I'll embed a video at the end of this post that Paul narrates.) (There's an amazing story behind that “offer” as Paul and John were actually watching that “SNL” show together in the Dakota in New York City, John's home. Techsurvey 2023 Results How are radio listeners using new technologies? See the results of the industry's largest online survey!Īnd seemingly from the moment the Fab Four broke up, musical circles started humming with speculation about a reunion, even humorously proposed a couple years later by “Saturday Night Live” executive producer, Lorne Michaels, who in 1976, satirically offered those mop tops from Liverpool a $3,000 check to reunite on the show. They were cultural icons who set the standard for their dress, their hair, and their breezy style. The Beatles weren't just musical Pied Pipers. And after a mere six years in that white hot spotlight, the greatest rock n' roll band of our lifetimes broke up.īut with no Internet, no social media, and the “mainstream media” not providing the kind of coverage we're used to now, it all came as something of a shock to the Baby Boomers of that era. Looking at John, Paul, George, and Ringo, you can see the toll the stress of being Beatles put on their lives. “Get Back” was an ordeal just to watch, so it must have been more brutal to endure it in real life. There had been rumors of disharmony, boredom, deceit, and delusion for some time, especially around John and Yoko who were clearly going their own way.īeatles fans had their look behind the scenes a couple Thanksgivings ago – that 9-hour 3-part documentary produced by Disney and directed by Peter Jackson that painstakingly watched John, Paul, George, and Ringo disintegrate right before our very eyes. If you were someone “of age” back then – and I most certainly was – the news came as a cultural explosion, the end of an era.
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