John Lennon said two Beatles albums proved they should never reunite

Fans were devastated in April 1970 when the Beatles announced they were splitting up. In fact, the band had been falling apart behind the scenes for the previous few years, amid fights, rivalries and resentments. In an extraordinarily frank and unvarnished interview in 1971 with The Daily Express, Lennon opened up about why for the rest of his life the musician would never waver from his conviction he could see “no reason” why they should ever reunite.The interview was given to Daily Express entertainment journalist David Wigg in October 1971.Lennon had been increasingly dismissive of some of the Beatles material. Towards the end of the group he also implied McCartney’s compositions were rather lightweight.He said; “I told everyone years ago ‘I’m not going to be singing ‘She Loves You’ when I’m thirty. I was thirty last year and it was then when I broke the band up, or I decided to leave.”Asked about hopes for a reunion, Lennon said: “I can’t see…There’s no reason why we should ever play together” and bluntly explained why. The Beatles in 1969 (Image: GETTY) The Beatles before they were famous in 1961 at The Cavern Club (Image: PA TRACKS LTD) The Beatles in happier times in 1963 (Image: GETTY )Lennon added: “I knew I wouldn’t be doing the same thing. It just doesn’t work like that. It’s like a rugby team. Sometimes you just have to get married and leave the boys on a Saturday night. That’s just how it is.”The music icon frankly admitted the problems had started years before that: “The Beatles were disintegrating slowly after (the band’s manager) Brian Epstein died (in 1967). “It was a slow death. It was evident in Let It Be (early 1969). It was evident in India when George and I stayed there and Paul and Ringo left.  And it was evident on The White Album (1968).”DON’T MISSJohn Lennon’s ‘best Beatles song’ written for his wife – not Yoko OnoGeorge Harrison confessed his work was ‘ruined’ by Paul McCartneyElvis – Paul McCartney agrees with John Lennon’s view of The King John Lennon and Paul McCartney (Image: GETTY)The White Album was released as The Beatles and widely acknowledged to be like “four solo albums” with little overlap between the work of the band members. Starr also briefly left the band during recording.Lennon added: “I couldn’t say ‘no’ categorically on the Bible or a grapefruit, ‘I swear we’d never play together under any circumstances.'”I have no idea. But personally I don’t see any reason to form that group again. Paul has his new band, I have a new band, no doubt George will have a band and Ringo will have a band.”Lennon had formed the Plastic Ono Band with Yoko Ono and McCartney released a smash hit solo album in 1970 before forming the band Wings in 1971.The other three reunited after his death but Lennon never shared a stage or studio again with all his former bandmates.