and even Humphrey Marshall ( who at one time was a bitter rival of Wilkinson's ).
In January 1791, President Washington accepted U. S. Senator John Brown's suggestion to appoint a Kentucky Board of War, composed of Brown, Scott, Isaac Shelby, Harry Innes, and Benjamin Logan.

Innes and group
The Rutles were a creation of neil Innes and Eric Idle amongst others as a wildly successful group whose career was loosely based on The Beatles.
Neil Innes said about the formation of the group, " I don't know what attracted the Scaffold to the Bonzos ; we were incredibly anarchic, which was probably something shared by the Scaffold as well.
Innes, a former member of the British musical comedy group Bonzo Dog Band and Monty Python's de facto musician, was acquainted with the Beatles as the Bonzos had a cameo appearance in the movie Magical Mystery Tour in which they performed " Death Cab for Cutie ".
On May 7, 2010, NBC announced that Innes would be appearing in the new action drama The Event as Sophia, " the leader of a mysterious group of detainees ", alongside Lisa Vidal, who played Kerry Weaver's wife in ER.

Innes and played
Nine years earlier, Robert Hardy had played Donald's father, Sir Malcolm Campbell, in the BBC2 Playhouse television drama " Speed King "-both were written by Roger Milner and produced by Innes Lloyd.
* Ron Nasty ( styled after John Lennon )played by Neil Innes
As the series continued, some key changes were made: Nurse Carol Hathaway, played by Julianna Margulies, who attempts suicide in the original pilot script, was made into a regular cast member, while Gloria Reuben and Laura Innes would then join the series as Physician Assistant Jeanie Boulet and Dr. Kerry Weaver, respectively, by the second season.
The main characters were the Magician ( played by Neil Innes, who also composed music for the programme ), and a Spell Dragon named Toby ( voiced by Richard Robinson ); the Magician told Toby stories by moving his finger around in a puddle ( when using the interior set ) and a bird bath ( when using the exterior set ) and producing images.
In 1986, Innes played the young daughter of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara in the short-lived television sitcom The Stiller and Meara Show, but the series was canceled within a few weeks.
In 1989, Innes played the character of Miss Andrews in the second season of the Nickelodeon TV show " Hey Dude " episode 7, " Teacher's Pest.
His brother Edward Innes Pocock played international rugby for Scotland and was part of Cecil Rhodes ' Pioneer Column.

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