THE BEATLES almost got back together in 1976 . . . six years after they broke up . . . but their reunion was prevented by a GREAT WHITE SHARK. According to RINGO STARR, a promoter offered them the equivalent of about $250 million in today’s money, and the four of them talked about it.
“We called each other to see what we think. We decided not to do it because the opening act was a guy [fighting] a shark. So we thought no.”
It sounds crazy, but there might be some truth to this. According to an old “People” magazine article from 1976, a promoter named Bill Sargent made the offer.
But after the Beatles turned him down, he decided to concentrate on his next project, in which an Australian diver named Wally Gibbins would, quote, “fight to the death with a 14-foot, 2,500-pound killer shark in a lagoon off Western Samoa.”
