The REAL ABSURB situation that almost reunited The Beatles was at Eric Clapton's wedding to Patti Boyd. George, Paul, and Ringo did jam together at the reception. Why wasnt John & Yoko there? Neither Patti nor Eric invited them, each thinking the other had already done so. Think about it - now THATS absurd!
@@edmondlau511 ???? Why would Yoko make the situation awkward? You wanna talk about awkward, George was invited and his ex-wife was the one marrying Eric Clapton! THATS AWKWARD!
This is perhaps the funniest and most historic gag in the history of popular music. I was watching that night and had they shown up, it would have been too hilarious for a lot of us to take. I know MY head would've exploded. I'm sure there would've been a few heads exploding in the studio audience too. Good effort Lorne Michaels.Great post, well done!
I have long wondered how the Beatles would have sounded during the disco era. I imagine they would have incorporated at least some elements of that style. It would have been great I bet.
@@lamper2 But the Stones aren't the Beatles. Maybe even George and John would have been opposed to that sort of music and created music directly opposed to it. Hard to say.
Just before John's death all four Beatles agreed to a documentary television special which was to have featured a mini-concert at its conclusion. So sad it never happened
@@beatlejim64 Yes I know. They were getting serious about it in the last year of John's life. All four of them gave the project thumbs up. We would have had the anthology back in 81 or 82.
I watched the show live and it was a funny skit. It surely would have been the finest TV moment ever, had they shown up. But looking back, I'm glad they didn't. None of them would have had any peace after that, as the pressure to reunite would have been far more incessant. It was nice to learn at the time that John and Paul were actually hanging out together and not bitter enemies.
They were together more than 7 years, although it was their recording career as the Beatles that lasted a little over 7 years. John, Paul and George had been together since 1957/58 in a group and John started the group in 1956 with various names used and the first was the Quarrymen and with a few other members from the quarrybank school in Liverpool that John went to.
Still quite short compared to how (even with some changes in members) bands like Rollings Stones, Aerosmith, Def Leppard or Chicago have stayed together for much longer years.
There was another occasion when the Beatles almost got together. Years ago I read Eric Clapton's book and he tells that on a birthday at his house, Paul, George and Ringo showed up and even had a jam session. He says in the book that he forgot to invite John, or something like that, and that for a little while he couldn't get the Beatles together one last time.
But where were George and ringo that night? If they were in England which they probably were it was definitely not a cab ride away from a Beatles reunion
I interviewed Paul in 1999 and asked him about this situation. John was the one wanting to do it that night and he called the limo around. Paul said it was him who chickened out and said you know it's late and we should rehearse quickly. John said ok but then Paul decided they should do it some other time. He said, that next time never happened unfortunately. He was actually shocked I had heard about the rumor of the two of them.
My ex-girlfriend told me ( in 1988 ) that her record producing uncle almost reunited the Beatles. They would play an outdoor gig sometime in 1978, and he had three out of four Beatles signatures to agree to play, but apparently Paul had told him to f*** off over the phone because he was so successful with Wings at the time.. It's true that he was indeed a record producer ( 'Wasn't That a Party' and 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer' ), but whether or not the story she told me was true or not, I'm still not sure.
There was a made-for-TV movie about this in 2000 called "Two of Us", starring Aidan Quinn as McCartney and Jared Harris as Lennon. It was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who also directed the 1970 Beatles film Let it Be, which morphed into the recent Get Back series. It's a "what if" look at that day where Lennon and McCartney spent the day together and culminates with them watching the show together, and seriously contemplating going down to the studio and doing a few songs together. It ends when Yoko calls, and Lennon decides not to do it.
That was only two of the Beatles, not a reunion of the Beatles. You should have added that George actually did appear on the show later on and asked for his 1/4th.
4 times The Beatles came close to reuniting. The first was in '74 when John was planning on meeting Paul in New Orleans. Yoko put a stop to that. The second was Saturday Night Live. The third was Clapton's wedding. Paul, George, and Ringo jammed, but no one bothered to invite John. And the fourth time was kiboshed in 1980 by a man with a gun.
