WHAT IF: The Beatles

November 13th, 2009 Uncategorized Ryan Brlecic

Years later in an interview with Playboy, Lennon says “I’d told Ringo about it, see, and we thought it was hilarious, but figured that was it and we’d missed the shot. When Ringo saw the second sketch, he decided to force our hand.”

Christopher Bird of Mightygodking writes an alternate reality in which The Beatles never stopped. Using Lorne Michaels’ offer of a million dollars to reunite as a starting point, Bird goes on to surmise how the rest of the world would have been affected.

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 offering the Beatles millions of dollars to reunite and play in Shea Stadium. Unbeknownst to Michaels, both John Lennon and Paul McCartney are in New York City at the time, and see the sketch airing live. They consider actually going to the studio, but decide they are too tired.

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Ryan Brlecic

Ryan Brlecic is a freelance illustrator/ graphic designer based in Cleveland, OH. He is responsible for visuals / content on The Red Circle. His formative years included ironman stretches of comic book reading and movie watching. His current years include attempting to engage in ironman stretches of movies, comics, and illustrations. This is normally thwarted by the raising of his arch-nemesis-in-training daughter. Along with his freelance work and The Red Circle, he is also creating DISENFRANCHISED, his first comic series.

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