A tape said to be John Lennon speaking about how, to not put too fine a point on it, he wanted to 'do' his mother when he was a teenager, is causing a bit of controversy. The audio diary is to be used by Beatles writer Philip Norman in a forthcoming biography 'John Lennon: The Life', and Beatles fans aren't down with the idea, and neither, surprisingly, is Yoko Ono. The book also claims that Lennon wanted to have a gay relationship with his colleague Paul McCartney.
According to The Sun, the voice which Norman claims is Lennon's says on the 1979 tape: "I was just remembering the time I had my hand on my mother's tit in 1 Blomfield Road. It was when I was about 14. I took a day off school, I was always doing that and hanging out in her house. We were lying on the bed and I was thinking 'I wonder if I should do anything else?' It was a strange moment, because I actually had the hots for some rather lower class female who lived on the other side of the road. I always think that I should have done it. Presuming she would have allowed it".
The tabloid quotes a friend of Norman's as saying: "This is not what people want to hear - but it's the truth. John was a complex man, even when he was a kid. This audio recording is 100 per cent genuine. It was never meant for public consumption, but has now leaked out".