The Fut

The Fut is a British Rockgroup, formed in London, in 1969. Members are Maurice Gibb, Steve Groves, Steve Kipner and Billy Lawrie. Included over the years on innumerable Beatles bootlegs, "Have You Heard The Word" (on A-side of the single issued in 1970) is such a convincing fac-simile of The Fab Four's Magical Mystery Tour-era work that, in 1985, Yoko Ono attempted to copyright the song as a John Lennon composition. In fact it had been the work of exiled Australian duo Tin Tin (Steve Kipner and Steve Groves) and their friend Maurice Gibb (Bee Gees), aided and abetted by Billy Lawrie, brother of Maurice's then-wife Lulu. The product of a drunken studio session in the summer of 1969 the master tape was leaked to the Beacon label, who issued it as a single credited to The Fut.