By DAVID K. LI, Wires

Posted: 4:02 am
September 15, 2008

Love me do, indeed!

A salacious new book alleges John Lennon had sexual fantasies about his mother and Beatle bandmate Paul McCartney.

Philip Norman, author of “John Lennon: The Life,” even claims to have audio recordings to back him up.

“I was just remembering the time I had my hand on my mother’s t – - in No. 1 Bloomfield Road [in Liverpool],” says a voice purported to be Lennon’s from a 1979 interview.

Lennon was raised primarily by his maternal aunt but had regular contact with mother, Julia Lennon, as a teenager.

“We were lying on the bed, and I was thinking, ‘I wonder if I should do anything else’ . . . I always think that I should have done it – presuming she would have allowed it.”

McCartney dismissed Norman’s assertions that Lennon had gay leanings.

“John never, ever tried anything,” McCartney said. “I slept with him a million times.”