@@MarkMikelVideos I’m talking about Harrison but you’re right a Beatles reunion still would’ve been impossible to do without John I’m just mentioning George’s death as well
@@michaelharrington75 To be honest I've heard the same thing. When Paul McCartney signed a deal with Columbia in the States in 1979, the contract "allegedly" had a clause which stated he could record with John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr with any record company of their choosing. So in that sense the door was open. The only other thing I read was Jack Douglas (Lennon's producer on Double Fantasy) said John wanted Yoko to have a solo career based on the success of "Kiss Kiss Kiss" at Studio 54 and other dance clubs, so that he could possibly record with the other three. They DID have plans to each contribute to Ringo's 1981 album "Stop And Smell The Roses" which technically would be a reunion of sorts.
He was certainly due to record with Ringo in January 1981. I've read that he was apparently going to get together with Paul to try and write songs. I've also heard that he wanted to stage a Beatle reunion as the ultimate climax to his proposed tour to support Double Fantasy and/or Milk And Honey. As nice a daydream that might have been, neither Paul, George, Ringo or Yoko have ever confirmed or even commented on this. Jack Douglas has made a few comments saying a Beatle reunion was on the cards, but again this has never been confirmed.
I read somewhere that the offer was made on the programme towards its end and John & Paul realised that they wouldn't have got there in time. If the offer had been made at the start it might have been realistic.
Yeah...no two of those four guys could by themselves "reunite the Beatles"...but still, it would have been enough, and an amazing thing in itself, to see J&P show up even if they just mugged to the cameras for a few minutes before leaving.
I had heard that Paul was actually with John that night watching it together. They thought about doing it because it wasn't that far away, but they didn't because John was tired.
@@welltoucansamatthatgame I also heard that Paul was with John, watching SNL, and they thought about doing it because it wasn't that far. I also heard all of this from the narrator in the video who repeated it many times 😉
In 1968-69 with people like Eric Clapton, Nicky Hopkins and Billy Preston joining the band in the studio, they had a chance to expand the band into a credible live experience but it was not within them to do that “The Concert For Bangla Desh” was exactly that… as was the “The Concert For George” in 2002… Anyone who believes that having John, Paul, George and Ringo ONLY on a stage being a credible Beatles Reunion does not understand how music and musicians work…
…but John, Paul, George, and ringo WERE the Beatles? Every artist has collaborators in the studio, people they work with etc. other than trying and failing to sound smarter that others, what point are you trying to make exactly? The Beatles were a band of 4. They had collaborators. But they were a band of 4. Just them on stage would be a credible reunion. Otherwise let’s make the argument that any band that goes on stage isn’t really the band going on stage because they aren’t using every other musician that helped them in the studio.
@@Gino565 The point I'm trying to make is that, after 1966, there was never going to be "just them on stage"... Bands don't work like that... Music doesn't work like that... The one time they TRIED to get "the band of 4" to rehearse/play live in January 1969, they failed, George quit and it took inviting Billy Preston and his presence to galvanise them into a credible performance, once, on the roof... Wanting them to have been limited to being just a "band of 4" onstage and be the performing fleas of yore... a 2 guitar, bass, drum quartet playing "She Loves You" and "Twist and Shout" forever would have been very unfair to them as musicians, performers and people...
@@noelharris5488 I've heard this story before but the way I heard it, John & Paul were actually about to head to the studio and Yoko put a stop to it. Is that what you're referring to about it being slightly off?
I heard and read years ago that there were serious talks with authorities in New York about a free concert in Central Park around 1977-1980, or so. I believe Ringo is one of those that has commented on this rumor at some point. He also, if I'm not mistaken, told Howard Stern (?) that the band almost reunited for one gig. Around the same time, John was murdered, so - alas - the event never came to be, but had it gone I well, I like to think that it would have resulted in some new music.
Even Lennon realized Eastman would've been a better choice!. Jagger tried to warn him but....stubborn John wouldn't! Lorne didn'r " mastermind anything. That SNL segment was a JOKE. He was as suprised as anyone to find out years later that it almost happened.
Anyone hear of the man who claimed to have entered an alternate dimension of when the Beatles never broke up? He brought back albums that they recorded after 1970. Who believes this?
