It's gone down in Beatles lore as one of the great what-ifs of all time. After the band turned down one promoter after another offering millions of dollars, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels came so close to finally convincing the Beatles to reunite -- well, two of them anyway: John Lennon and Paul McCartney. It was thanks to a hilarious stunt that Michaels pulled on an SNL broadcast 45 years ago, in 1976. This came just a few years after the events depicted in The Beatles: Get Back, the highly anticipated three-part docuseries from director Peter Jackson that lands on Disney Plus next week.
The Disney Plus series, consisting of three two-hour episodes, will track the creation of Let It Be, generally regarded as the band's messy, unpolished breakup album. Indeed, the group was so dissatisfied with how things ended that the musicians got together one more time afterward to record a proper farewell -- the elegiac, masterful album Abbey Road. And then, that was that. The greatest band of all time exited stage left. Each member went on to solo careers and enjoyed varying degrees of success. Meanwhile, "When are The Beatles getting back together?" became an annoyingly common refrain of the 1970s. And then Michaels came up with his hilarious gag.
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