Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that The Beatles decided against reforming because they didn't want to “ruin” their legacy.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Sir Paul said the band often discussed getting back together following their split in 1970.

But despite lucrative offers, all four members were against the idea.

"We talked about it a lot and we always said that if we did [reform] 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.”

Sir Paul added: "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."

Elsewhere in the interview, former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr described the Liverpool group as “the band of brothers”.

(by Jason Gregory)