Nice story, but the Beatles Were John, Paul, George and Ringo. Not only 2 of them. What about the times Were John and Ringo, or George and Ringo (also live for Bangladesh), or John and George or Paul and Ringo were together in studio. Even John and Paul played together in 1974. However John and Paul in tv is not a Beatles Réunion.
the announcer failed to mention how Lorne told George that it was $3000 for FOUR of you.....$750 EACH.....George said, That's pretty chintzy (thinking he could collect the whole $3000. That's when Lorne said he would give him $250 MORE on top of the $750 if George would say, "LIVE, IT"S SATURDAY NIGHT!!" George then turned his head and looked directly at the camera and said it! It was really funny! I was watching that night. Later George and Paul Simon did a duet singing George's Beatles hit "HERE COMES THE SUN" and Paul Simon's "HOMEWARD BOUND" both playing acoustic guitars. It was lovely.
I don't think it was anything close to a possible Beatles reunion. It was basically John and Paul almost went down there as a joke. I don't think George or Ringo were involved.
The Beatles definitely would have reunited at some point in the 80's had Lennon never died. We have to remember they were completely burnt out by the end of the 60's and all of them needed a long break. Most of the people thay vrew up on the Beatles were approaching young adulthood by then and nostalgia would be kicking in.
The Decca Audition was in Feb 1962. Paul announced the split in Dec 1970. All included that is almost 9 full year's, and they were called The Beatles a year before that. I'm calling it a pretty decent decade.
This video is incorrect saying that one of the reasons that the Beatles broke up in 1970 was the "relentless touring," because they stopped touring in 1966.
On second thoughts... They could also have destroyed their incredible legacies. From the writers of their biographies, it is clear that they were inebriated at the time (Yoko apparently found five empty wine bottles the next day), so they could have made fools of themselves on the show.🤷♂
One other point... If you listen to RINGO and "Goodnight Vienna" they were (almost) Beatles reunions. All four Beatles wrote music for those albums and performed on them. Unfortunately, they were not always together in the same recording studios.
I was their when they set foot here and I am giving my opinion, it changed the youth foundation and not to the good. Life in America was so much better, post Ww2 till 1963. That’s my opinion of course and I feel the same about the computer age on on youth.
I don't know, $3,000 was a lot of money back then. The George Harrison skit was funny. There is a scene with Lorne telling George the $3,000 is for all four of you.
They almost got together for John's song "I'm the Greatest" on Ringo's self-titled 1973 album. It was supposedly going to happen, but Paul couldn't get permission to come to the US because of drug issues in the past. If this is true, then it tends to vitiate the possibility of this SNL story being true. If Paul couldn't get a Visa to be a part of Ringo's album, how could he have one to be on SNL? I don't know, but Paul DID hang out with Lennon in the seventies.
The way I heard it was that the producer recorded the three Beatles (John, George and Ringo) and then took the master tapes to a studio where Paul could record his instruments...
Interesting. But the Beatles were four not two, hence Fab Four. This entire premise is borne from the idea that John and Paul went down to the studio. So, no story. But it would’ve been nice to see John and Paul reunited publicly. There’s nothing like the internet to talk utter bollocks.
Interested? There is a book, in french, published in 2022, about this fantasy: Title: The Beatles are back! Will George Harrison be part of the band? With an historic concert in 1972 in a particular place... Author is Arnaud Hudelot
A long drawn out "click-bait" story which uses the John and Paul visit to suggest the entire Beatles were going to reunite. George and Ringo would have to be part of it and they weren't around. But that doesn't matter as the intent is to get views, likes and cash.
Well John and Paul reuniting had already happened in 1974. "A Toot and a Snore In 74". Listen to that and be glad they didn't. Also it almost happened during the recording of Venus and Mars. John was supposed to go to the studio but when Yoko found out she called John home, ending his "Lost Weekend" with May Pang and destroying the chance.
I think they would have reunited if John Lennon hadn't been so mercilessly gunned down in front of his wife. R.I.P. John Lennon. R.I.P. George Harrison.
