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The article begins like this: Ricky Fataar (born 5 September 1952 in Durban, South Africa) is a South African musician who is primarily a drummer. The first sentence of the next paragraph is: He was originally part of The Flames, a band from his birthplace of Durban, South Africa that began in 1963. He joined the band at the age of nine years old. But if he joined The Flames at the age of 9 in 1963, he would have had to been born in 1954. If he joined The Flames later than 1963, his year of birth must also be pushed back correspondingly. http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/f/fataarricky.html lists him as joining The Flames in 1965, making him EITHER born in 1956 (if he was 9 when he joined The Flames) OR he was 13 when he joined The Flames in 1965 - and this is, to me, more likely. At any rate, I will leave this matter to be decided by someone who actually cares about it. Hi There 15:10, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How could someone not care about Ricky Fataar? He's Ricky Fataar, for heaven's sake! Ricky Fataar! -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:52, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ricky is a drummer. The article points out that, when he joined The Rutles, "his character was Stig O'Hara, the band's guitarist". Did Ricky actually play the guitar when acting in The Rutles, or was he dubbed by e.g. Neil Innes? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:52, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He actually played various instruments on The Rutles albums. (Including guitar, sitar, bass, & drums.) All noted on the album credits. Lead Guitar work on the first Rutles album was done by Ollie Hasall. (Ollie died before the 2nd Rutles studio album, appearing on a couple of songs via outtake material.) ~2026-85811-7 (talk) 20:50, 16 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that Ricky was extensively involved in at least one Boz Scaggs project, the album Some Change. It might be worth mentioning this here, given Scaggs' importance.

Is there any particular reason why the 2nd & 3rd paras of the other career section aren’t in Music career one? Record production and studio session work as a musician are both work in the Music sphere. Boscaswell talk 04:19, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's slightly erroneous to call the original Rutles sketch an "SNL sketch". Did it appear for the first time on U.S. television on SNL? Yes. Did Lorne Michaels choose the sketch for inclusion on SNL? Yes. Was the appearance on SNL and the number of positive responses to the sketch the impetus to convince Lorne Michaels a full-length feature film on the band should be invested in? Yes.

BUT ... The Rutles "I Must Be In Love" music video + sketch, first appeared in 1976, in the U.K. on Eric Idle's "Rutland Weekend Television", and its accompanying soundtrack album. (Neither of which feature Ricky Fataar.) Idle brought over a few sketches for inclusion on SNL, in case they needed to fill in some time - and since the "Rutland Weekend" program hadn't aired in the U.S. it was basically "new" to U.S. viewers - Lorne Michaels felt The Rutles fit in with SNL's then running joke about re-uniting The Beatles for $3000.

So ... where does Ricky come in? Eric Idle met him while on a holiday in Barbados - during the writing of Monty Python's "Life of Brian" film - they became friends, and that's how he came to be thought of for The Rutles. (Yeah, sorry for the overly long explanation.) ~2026-85811-7 (talk) 21:06, 16 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I thought this entry, at some point noted them. Ricky was married to fashion model Penelope Tree. (I see The Rutles connection noted.) They had a daughter named "Paloma". Should it be expanded upon? It's all noted in Penelope Tree's Wikipedia entry. ~2026-85811-7 (talk) 00:16, 18 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]