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A few years after their breakup, The Beatles were offered a ridiculous sum of money for a reunion concert, but they made it into town because the opening act would have featured a shark.
That’s what Ringo Starr is revealing in a new interview with him. Sunday Mirror, discussing a “crazy offer” that he and the other Fab Four members received in 1976.
According to a report by Persons At the time, businessman Bill Sargent, a pioneer in pay-per-view events, offered the four $ 50 million to meet at a concert.
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“We spoke once. There was a crazy offer out there, ”Starr explained.
According to Starr, the group finally decided not to because of the opening act that Sargent had in mind: a man fighting a great white shark.
“We called each other to see what we thought,” Starr said, admitting that the shark was a deciding factor. “We decided not to because the opening act was a boy who bit a shark. So we think not. “
However, he admitted that until John Lennon’s death in 1980, followed by George Harrison’s in 2001, he had always hoped that the Beatles would reunite.
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“If John and George hadn’t died, surely there was a possibility of that. Paul and I are still on the road. John would still have been on the road, “he said. “I don’t know about George. We’d still be doing what we love to do. Perhaps separately, perhaps together. Nobody knows.”
In fact, Starr confessed that he had initially assumed that the breakup of The Beatles would be more a temporary pause than a permanent separation.
“When we finish Abbey Road I didn’t go thinking that that was the last album. I thought “we’ll be back in how many months and we’ll do another one.” Between times we actually broke up. No one left thinking ‘That’s it,’ ”he explained.
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“I didn’t leave the studio thinking that this would be the last album we would make. I never thought that. I also didn’t think it would be the last time we would tour together, “he added.
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