Old yarn, BS title. No reunion ever planned with the four lads from nevermore. Better luck next time. I'm sure there will always be plenty of opportunity in the future for a middle school editor.
This is ridiculous they did not get back together they were burned out they were tired of each other they did not like the music that each wrote they hated maxwell silver hammer they did not want to do Hari Krishna music they had a falling out over the manager that Lennon, Harrison, Starr wanted .They were tired of having no freedom and being harassed by fans .Lennon and yoko were on heroin. They did not want to be sidemen for Paul. They were bored with the whole Beatles thing and the constant questions about when are they getting back together.Sorry it's over and never going to happen ever .
Look I know revisionism is popular in the USA and Paul now states he wrote several Lennon songs but it will always be John, Paul, George, and Ringo in that order😎
The REAL ABSURB situation that almost reunited The Beatles was at Eric Clapton's wedding to Patti Boyd. George, Paul, and Ringo did jam together at the reception. Why wasnt John & Yoko there? Neither Patti nor Eric invited them, each thinking the other had already done so. Think about it - now THATS absurd!
Yeah, I read about that in Clapton's autobiography.
Or was the truth that neither wanted Yoko there to make a happy occasion awkward
@@edmondlau511 ???? Why would Yoko make the situation awkward? You wanna talk about awkward, George was invited and his ex-wife was the one marrying Eric Clapton! THATS AWKWARD!
@@BlackAndWhiteBand Lol, Lord. 😂
@@BlackAndWhiteBand Because Yoko makes everything awkward.
This is perhaps the funniest and most historic gag in the history of popular music. I was watching that night and had they shown up, it would have been too hilarious for a lot of us to take. I know MY head would've exploded. I'm sure there would've been a few heads exploding in the studio audience too. Good effort Lorne Michaels.Great post, well done!
And now Lorne Michaels is one of Paul's very best friends
I have long wondered how the Beatles would have sounded during the disco era. I imagine they would have incorporated at least some elements of that style. It would have been great I bet.
It’d probably sound a lot like Goodnight Tonight by Wings (Paul’s band)
The Stones did it…Emotional Rescue & much of the material from that album has held up over time)
The Stones released Hot Stuff- did you like THAT? Neither did I
@@lamper2 But the Stones aren't the Beatles. Maybe even George and John would have been opposed to that sort of music and created music directly opposed to it. Hard to say.
John thought Disco was Great. He said so on the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder.
Just before John's death all four Beatles agreed to a documentary television special which was to have featured a mini-concert at its conclusion. So sad it never happened
That turned out to be "The Beatles Anthology". That had been on the back burner since The Beatles broke up in April 1970.
@@beatlejim64
Yes I know. They were getting serious about it in the last year of John's life. All four of them gave the project thumbs up. We would have had the anthology back in 81 or 82.
My favorite band is the Beatles but my favorite music is 70s. The Beatles breaking up before they got into their 70s phase is so so criminal
I love the way you think. Ditto!
I watched the show live and it was a funny skit. It surely would have been the finest TV moment ever, had they shown up. But looking back, I'm glad they didn't. None of them would have had any peace after that, as the pressure to reunite would have been far more incessant. It was nice to learn at the time that John and Paul were actually hanging out together and not bitter enemies.
They were together more than 7 years, although it was their recording career as the Beatles that lasted a little over 7 years. John, Paul and George had been together since 1957/58 in a group and John started the group in 1956 with various names used and the first was the Quarrymen and with a few other members from the quarrybank school in Liverpool that John went to.
Still quite short compared to how (even with some changes in members) bands like Rollings Stones, Aerosmith, Def Leppard or Chicago have stayed together for much longer years.
There was another occasion when the Beatles almost got together. Years ago I read Eric Clapton's book and he tells that on a birthday at his house, Paul, George and Ringo showed up and even had a jam session. He says in the book that he forgot to invite John, or something like that, and that for a little while he couldn't get the Beatles together one last time.
In a more recent interview Paul said that the story had morphed over the years. He said that they were together the weekend before that show aired.
George would be the hardest to sway into a reunion, regardless of what John and Paul wanted.
George was the musical guest that night.
