The Rutles
The Rutles were foreshadowed in episode 3 of Eric Idle's 1975 BBC television series "Rutland Weekend Television", in which Neil Innes accompanied himself on a piano singing what later became the song "Good Times Roll" (included on the Rutles‘ first, self-titled album in 1978). The Rutles themselves first appeared in a sketch later in 1975, which presented a mock mini-documentary about the fictional 1960s band. The sketch featured Neil Innes (formerly of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and a frequent Monty Python collaborator) fronting the band, singing "I Must Be In Love", a pastiche of Lennon and McCartney's 1964 style.