United Kingdom, March 11 -- Sir Paul McCartney has claimed Yoko Ono told him she thought John Lennon "might have been gay" in a phone call after his death.

The Beatles legend recalled speaking to his bandmate's widow on the phone shortly after his murder in 1980, but he disagreed with Yoko's suspicions about her husband's sexuality because he had seen him get "a lot of girl action".

In an interview conducted in 2015 for the book Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine which has now been published in full by Vanity Fair magazine, Paul said: "I swear [Yoko] rang me shortly after John died and said, 'You know, I think John might have been gay.'

"I went, 'I'm not sure.' I said, 'I don't think so. Certai...