Beatles legend Ringo Starr stormed off the sets of the US show "Live with Regis and Kelly" when producers tried to cut short his performance.

Starr was to perform with Eurythmics singer Dave Stewart singing the title song from his new album "Liverpool 8". But when Starr was asked to shorten his performance, he got upset and left the building.

Contactmusic.com reports that Starr's publicist Elizabeth Freund said that the four-minute-and-15-second song had to be cut short by over a minute.

Freund's statement reads: "We offered to cut back our chat time and asked them to fade or go to commercial. They were not willing to do that and Ringo was not willing to cut it further, so without a compromise we were not able to stay."