Not according to George's wife Olivia.
But where were George and ringo that night? If they were in England which they probably were it was definitely not a cab ride away from a Beatles reunion
I interviewed Paul in 1999 and asked him about this situation. John was the one wanting to do it that night and he called the limo around. Paul said it was him who chickened out and said you know it's late and we should rehearse quickly. John said ok but then Paul decided they should do it some other time. He said, that next time never happened unfortunately. He was actually shocked I had heard about the rumor of the two of them.
My ex-girlfriend told me ( in 1988 ) that her record producing uncle almost reunited the Beatles. They would play an outdoor gig sometime in 1978, and he had three out of four Beatles signatures to agree to play, but apparently Paul had told him to f*** off over the phone because he was so successful with Wings at the time.. It's true that he was indeed a record producer ( 'Wasn't That a Party' and 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer' ), but whether or not the story she told me was true or not, I'm still not sure.
And wings in my opinion only had like 3 good songs lol
I do feel that if John had not died they woukd have done LIVE AID in 1985 with Queen and other acts That would of been so special.
There was a made-for-TV movie about this in 2000 called "Two of Us", starring Aidan Quinn as McCartney and Jared Harris as Lennon. It was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who also directed the 1970 Beatles film Let it Be, which morphed into the recent Get Back series. It's a "what if" look at that day where Lennon and McCartney spent the day together and culminates with them watching the show together, and seriously contemplating going down to the studio and doing a few songs together. It ends when Yoko calls, and Lennon decides not to do it.
What about George and Ringo? It wouldn't have been a Beatles reunion without them
That was only two of the Beatles, not a reunion of the Beatles. You should have added that George actually did appear on the show later on and asked for his 1/4th.
John and Paul once nearly formed a supergroup with David Bowie
4 times The Beatles came close to reuniting.
The first was in '74 when John was planning on meeting Paul in New Orleans. Yoko put a stop to that.
The second was Saturday Night Live.
The third was Clapton's wedding. Paul, George, and Ringo jammed, but no one bothered to invite John.
And the fourth time was kiboshed in 1980 by a man with a gun.
Don’t forget the fifth time in 2001 which was kiboshed by cancer
@@themouseproject4709 Lennon was already dead way before 2001. He was shot in 1980.
@@MarkMikelVideos I’m talking about Harrison but you’re right a Beatles reunion still would’ve been impossible to do without John I’m just mentioning George’s death as well
@The mouse project I see. Also, George may have beaten the cancer had he not been stabbed 40 times in 1999.
They were about to reunite sometime in 1981....paperwork was already filed. But something happened in late 1980 that changed that forever....
Lol. What paperwork was filed? First time I've ever heard such a thing. None of the Beatles ever mentioned it. I don't think so.
I felt that a reunion might happen sometime in the early eighties after John Lennon got back in the game. But it was just a hunch. What paperwork?
@@michaelharrington75 To be honest I've heard the same thing. When Paul McCartney signed a deal with Columbia in the States in 1979, the contract "allegedly" had a clause which stated he could record with John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr with any record company of their choosing. So in that sense the door was open.
The only other thing I read was Jack Douglas (Lennon's producer on Double Fantasy) said John wanted Yoko to have a solo career based on the success of "Kiss Kiss Kiss" at Studio 54 and other dance clubs, so that he could possibly record with the other three. They DID have plans to each contribute to Ringo's 1981 album "Stop And Smell The Roses" which technically would be a reunion of sorts.
He was certainly due to record with Ringo in January 1981.
I've read that he was apparently going to get together with Paul to try and write songs.
I've also heard that he wanted to stage a Beatle reunion as the ultimate climax to his proposed tour to support Double Fantasy and/or Milk And Honey.
As nice a daydream that might have been, neither Paul, George, Ringo or Yoko have ever confirmed or even commented on this.
Jack Douglas has made a few comments saying a Beatle reunion was on the cards, but again this has never been confirmed.
And think of all the music that they did after the split up that may never have been.
I read somewhere that the offer was made on the programme towards its end and John & Paul realised that they wouldn't have got there in time. If the offer had been made at the start it might have been realistic.
