The Beatles were offered £20million to reunite – but turned it down due to one issue

The Beatles were set to get back together in the mid-1970s, but drummer Ringo Starr has shared the reason the band said no – despite being offered nearly £41million for one just performance.

Legendary rock group The Beatles had a chance to reunite for a lot of money but turned it down for just one reason. Ringo Starr, the band's drummer, shared the group were offered $50million in 1976 – the equivalent of £200million today – to get back together for a one-off performance.

It seemed a tempting deal for the Fab Four but they eventually turned the offer down. Starr and fellow surviving Beatles member Paul McCartney briefly reunited at the Wings frontman's show in London late last year. But a full Beatles reunion never came to be after their break-up in 1970.

Their final live performance took place from the Abbey Road Studios' rooftop, where new songs like 'Don't Let Me Down' and 'Get Back' were performed. With Starr and McCartney reuniting on stage to play Helter Skelter and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, some fans remembered the massive offer presented to the band in 1976.

While the band's members would go on to work with one another on some of their solo projects, such as when Starr and George Harrison collaborated on the single 'When We Was Fab,' the four never worked together as a unit again.

But that could have changed in 1976 when, Starr says, the group was offered a large sum to get back together. While each of The Beatles' members believed they would reform at some point and play some live shows, their offer of a reunion was prevented due to one strange reason.

Source: liverpoolecho.co.uk/Ewan Gleadow

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