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The glasses really are glasses

The original version is missing everything that makes Ramones version great…

Very good Elton John spoof, even better Bernie Taupin piss-take.

This is yet another beautiful Neil Innes song - if it is spoofing anyone it is clearly Bernie Taupin! (God less him!)) p.s. get with it guys!

Thank you John Peel.

I was hearing "God free Daniel" until I read the info.😆Which also could be an Elton John lyric.

Great track!! Wonderful musicianship! Thank you for the Stiv tribute. 💔

Absolute work of comedic/satirical genius here. Alas I was just too young to have regularly watched RWT so thanks so much for posting this.

It’s not just doorknobs that come off in your hand Indeed!

Just fantastic. Neil Innes was a genius.

Its not The Rutles. Its Neil Innes.

I'd swear this was actually Elton

Actually pretty good 😂

Maybe it's just me, but every time I hear this song I hear Billy Joel.

Thanks for sharing. Incidentally, perhaps coincidentally, maybe it's from exposure to the "original" recording, Joe's voice sounds (definitely twice, distinctly) like Joe's, Jeff's, singing voice. Happy to hear this. Hope you're all well. Ramones is a story... and you're part of it. Thanks.

Neil Innes just brilliant ❤

This is just what Elton John was actually like in the 70s. Ain't no parody

That's just a great Elton outfit though where's the spoof

Let's all remember that EJ doesn't write the lyrics, so it's as much a spoof on Bernie Taupin. Poor ol' underappreciated BT.

A melody waiting to be plucked from the ether. 🎼🎵🌦️

Neil innes, the seventh python

what a clown

If this band were not so daft looking with their musical excellence they would have been as big as Pink Floyd for sure. LOL watching their presentation is like getting a custard pie in the face and that puts people who judge a book by the cover off as I have seen some You Tube reviewers going off. I think their excellent anyway and underated by people being shallow. Just listen this is awesome.

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Genius! and hilarious🤣

Only Neil Innes can perfectly encapsulate Elton John's ability to sing nonsensical words yet somehow make them sound profound.

Just like the rutles were as good as the beetles

Only the great Neil Innes could capture another songwriter so perfectly and still somehow make it his own and have it be just as good as the original.

Does anyone know what Elton's reaction was to this track, if any? It's funny how one of my favorite Elton John songs isn't actually sang by Elton John lol

I wouldn't be surprised if the hunger games got a lot of clothing design ideas from the real Elton John

I have no doubt Elton John wishes he had thought of those glasses first.

This what you get if Elton John had a baby with a dishwasher.

this isn’t The Rutles. It’s Neil Inness on Ruthland Weekend Television spoofing Elton John

The lame guitar solo is not easy to pull off and make funny.

I will never understand British humor or whatever that was.

I’m pretty sure I’ve had a dream that went exactly like this

This a real bop

Elton hold my beer....

I remember Rutles. It was scary. I watched it with a roomful of Beatles fans and we all made all kinds of twisty not-quite-pained faces throughout-it was so perfect, so right-on-point, so *almost* Beatles… it made us crazy. Brilliant parody. This one is too.

Rutland John is wearing a pair of glasses.

The end is fantastic "other bits are a little bit slow.... bits"

I don't understand something: If Godfrey Daniel had done nothing wrong, why would they sentence him to being sent to Ohio?

Lol the wine glasses

He sounds more like David Bowie

Love The Rurles. So good.

What a great song that I've never heard in my entire life despite being an Elton fan and a Monty fan.

Genuinely like this song!

"come off in your hand..." -- Hey, you can't fool me, Neil. Naughty naughty-- the Itch is back.

Punk

The lyrics sound more like someone trying to spoof John Denver :D