It wouldn't have been The Beatles reuniting, it would have been John & Paul collecting their funny check.
Yes, but were George and Ringo in New York that night too?
Yeah...no two of those four guys could by themselves "reunite the Beatles"...but still, it would have been enough, and an amazing thing in itself, to see J&P show up even if they just mugged to the cameras for a few minutes before leaving.
I thought George was the musical guest that night.
@@bobtausworthe Not THAT night, but it was a setup for his appearance.
I had heard that Paul was actually with John that night watching it together. They thought about doing it because it wasn't that far away, but they didn't because John was tired.
That is indeed what was said in the video above.
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@@welltoucansamatthatgame I also heard that Paul was with John, watching SNL, and they thought about doing it because it wasn't that far. I also heard all of this from the narrator in the video who repeated it many times 😉
It would have been the coolest thing to see John & Paul walk on and upstage Lorne; and negotiate the price up to $4,000 for even splits!
In 1968-69
with people like
Eric Clapton, Nicky Hopkins
and Billy Preston joining the band in the studio, they had a chance to expand the band into a credible live experience but it was not within them to do that
“The Concert For Bangla Desh”
was exactly that…
as was the
“The Concert For George”
in 2002…
Anyone who believes that having John, Paul, George and Ringo ONLY on a stage being a credible Beatles Reunion does not understand how music and musicians work…
…but John, Paul, George, and ringo WERE the Beatles? Every artist has collaborators in the studio, people they work with etc. other than trying and failing to sound smarter that others, what point are you trying to make exactly? The Beatles were a band of 4. They had collaborators. But they were a band of 4. Just them on stage would be a credible reunion. Otherwise let’s make the argument that any band that goes on stage isn’t really the band going on stage because they aren’t using every other musician that helped them in the studio.
@@Gino565
The point
I'm trying to make is that,
after 1966,
there was never going
to be
"just them on stage"...
Bands don't work like that...
Music doesn't work like that...
The one time they TRIED
to get "the band of 4" to
rehearse/play live
in January 1969, they failed,
George quit and it took inviting
Billy Preston and his presence
to galvanise them into a credible performance, once,
on the roof...
Wanting them to
have been limited to being
just a "band of 4" onstage
and be the performing fleas of yore...
a 2 guitar, bass, drum quartet playing
"She Loves You"
and "Twist and Shout" forever
would have been very unfair
to them as musicians,
performers and people...
The Beatles isn`t Rock And Roll,they`re Rock!
Of course John’s first comment on the air should have been “It’s only us two can we still have the whole $3000”?
What if ?? Two could have turned up hypothetically but they'd have still been two down so that's not even close.
This moment also inspired The Rutles movie and soundtrack.
When Stig met Nasty
U do know this story is just slightly off
@@noelharris5488 I've heard this story before but the way I heard it, John & Paul were actually about to head to the studio and Yoko put a stop to it. Is that what you're referring to about it being slightly off?
Had it happened we'd have all been shocked, and stunned!!
Oh, Ringo [Starr] ! Thanks for the clarification.
Grazie mille per il video...loro sono i migliori ❤
I heard and read years ago that there were serious talks with authorities in New York about a free concert in Central Park around 1977-1980, or so. I believe Ringo is one of those that has commented on this rumor at some point. He also, if I'm not mistaken, told Howard Stern (?) that the band almost reunited for one gig. Around the same time, John was murdered, so - alas - the event never came to be, but had it gone I well, I like to think that it would have resulted in some new music.
As usual John and Paul don't even consider if George would want to work with them again. Ringo will play with anybody.
To say this almost reunited the Beatles is what is ABSURD. Even if all 4 had agreed to do the show, playing 3 songs together is hardly a reunion.
Even Lennon realized Eastman would've been a better choice!. Jagger tried to warn him but....stubborn John wouldn't! Lorne didn'r " mastermind anything. That SNL segment was a JOKE. He was as suprised as anyone to find out years later that it almost happened.
To probably point out what others have written below - two out of four isn't a reunion.
Anyone hear of the man who claimed to have entered an alternate dimension of when the Beatles never broke up? He brought back albums that they recorded after 1970. Who believes this?
