������The Rutles played three engagements at Hamburg's Star Club between May and December, 1962.

������During the Rutles' last gig at the Star Club, the stage manager, Adrian Barber, formerly lead singer of the Rutland band the Big Three, experimented with his new Grundig tape recorder by recording the Rutles rehearsing for their Christmas shows, using one single mike placed in front of the stage.

������The Star Club closed in 1964. The tapes were forgotten for many years, until, while the building that used to house the club was undergoing renovation, the tapes were discovered in a box marked "trousers".

������The tapes were sent to Leggy Mountbatten in Australia, who immediately faxed them to Ron Nasty in New York. After the details were worked out and a proper copy was made and sent to them in the mail, Nasty and the other Rutles listened to the tapes around the time they were working on their new album "Archaeology". It was finally decided that the tapes didn't sound good enough to include on the album, but while copies of the tape were passing between Nasty and the others involved in the making of the album, someone made a clandestine copy.