🗣️ Paul McCartney Recalls Yoko Ono Suggesting John Lennon ‘Might Have Been Gay’

Paul McCartney has claimed that Yoko Ono told him she thought her late husband John Lennon
"might have been gay".

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gold across Australia.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's Jonesy demanded driving you home for jam Nation on Thursday.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
I like your thoughts on this, Brendan, because I know
recently you read it took about a year to read.
It was the Ward's thickest book on the Beatlesning.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
In the Beatles was a forensic account of the Beatles,
going way back to even the parents of the Beatles,
before the quarrymen, before any of that.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
How they all got it and they're all game meats.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
It was just it was it was so forensic, but
at the same time, you know, there was all these
little bits that could have changed the whole music history.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's a great thing to read the stories of people
who go on to be perhaps the most famous people
in the world, or to read the beginnings. You think,
little did they know that everyone in the world would
know their an.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
And Ringo Sta, for example, it was looking like he
wouldn't even get past twenty.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
You know when he was he almost he was twelve,
you know he died. Now look at him, he's like
a thousand years old. He's dead. He doesn't even know it.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
He looks better than most people age. Still on the kid, Well,
what do you think of this story. Paul McCartney has
recently said that he took a phone call from Yoko
Ono not long after the tragic death of John Lennon
and she thought quote that he might have been gay.
This is what Paul McCartney said. I swear she rang

(01:16):
me shortly after John died and said, you know, I
think John may have been gay. Paul McCartney himself said,
here's known lenin since the age of sixteen and became
a man with him and he didn't think so what
happened to me?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, in this book it speaks about the relationship between
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and they.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Said they were almost like a couple.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
That's different.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
But when Paul muccartney was sixteen, John Lennon was nineteen,
George Harrison was fourteen and John Lennon was his art student,
and the other guys.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Were in answer the question counselor.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
And Peter Sutcliffe, the drammer, he was the Pete best?
Which one was it? Pete's best?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
But that's not answering my question. Did you get a
sense of this in the book?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Stuart Sutcliffe? Sorry, yeah, I got gay? You can't handle
the gay you possibly can.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
I'm just interesting.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I don't know if it was gay, probably helped them out,
probably helped them out when they were busy.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
But in those days, they're all taking a lot of drugs,
they were all experimenting, they were all trying to break
out of their suburban lives. And if you're one of
the most famous people in the world, why wouldn't you
try a bit of everything? And I wonder if John
Lennon is looking down from wherever from heaven and going
shut up, Yoko.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
It was once yah off with a bloke once and
look your.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Wife tells Paul McCartney. And when they're in the eighties
they blab to the world.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Imagine coming up.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I like Thursday because not only is it PID radio station,
but double a chattery drops today.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
It's a charming one today. I'll tell you why next.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
I'm piqued about this that's coming up on Gold