Paul McCartney has discussed masturbating with John Lennon and how The Beatles‘ “raunchy” behaviour brought the band closer together according with NME and GQ.
Speaking to GQ, McCartney spoke about an activity he previously revealed in his 1997 biography, Many Years From Now. “What it was, was over at John’s house, and it was just a group of us,” he explained. “And instead of just getting roaring drunk and partying – I don’t even know if we were staying over or anything – we were all just in these chairs, and the lights were out, and somebody started masturbating, so we all did.”
In the group were McCartney, Lennon, and three of Lennon’s friends, all of whom would shout out names as they were engaged in the masturbation session. “We were just, ‘Brigitte Bardot!’ ‘Whoo!’ and then everyone would thrash a bit more,” McCartney said.
He added that Lennon would shout names like Winston Churchill’s to put his friends off and that the activity was “a one-off or maybe it was like a two-off.” “It wasn’t a big thing,” he said. “But, you know, it was just the kind of thing you didn’t think much of. It was just a group. Yeah, it’s quite raunchy when you think about it.
Sir Paul McCartney also has said he was never into orgies – but he did once have a “wonderful experience” with two hookers in Las Vegas.
The rock legend, 76, was responding to late bandmate John Lennon’s claim that The Beatles regularly held group romps during their tours.
He said: “There weren’t really orgies, to my knowledge. There were sexual encounters of the celestial kind and there were groupies. I’m just not into orgies. I don’t want anyone else there. It ruins it!”
But speaking to GQ, he told of a menage a trois he had when the group toured the US – and how he believes John, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were up to similar things in adjoining hotel rooms.
“I think John was a little more that way, because thinking back, I remember there was someone in a club that he’d met, and they’d gone back to the house because the wife fancied John, wanted to have sex with him, so that happened, and John discovered the husband was watching,” he recalled. “That was called ‘kinky’ in those days.
“So I think maybe John experienced a bit more of that than I did. Tell you the truth, I just didn’t fancy it, that kind of thing. Someone else’s wife? I definitely wouldn’t want the husband to know. You know, that seems sensible to me. Am I too sensible? I don’t know. Mine wasn’t particularly crazy but it was a lot of fun. And there was a lot of it. So that was good enough for me.”