The LP Booklet Pages 13 and 14
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Stig meanwhile had fallen under the influence of Arthur Sultan, the
Surrey mystic and he had introduced Stig to his Ouija Board Work.
Sultan now invited the Rutles on a get-away from it all, table-tapping
weekend near Bognor. As usual the Press followed. But while the Rutles
sat at the feet of the Surrey mystic seeking spiritual enlightenment at
his hands fate dealt them an appalling blow. It was at Bognor that
they learned the shocking news of the loss of their manager Leggy
Mountbatten. Tired and despondent over the weekend and unable to raise
any friends, Leggy had gone home, and, tragically, accepted a teaching
post in Australia. It was a bombshell for the Rutles. They were
shocked. And stunned.
The news was not entirely unexpected. Leggy's recent behaviour had
been giving grounds for concern: he had been investing heavily in
Spanish Bullfighters and in California he had been arrested for giving
the kiss of life to a rubber raft: but he had for many years held the
Rutles together--often forcibly. Now he was gone.
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The Rutles firt major flop THE TRAGICAL HISTORY TOUR immediately
followed the loss of Leggy. It was not the strongest idea for a Rutles
films-four Oxford History Professors on a walking tour of English Tea
Shops, and it was slammed mercilessly by the critics.
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