The Beatles' Paul McCartney threw Ringo Starr out of his house after 'crazy' row

After dominating the charts throughout the 1960s, The Beatles went their separate ways at the start of the 1970s. Rising tensions, artistic differences and John Lennon's relationship with Yoko Ono are all cited as reasons for the split, which devastated fans.

The band's final recordings took place in August 1969 for 'The End' which featured on the album 'Abbey Road'. A month later, John informed his fellow members that he was leaving the band, asking for a 'divorce' from The Beatles.

The final album to be released by The Beatles was 'Let It Be', which was completed with previous recordings in January 1970. Then, a press release issued by Paul McCartney in April of that year confirmed he would no longer be working with The Beatles, bringing an end to the hope they would carry on without John.

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Paul's departure led to a bitter row about the releases of 'Let It Be' and Paul's first solo album - 'McCartney'. Paul's album was recorded in private at his London and Scotland homes in the months after John decided he was leaving the band and he has said he told his bandmates he would be releasing 'McCartney' alongside his press release announcing his departure from The Beatles, which would be issued in April 1970.

The lead up to this caused a fight within the band. An ongoing row about Allan Klein becoming the band's new manager simmered throughout 1969 and caused the band stress about what would happen to their money and the future of their music. That row developed as the release of 'McCartney' was set to clash with the planned May release date of The Beatles' final album 'Let It Be'.

With record label Apple wanting to avoid a clash and Paul not wanting to speak to Apple, Ringo Starr went to his home with a letter from himself, John and George Harrison asking him to move his release date. Paul recalled this in an interview with Howard Stern from September 2018 and a clip of that interview has circulated on social media in recent days.

Howard asked Paul: "I heard a crazy story and I don’t know if it’s true. You’re about to put out the 'McCartney' solo album, The Beatles are done, The Beatles release 'Let it Be'.

"Ringo comes to your house with a letter from John and George and Ringo and said you are not to put out your McCartney album at the same time we’re putting out a Beatles album. Ringo hand delivers this - you took him and threw him right out of the f***ing house."

Paul confirmed this did indeed happen. He told Howard: "I did, I did. It was bad enough that we were splitting up, it was bad enough that all that money we’d earned and the fame we had was going down the pan.

"There was this guy who was going to take it all and it was that close. I was having to fight and say ‘no guys, we can keep it, we don’t have it to this guy’.

"Then there was Ringo delegated to come round to me and to tell me. My release date was firmly fixed and everyone knew this was the release date, so I was going to, you know, this was ok.

“Then Ringo comes round and says ‘no you won’t’. So I went ‘f*** off, get out of my house.

"And he did. Even that, we got it back together, that’s families for you."

As Paul said, he and Ringo were able to bury the hatchet and remain good friends. Ringo spoke fondly of Paul in an interview with Vice earlier this week, saying: "We did it and now it’s still going on. Paul’s in South America right now playing to 50 or 60 thousand a night. It’s so great, I’m still doing my stuff, we’re just musicians."