Earlier September a new audio recording was uncovered which revealed that the Beatles were planning to make another record following Abbey Road.

The tape was made for the benefit of drummer Ringo Starr, not present at the 1969 meeting due to health problems.

Starr, who has long since recovered, has now confirmed this was the case.

“None of us said, ‘OK, that’s the last time we’ll ever play together,’” Starr shared in a new interview with BBC 6 Music. “I never felt that.”

“We’d made [Abbey Road] record, and then we would go off and do whatever we wanted to do,” he continued, revealing his own take on the band’s situation in the immediate aftermath of the now iconic album’s recording. “And then Paul [McCartney] would call us and say, ‘Hey, you want to go in the studio lads?’ and we’d do another one.”

Ringo then revealed the sentiment many of his fellow Beatles echoed in the years following the band’s tumultuous demise, the feeling that it was very possible they would someday reunite.

“It was not the end,” the 79-year-old percussionist concluded, “because, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. So I never felt it was in stone.”