THE BEAT GOES ON
HOLLYWOOD—At last it can be revealed—the Beatles DID plan reuniting to appear on the top NBC-TV comedy show, Saturday Night, but their "surprise" for millions of nationwide viewers went wrong, said Chevy Chase, one of the stars of the show.
THE BEAT GOES ON
Chevy Chase: "We Almost Reunited The Beatles!"
HOLLYWOOD—At last it can be revealed—the Beatles DID plan reuniting to appear on the top NBC-TV comedy show, Saturday Night, but their "surprise" for millions of nationwide viewers went wrong, said Chevy Chase, one of the stars of the show.
Chevy talked about the illfated reunion for the first time during a break in filming at the NBC Studios in Hollywood, where he was making a guest appearance on the new Dick Van Dyke Show.
"When Paul McCartney was over here with Wings I stayed with him for a time, and he told me about it," Chevy said. "I've never talked about it before because I felt no one would take it seriously.
"That's one of the major disadvantages of being one of the stars of a show like Saturday Night. Everyone tends to think you are spoofing all the time. I told Paul that. He just winked!"
Chevy said that because of all the rumors circulating about a Beatles reunion sometime during the Wings tour it was decided to "make fun" of the stories on Saturday Night.