That night was the last time John and Paul were physically together.
Nice story, but the Beatles Were John, Paul, George and Ringo. Not only 2 of them. What about the times Were John and Ringo, or George and Ringo (also live for Bangladesh), or John and George or Paul and Ringo were together in studio. Even John and Paul played together in 1974. However John and Paul in tv is not a Beatles Réunion.
the announcer failed to mention how Lorne told George that it was $3000 for FOUR of you.....$750 EACH.....George said, That's pretty chintzy (thinking he could collect the whole $3000. That's when Lorne said he would give him $250 MORE on top of the $750 if George would say, "LIVE, IT"S SATURDAY NIGHT!!" George then turned his head and looked directly at the camera and said it! It was really funny! I was watching that night. Later George and Paul Simon did a duet singing George's Beatles hit "HERE COMES THE SUN" and Paul Simon's "HOMEWARD BOUND" both playing acoustic guitars. It was lovely.
"Been thinking about quitting The Beatles"
-John Lennon
#Yoko
Lennon and McCartney playing on SNL is not reuniting The Beatles or anything close to it. This is click bait.
I remember discussions of a Beatles reunion in 1979/1980.. then a madman's bullet ended that possibility
I’d say call this a TV reunion. It wasn’t reuniting. They had seen each other on an off since they split.
I don't think it was anything close to a possible Beatles reunion. It was basically John and Paul almost went down there as a joke. I don't think George or Ringo were involved.
yeah - just imagine how famous they could be if they had reunited. Now we barely remember their names..
Wasn’t that one dude in Wings?
@@papadopp3870 You mean Denny Laine? I get confused sometimes.....
@@jimpowell4015 No, no, Denny Laine’s the guy from the Moody Blues. I think you’re thinking of Linda McCartney?
Not remember their names ? Man what a stupid thing to say
@@jimpowell4015 Denny Laine! Exactly. He was the one of the broke lads sleeping out in the bairn? He is the answer to: name a Moody Blue with Wings.
If it would have happened, I'm sure it would have had a similar impact as the current ABBA album.
The Best times the Beatles
if they reunited they will try to playing disco music like Bee Gees or Village People or pop ballad songs like ABBA with four men to sing
There’d prob be world peace
🌎 ✌️ ❤
The Beatles definitely would have reunited at some point in the 80's had Lennon never died. We have to remember they were completely burnt out by the end of the 60's and all of them needed a long break. Most of the people thay vrew up on the Beatles were approaching young adulthood by then and nostalgia would be kicking in.
I wish they had reunited
It was 8 years, not 7. Ringo joined in 1962 and stayed till they broke up.
The Decca Audition was in Feb 1962. Paul announced the split in Dec 1970. All included that is almost 9 full year's, and they were called The Beatles a year before that. I'm calling it a pretty decent decade.
Hold on John and Paul aren't the band!
Getting technical here, but John and Paul were the band when they recorded, The Ballad of John and Yoko. George and Ringo were nowhere to be found.
@@THOMMGBok sure.
This video is incorrect saying that one of the reasons that the Beatles broke up in 1970 was the "relentless touring," because they stopped touring in 1966.
Broadcasted? Isn't the past tense of broadcast actually broadcast?
They could have changed the world (for the better) a second time.
On second thoughts... They could also have destroyed their incredible legacies. From the writers of their biographies, it is clear that they were inebriated at the time (Yoko apparently found five empty wine bottles the next day), so they could have made fools of themselves on the show.🤷♂
One other point... If you listen to RINGO and "Goodnight Vienna" they were (almost) Beatles reunions. All four Beatles wrote music for those albums and performed on them. Unfortunately, they were not always together in the same recording studios.
"Too tired"? More likely, too stoned. [Not my own idea - I saw it on this story previously].
Almost is a great word...reminds me of that time I almost died...
It would have been great but I don’t know how good of a performance they could give without rehearsing. Even the best professionals have to rehearse.
