Interestingly, the Beatles for the most part got along quite well after the breakup. The helped out each other on their solo albums, and apparently met up when they happened to be in the same cities. Some of them did not get along with John's wife, Yoko Ono, but that's another story.
Off topic, but what the hey, while we're talking about Beatles trivia, and how well they got along post-breakup, and stuff we know, I'm a big fan of the original Saturday Night Live. In the first season, when it was still NBC's Saturday Night (there was a "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cossell" on ABC that same year) producer Lorne Michaels half-jokingly invited the Beatles to reunite on the show and to sweeten the deal, offered them the princely sum...of three...THOUSAND dollars!
"The check's made out to 'The Beatles,' you can split it up anyway you want...if you want to give Ringo less, that's up to you." A few weeks later, he upped the ante to a whopping $3,200.
While it was all done in good fun, Lorne Michales recognized that, in that spirit of the fun, any (all?) of the Beatles might show up to take him up on the offer and have an impromptu reunion. To that end, he'd often have his assistant/cousin Neil Levy in the lobby of 30 Rock so, were they to actually show up, there'd be no problem getting into the building and up to the 8th. floor. They'd stop anything and everythig were that to happen.
A pip dream? not necesarily. In one of his last interviews before his death (maybe THE last), John Lennon spoke about how he was in the Dakota, with a visiting Paul, and they were watching SNL during this time and talked about actually taking a trip to the studio and surprising the show with a couple of numbers. The only reason they didn't was exhaustion. It was late, they were tired, they chuckled about how cool it would be...but they didn't.
In related news, the following season when George Harrison was a musical guest, he & Lorne joked about the $3,200 offer, with Lorne telling George, "I thought it was understood that it was 3,200 for all four of you, it wouldn't be the same rate for just one," and Harrison accusing Lorne of being chintzy, but when Lorne said he'd get an extra couple of bucks for saying "Live From New York, it's Saturday Night," George turned to the camera and spoke the iconic lines.
DECADES later, with Alec Baldwin as the host & Paul McCartney as the musical guest, with NO other mention of this old old joke, there was an opening segment where Alec was walking around backstage, and he walked past Lorne as Paul as Lorne told Paul something along the lines of "I gave George all 3,200 with the understanding he'd divvy it up with the rest of you...I'm not responsible with what he did with it after that" I'm guessing I'm one of 7 people who watched the show that night and got it.
OK, back to Disney stuff.
