Though many other bands tried to emulate their unique sound, The Rattles were one of a kind. (Via Bedazzled)

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knoxblox

Nice to see some of the dancers from the gymnasium scene in Monster-a-Go-Go found additional work.
http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi

I wonder how these guys feel about these guys:
THE RATTLES – Canada’s Most Authentic Tribute to THE BEATLES!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FJUUROIMFNYWV53SAYZ7TGNX6I Sherm

Oh, so this who The Rutles parody!
- Felton / Moderator
  
  Yeah, I always assumed they were a parody of The Knickerbockers.
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FJUUROIMFNYWV53SAYZ7TGNX6I Sherm
    
    That’s a great song, I heard it 1st on one of those Nuggets Box sets from Rhino.
http://twitter.com/MartianEmpress Rezeya Montecore

So help me, I thought this was gonna turn out to be somebody’s viral video for their parody film.
Halloween_Jack

According to their Wikipedia article, they actually played with the Beatles in Hamburg a few times before the latter became famous, so their sound is maybe not strictly imitative. There but for fortune, eh?
Beanolini

Personally, I would rather listen to Rattles’ “The Witch“, than any of the other bands involved in the Hamburg scene of the early 60s.
http://twitter.com/nfoonf nfoonf

They just sound like of a lot of the Bands founded around 1959-1962 here in Hamburg… So I think, speaking about simple imitation is a bit oversimplyfying.

The Rattles performance 1966