Two of Us (2000 film)

Two of Us is a 2000 television drama and the third original VH1 film which offers a dramatized account of April 24, 1976, six years after the breakup of The Beatles and the day in which Lorne Michaels made a statement on Saturday Night Live offering The Beatles 3,000 to reunite on his program.

There was great public demand for a Beatles reunion during the 1970s. For example, in September 1976, American promoter Sid Bernstein, who had booked many of the Beatles historic American appearances in 19641966, published a fullpage ad in the New York Times publicly requesting the group to reunite and offering millions of dollars. On April 24, 1976, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels parodied such offers with an onair announcement that he would pay the Beatles 3000 if they would perform on his program together. He joked, divide the money up any way you want. If you want to give less to Ringo, thats up to you. John Lennon discussed the Saturday Night Live episode, as well as his relationship with McCartney, in a September 1980 interview for PlayboyPaul McCartney also remembered the event for an interview John said, We should go down there. We should go down now and just do it. It was one of those moments where we said, Lets not and say we did. ........

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