Interview for Daily Express

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On August 27, 1970, Paul McCartney gave a brief interview to the Daily Express in which he stated: “The Beatles will not get together again for financial or any other reasons. The reason should be perfectly plain to everyone.“

Two days later, in the August 29, 1970 edition of Melody Maker, a letter from Paul appeared in the “Mailbag” section. In it, he reiterated his position that The Beatles were finished, leaving no doubt that the split was final.

PAUL McCARTNEY finally said it last night: The Beatles have stopped playing together.

Bronzed, barefoot, and stripped to the waist, he stood on a lonely Scottish hillside to sound the last note for the group.

Speaking outside his hideaway farm in Argyll, 28-year-old McCartney said:

“The Beatles will not get together again for financial or any other reasons. The reason should be perfectly plain to everyone.”

McCartney, with his wife Linda and family, have been living in Scotland for several months.

“This life and place could do us for the rest of our lives,” he said. “But there is nothing settled, and I am free to choose … I will continue to write music.”

YESTERDAY the other Beatles, through a spokesman for their company Apple, refused to comment. Like everyone else, they were surprised.

Despite the absence of McCartney and John Lennon — who has been in the U.S. with his wife Yoko Ono for some weeks — George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Apple administrators continue. The Beatles’ income in the past year was estimated at £7,500,000.

Apple executives are editing a film on the Beatles. Press Officer Derek Taylor is compiling a book.