On 24 April 1976, during a broadcast of Saturday Night Live , producer Lorne Michaels jokingly offered the Beatles $3,000 to reunite on the show. Lennon and McCartney were watching the live broadcast at Lennon’s apartment at the Dakota in New York, which was within driving distance of the NBC…
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and then to $50 million the following month.
Following the 1976 US No. 12 ballad hit ” I Never Cry “; two studio albums, Alice Cooper Goes to Hell and Lace and Whiskey ; and the 1977 US No. 9 ballad hit ” You and Me “, it became clear during his 1977 US tour that Cooper was…
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Their next studio album, Agents of Fortune (1976), was their first to go platinum and was again produced by David Lucas. It contained the hit single “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”, which reached number 12 on the Billboard charts and has become a classic of the hard rock genre. Other major…
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In 1976, they recorded their tenth album, Animals , in their newly finished 24-track studio.
The Stones needed a new guitarist, and the recording sessions in Munich for the next album, Black and Blue (1976; No. 2 in the UK, No. 1 in the US), were effectively used as auditions. Guitarists as stylistically disparate as Peter Frampton and Jeff Beck were auditioned, as well as…
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His instalment as an official Rolling Stone was announced in 1976
All This and World War II (1976) was an unorthodox nonfiction film that combined newsreel footage with covers of Beatles songs by performers ranging from Elton John and Keith Moon to the London Symphony Orchestra .
He raised his offer to $30 million in January 1976
Released in September, it reached number one in both the UK and the US.