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Saturday Night Live Was Always About How to Live Without the Beatles

Lorne Michaels offers the Beatles $3000 to reunite on SNL

On April 24 1976, Lorne Michaels appeared on Saturday Night Live to offer The Beatles $3000 to reunite for a performance on his show. This was in response to a full-page ad in the New York Times offering them $1,000,000 to do a show in Shea Stadium (and/or elsewhere).

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