John Lennon and Paul McCartney virtually had a Beatles reunion gig 50 years in the past | Music | Entertainment | EUROtoday

In April 1976, The Beatles have been six years into their solo careers, having break up after the discharge of their Let It Be album.

Yet, lower than a yr into his tenure as producer of Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels had the balls to attempt to orchestrate a reunion on the present

Speaking on to the tens of millions watching at residence, on April 24 (50 years in the past this week), he provided The Beatles $3000 ($20,000 immediately) to go on SNL and carry out three of their basic tracks.

Little did he know that simply 22 blocks away in New York City, Paul McCartney was visiting John Lennon on the latter’s Dakota constructing condo.

The two Beatles have been watching SNL (which begins at 11:30pm) and ended up “laughing their asses off” at Lorne waving the NBC-approved cheque on the digital camera.

According to Tom Doyle’s Man On The Run about Macca within the 70s, John mentioned: “Wouldn’t it be funny if we went down? We should go down now and just do it?” They virtually referred to as for a cab, however contemplating the time of evening and it was a time off, they determined to name it an evening. Nevertheless, George Harrison confirmed up a couple of months later for the SNL chilly open, attempting to bag the cheque for himself.

Lorne drily tells Harrison within the clip: “I thought that you would understand, you know, that it was $3,000 for four people, that it would just be $750 for each of you. I mean, as far as I’m concerned, I mean, you could have the full $3,000…” So as a part of the skit, the Quiet Beatle agreed to an “extra $250” for saying “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”