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Paul McCartney Says the Beatles Considered Reforming

8:40 a.m. · September 15, 2009 · by Nick Neyland

Sir Paul McCartney has been talking candidly about The Beatles during his promotional duties surrounding their reissued back catalog and video game. Rumors that The Beatles would reform were quashed following John Lennon’s tragic death, but McCartney has indicated that they were open to the idea on several occasions.

"We talked about it a lot and we always said that if we did [reunite] it might not be great, whereas the Beatles' career had been great,” he said. “We'd gone from A to Z and it had been a great journey. If now we were going to go to 'Z plus' and it wasn't very good, you'd ruin the whole thing," he said.

The interview was conducted by Entertainment Tonight Online and can be viewed here. "Even though the offers were huge, and there were people [saying] 'I'll pay you this to do it!' we talked about it and we sort of said 'nah'. [There was] something not right about it,” McCartney said.