# The Beatles - when was their last reunion? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 14, 2015, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630 "2015-04-14T11:42:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/1 "2015-04-14T11:42:32Z")
By reunion, I don’t mean (necessarily) the last time they played together as a band in an recording studio or on stage, but rather: When (and where) was the last time John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, all four of them, met in person? ---
**Author:** ![upend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b3f665/32.png) [@upend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/upend)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/2 "2015-04-14T11:56:43Z")
I don’t think all 4 met again after they stopped recording. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/3 "2015-04-14T12:03:59Z")
From [this page](http://mentalfloss.com/article/27783/final-days-beatles): > [@](#): > > In the middle of September, the four Beatles gathered together for a business meeting at Apple Studios. It happened sometime between September 15 and 19, 1969—this was the final time all four Beatles were together in the same room. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/4 "2015-04-14T12:22:15Z")
Nm ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/5 "2015-04-14T14:14:46Z")
Was there no funeral for John? ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/6 "2015-04-14T14:56:35Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Was there no funeral for John? No, there was no funeral. Also, although the OP didn’t say so, I assume the question referred to all four of them being alive. ---
**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/7 "2015-04-14T15:12:53Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > No, there was no funeral. Also, although the OP didn’t say so, I assume the **question referred to all four of them being alive**. Yes. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/8 "2015-04-14T20:12:50Z")
All four of them appeared, to one degree or another, on the 1973 _ **Ringo** _ album, but there was never a point at which all four were in the studio together. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/9 "2015-04-14T21:06:29Z")
There was never a reunion, so the question admits no answer. [edit] Ah, I see the post contradicts the title. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/10 "2015-04-15T15:14:54Z")
So which two couldn’t stand each other? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/11 "2015-04-15T15:46:14Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > So which two couldn’t stand each other? According to my wife, who teaches the Beatles class at UCLA, it was George and Paul. There was a general feeling among George, John, and Ringo that Paul was responsible for the break-up because of Linda’s and Linda’s father’s meddling in their business affairs. Ringo was the most easy-going of the lot and wasn’t one to hold a grudge. John and Paul mended their relationship during the 70’s. The bad feeling between Paul and George lasted the longest. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/12 "2015-04-15T15:54:03Z")
I was under the impression that all 4 met in 1979 when when Apple Corp. sued Beatlemania, but I’m having a hard time finding any internet confirmation. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/13 "2015-04-15T16:06:03Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > So which two couldn’t stand each other? John and Paul got along well enough to collaborate even during the tense times (“The Ballad of John and Yoko” had Paul and John alone.) However, as \*\*Hamster \*\*noted, there were tensions about the group’s management. In addition, George felt that he was being held back musically by John and, especially, Paul. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/14 "2015-04-15T17:33:58Z")
George had moved on and just wasn’t interested in taking the time. John and Paul had mended fences and Ringo was always up for whatever, but not George. If John and George hadn’t died there would have come a time when a reunion could have happened. Here is a recent article from a few weeks ago with some insightful quotes from John and Paul. At one time Lorne Micheals of SNL had jokingly offered $3000 for a Beatles reunion at the start of a 1976 SNL broadcast. John and Paul just happened to be having a puff at John’s Dakota apartment in NYC and almost got in a cab and went down there. > [@](#): > > Oddly enough, Michaels’ far-less-lucrative bid almost lured Lennon and McCartney to a New York stage anyway. It seems that while the TV producer was making his plea as part of a 1976 Saturday Night Live broadcast, McCartney was visiting nearby at Lennon’s Dakota apartment — reportedly sharing a joint. “We were watching it and almost went down to the studio, just as a gag,” Lennon told David Sheff in one of the former Beatle’s final interviews. “We nearly got into a cab, but we were actually too tired. … He and I were just sitting there watching the show, and we went, ‘Ha-ha, wouldn’t it be funny if we went down,’ but we didn’t.” Full article here: [50 Years Ago: Lennon and McCartney's Final Session Is a Bust](http://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-lennon-paul-mccartney-record/) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/15 "2015-04-15T18:44:02Z")
By the end, it looked as if John was bored with the Beatles, George was feeling stifled by the Beatles (the only thing John and Paul seemed to agree on was quashing George’s contributions), and Ringo was thinking, “Christ, this is no fun any more.” Since the band seemed to be falling apart, Paul tried to hold things together by cracking the whip… which only alienated everybody else further. George stayed angry at Paul a long time. But despite the sentimental words he wrote in “All Those Years Ago,” George hadn’t spoken to John for years at the time of John’s death. He had once regarded Paul and John as big brothers, but by 1970, he thought they were bullies holding him down. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/16 "2015-04-16T03:46:43Z")
> [@Meurglys](#): > > From [this page](http://mentalfloss.com/article/27783/final-days-beatles): Neat article, but why the hell is it written by Eddie Deezen?!? (He was the übernerd in _WarGames_ & _1941_). ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/17 "2015-04-16T10:39:05Z")
From the foot of the page: > [@](#): > > Eddie is a self-confessed Beatles nut and has read over 600 books on The Fab Four. He’ll be contributing a handful of Beatles stories to [mentalfloss.com](http://mentalfloss.com) So he not only sometimes plays a nerd, he is a _Beatles_ nerd! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/18 "2015-04-16T12:02:11Z")
> [@Meurglys](#): > > From the foot of the page: > So he not only sometimes plays a nerd, he is a _Beatles_ nerd! He actually did play a Beatles nerd in the Robert Zemeckis movie, _[I Wanna Hold Your Hand](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077714/)_. I guess the character stuck. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/19 "2015-04-16T12:04:01Z")
Must have been a dream role for him! ---
**Author:** ![DeptfordX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DeptfordX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeptfordX)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-beatles-when-was-their-last-reunion/717630/20 "2015-04-16T13:07:58Z")
You all might enjoy this. > **[Mightygodking dot com » Post Topic » Scenes From An Alternate Universe...](http://mightygodking.com/2009/11/10/scenes-from-an-alternate-universe-where-the-beatles-accepted-lorne-michaels-generous-offer/)** > > April 24, 1976. Lorne Michaels offers the Beatles $3,000 to appear on Saturday Night Live, as a gag mocking the full-page ads taken out in the New York Times