Beatles ’76 pt3

What this episode covers

Live from New York, it's the Nerk Twins! It's the Spring of 1976 and Paul McCartney is on the verge of conquering America once again with his band Wings. Where The Beatles made history in 1964, Paul was poised to do so again, this time on his own merits and with the support of the band that many had laughed off as a forgettable side-project some four years earlier. Paul's newfound success was a lucky (and well-earned) twist of fate, but the fortune most surprising to Macca was perhaps the newfound friendship he enjoyed with his old bandmate and songwriting partner John Lennon. The two had rekindled a jovial relationship that most would have considered dead in the water earlier in the decade - but against all odds John and Paul found themselves on friendly footing in the spring of 1976. So friendly, in fact, that a reunion between the two on national television very nearly happened one windy April night - on NBC's hit new show Saturday Night. Lennon and McCartney sat giggling in John's Dakota apartment building as SNL's Lorne Michaels offered the former Beatles a measly sum to reunite on his program - a gag that proved nearly too tempting to resist for John and Paul. Though the pair ultimately decided not to take the trip down to Rockefeller plaza to accept the offer, many a laugh was shared, and it appearing an honest-to-goodness reunion wouldn't be too far-fetched to conceive of. But the next day, when an excited Paul showed up with a guitar in the hopes of writing songs with his friend John, the fates were less kind. April 26th, 1976 would go down in history as the last date in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney would see each other live and in person ever again...<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>