Sir Paul McCartney has claimed that he believes The Beatles would have reformed.
Bringing happiness to millions of fans across the globe, the end of The Beatles brought heartache for all four members. Locked in a legal dispute, the Fab Four spent years on icy terms.
Yet fans still ponder what could have happened if the band had reformed. Speaking to The Daily Express recently, Sir Paul McCartney was asked directly if The Beatles would have reformed had John Lennon and George Harrison not passed away.
“If John and George were still here it’s highly likely we would’ve had a Beatles reunion” he said. “I think we would’ve mellowed to the point where we would’ve said, ‘Come on, let’s do it’.”
“The thing was whenever we got together, no matter if we were arguing, we played great. We knew each other so well; we read each other. So if Ringo would speed up a little bit, we all would speed up. So we were like hands in a glove.”
Finishing, Sir Paul McCartney dismissed the talk as speculation. “It would’ve been great, but I’m not a great believer in ‘What if?’ You can’t do it, but I suppose it’s nice to speculate.”
After the collapse of The Beatles in 1970 John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney met on only a few occasions. In 1974 the pair’s relationship had mellowed to the point where they informally jammed with Stevie Wonder on keys.
A far from memorable musical moment, the jam has long been a part of Beatles folklore as the cult booleg ‘A Toot And A Snore In ’74’.
Looking back on the death of the group, Sir Paul McCartney admitted that he found the split difficult. “The loss of the Beatles was very difficult,” he said. “It was in hurtful circumstances so it was particularly difficult. We weren’t speaking to each other. These guys who’d grown up together and had all this success suddenly weren’t speaking to each other.”
“I certainly had wanted us to keep going, but John certainly didn’t. He’d found Yoko (Ono) and they were into a new thing, which turned out to be a great thing for them.”
Sir Paul McCartney is currently working on a new ballet project.