I was their when they set foot here and I am giving my opinion, it changed the youth foundation and not to the good. Life in America was so much better, post Ww2 till 1963. That’s my opinion of course and I feel the same about the computer age on on youth.
a lot of that is not true, john and thought about it. but they never contacted george and ringo about it.
I don't know, $3,000 was a lot of money back then.
The George Harrison skit was funny. There is a scene with Lorne telling George the $3,000 is for all four of you.
wasn't there a Grammy award show when three of them were there? Not together, but in the audience and as a presenter separately..
They almost got together for John's song "I'm the Greatest" on Ringo's self-titled 1973 album. It was supposedly going to happen, but Paul couldn't get permission to come to the US because of drug issues in the past. If this is true, then it tends to vitiate the possibility of this SNL story being true. If Paul couldn't get a Visa to be a part of Ringo's album, how could he have one to be on SNL? I don't know, but Paul DID hang out with Lennon in the seventies.
The way I heard it was that the producer recorded the three Beatles (John, George and Ringo) and then took the master tapes to a studio where Paul could record his instruments...
Interesting. But the Beatles were four not two, hence Fab Four. This entire premise is borne from the idea that John and Paul went down to the studio. So, no story. But it would’ve been nice to see John and Paul reunited publicly. There’s nothing like the internet to talk utter bollocks.
This is amazing.
Maybe Micheals should’ve offered $4K…
It would’ve been glorious!
What if?
What's absurd is you putting on the front cover a photo and saying it's john Lennon...that's not original john Lennon
If only …….❤❤❤❤
Where was George and Ringo ?
There’s too many facts this guy got wrong to even comment on.
I'd take that check.
Interested? There is a book, in french, published in 2022, about this fantasy: Title: The Beatles are back! Will George Harrison be part of the band?
With an historic concert in 1972 in a particular place...
Author is Arnaud Hudelot
A long drawn out "click-bait" story which uses the John and Paul visit to suggest the entire Beatles were going to reunite. George and Ringo would have to be part of it and they weren't around. But that doesn't matter as the intent is to get views, likes and cash.
Lot longer than 7 years
Take a shot every time are he repeats the summary with slightly different wording.
Well John and Paul reuniting had already happened in 1974. "A Toot and a Snore In 74". Listen to that and be glad they didn't. Also it almost happened during the recording of Venus and Mars. John was supposed to go to the studio but when Yoko found out she called John home, ending his "Lost Weekend" with May Pang and destroying the chance.
Totally not true. There was no talk of reuniting the band.
Wow the ABSURD thing is how overblown this vid is about SNL. Way over the top. There were sone other actual moments that were almost as well.
Just John and Paul isn't The Beatles reunited is it?
So Paul and John lost out on $1500!!!
too little
too late
I think they would have reunited if John Lennon hadn't been so mercilessly gunned down in front of his wife.
R.I.P. John Lennon.
R.I.P. George Harrison.
They would have never played...
Old yarn, BS title. No reunion ever planned with the four lads from nevermore. Better luck next time. I'm sure there will always be plenty of opportunity in the future for a middle school editor.
It was never close, they were all stoked on their new adventures. Great idea you have for youtube video, too bad it's B.S.
but it wasnt the beatles
Syracuse
John and Paul are NOT The Beatles
This is ridiculous they did not get back together they were burned out they were tired of each other they did not like the music that each wrote they hated maxwell silver hammer they did not want to do Hari Krishna music they had a falling out over the manager that Lennon, Harrison, Starr wanted .They were tired of having no freedom and being harassed by fans .Lennon and yoko were on heroin. They did not want to be sidemen for Paul. They were bored with the whole Beatles thing and the constant questions about when are they getting back together.Sorry it's over and never going to happen ever .
Look I know revisionism is popular in the USA and Paul now states he wrote several Lennon songs but it will always be John, Paul, George, and Ringo in that order😎
Relentless touring? The Beatles? Really?
A melhor dupla do mundo... 😎😎😎😎❤❤❤❤
This is NOT a "Beatles reunite" story. There are 4 Beatles not 2. This is click bait.
Bob Arum had offered The Beatles 50 million dollars. The Saturday Night sketch was a joke. If you are going to tell a story, tell it all.😢😮😅
god get to the point.