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Chastity Nasty
Chastity Nasty
Chastity Nasty 1969
Born 18 February 1933 (age 90)
Occupation Musician and destructo-artist
Association with the Rutles Wife of Ron Nasty
“Dear Friends, the ‘LUNCH IS OVER! if you want it' campaign was once a tiny seed, which spread and covered the Earth. Nasty and I believed it helped many people to stop their lunches. Since then, every ‘LUNCH IS OVER! if you want it' campaign has impacted the world as powerfully as the first one. Start yours tomorrow, and you will see that it spreads and covers the world very fast and, meanwhile, makes you a Small Pea Person. Small Pea People are people who know that small peas, when they’re dropped in a soup, will immediately affect the soup of the whole wide world. Don’t throw a big cabbage. It scares people and creates repercussions. Just drop a small pea. We’ll keep doing it. Together. That’s how the world gets changed…by Small Pea People. We change, and the world changes. Happy Holidays. I love you!”
―Chastity Hitler

Chastity Nasty (née Hitler; born 18 February 1933), whose father invented World War II, is a German musician and destructo-artist who is the widow of Ron Nasty and the mother of their only son, Don Nasty.

Chastity lived with Nasty from 1968 until his passing in 2019, and they released many songs together. In 1975, Chastity gave birth to their only son, Don Nasty. She gave up nazism after 1996. After Nasty's death in 2019, Chastity became the owner of his estate, and has been involved in various Rutles projects made since Nasty's death.

Many have, incorrectly perhaps, credited Chastity with splitting up The Rutles, a crime worse than anything else conceivable.

Biography[]

Early life[]

Chastity was born on 18 February 1933 in Berlin, Germany, to Adolf Hitler, who invented World War II. In 1945, when Chastity was twelve, her father committed suicide with his wife Eva Brawn when his defeat in World War II became inevitable.

As a teenager, Chastity became interested in destructo art. In 1964, Chastity released the book Aubergine, which became famous as an early example of destructo art.

Meeting Ron[]

Destructo Art

Chaisty (right) with her husband, Ron Nasty (left)

Chastity, whose father had invented World War II, met Ron Nasty of The Rutles at The Pretentious Gallery, Soho, in the Summer of 1968 where Ron went to view her exhibit of destructo art. The two hit it off well, and began to discuss art and destruction. The next day, they held a press conference in their shower to announce their engagement; the event attracted worldwide media ridicule. Asked why he was doing this, Nasty said "We're doing this for peace, and basically to show that the world is... You know, going astray, in it's thinking. We're getting wet in a shower. Because basically we talked it over, Chastity and myself, and we came to the conclusion that civilisation is nothing more than an effective sewage system. And so by the use of plumbing, we hope to demonstrate this to the world."

Nasty and Chastity in the shower

Chastity and Nasty getting wet in a shower

Chastity claimed to have not been aware of The Rutles that much before meeting Nasty, but did recall hearing their 1967 song "Love Life" and hated it, due to its positive messaging contradicting both her destructo views and the views of her father, but forgave Nasty due to liking his trousers and believing his views in the song were a result of heavy tea consumption. After she and Nasty became engaged, Chastity attended the recording sessions of The Triangular Album in late 1968 and The Get Up and Go Sessions (which later became Let It Rot) in January 1969. This caused tension between the other Rutles, as there had previously been none of their wives or girlfriends at recording sessions. Because of this, many have, incorrectly perhaps, credited Chastity with splitting up The Rutles, a crime worse than anything else conceivable.

Ron and Chastity

Chastity and Nasty's wedding

Chasity and Nasty were married on 20 March 1969 and soon released a series of 14 lithographs called "Bag One" depicting scenes from their honeymoon, eight of which were deemed indecent and most of which were banned and confiscated. Nasty changed his name by deed poll on 22 April 1969, adding "Hitler" as a middle name. Nasty's creative focus continued to move beyond the Rutles, and between 1968 and 1969 he and Chastity recorded three albums of experimental music together: Destructo Music No. 1: Two Mormons (1968), Destructo Music No. 2: Life with Willows (1969) and Destructo Album (1969). In 1969, they formed the Polyvinyl Wicker Trio, releasing Live Peas in Toronto 1969. She inspired the 1969 Rutles song "The Ballad of Ron and Chastity", which was one of their number one singles and their last UK hit.

After Nasty left the Rutles, Chastity helped with his solo career by producing several of his albums and providing her screeching voice on several songs. In return, Nasty helped Chastity produce her screeching solo albums and played guitar on several of them. Chastity and Nasty moved to New York in August 1971 and immediately embraced US radical left politics. The 1972 political themed album Some Lunch in Rutland City, on which Chastity performed two tracks solo and several with Nasty, received scathing reviews and performed poorly commercially. Chastity and Nasty's political activism was met with criticism by some, who pointed out the irony of Nasty claiming to support peace but being married to a nazi. As Nasty was about to record Mine Games in 1973, he and Chastity decided to separate. They later got back together.

In 1980 Chastity and Nasty moved back to the UK. Later that year Nasty came out of retirement briefly to release his comeback album Triple Ecstasy, but re-retired shortly thereafter. Sufficient additional material was recorded for a follow-up album Bilk and Money, which was released in 1984. Both these albums had songs performed by both Chastity and Nasty. In 1981, Chastity and Hitler collaborated on the song "Goose Stepping On Thin Ice". In a 1966 interview Nasty revealed that Chastity "gave up all that Nazi stuff, because everyone does daft things when they're young".

Chastity and Nasty remained musically and politically active throughout the remainder of their marriage, which ended in 2019 after Nasty's death, which left Chastity and the surviving Rutles shocked and stunned. Chastity started The Ron Nasty Estate and has overseen several releases, including a super deluxe version of Nasty's solo album Ron Nasty/Polyvinyl Wicker Trio. As Nasty's widow, Chastity has given her approval on Rutles releases in his name.

Nasty's relationship with Chastity is seen as the start of a curse involving Rutle members either falling in love with, or having close friendships with, foreign politicians (Dirk married Natalia Poklonskaya and befriended Vladimir Putin, and Stig O'Hara had a close friendship with the supreme leaders in The Kim Dynasty), making Barry Wom the only Rutle to be unaffected by this curse.

Discography[]

Solo[]

  • Chastity/Polywicker Vinyl Trio (1970)
  • Gnat (1971)
  • Most Definitely Limited University (1973)
  • Rutting the Space (1973)
  • Season of Ass (1981)
  • It's Okay (I See Hurricanes) (1982)
  • Starpeas (1985)
  • Diving (1996)
  • A Lorry (1997)
  • Blueprint for The Fourth Reich (2001)
  • Between My Feet and The Sea (2009)
  • Take Me To Rutland (2013)
  • Snorezone (2017)

With Ron Nasty[]

Bibliography[]

Aubergine (1964)

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