MY OTHER HAIRSTYLE THAT SHOCKED BRITAIN!

ONE day, in the early Sixties, I happened to mention to an interviewer that I encouraged my husband to trim my pubic hair into a heart shape. Well, the sirens went off.

Strangers in pubs and restaurants bought me a drink on the strength of it. John Lennon adored the idea and started sending me other shapes I could try.

I’d known him since he bought his black leather cap and other items from our shop. We were affectionate friends until the foreign Press gossiped of an affair, which sad to say, was nonexistent. But he did send me messages of huge encouragement when I was in danger of miscarriage at the same time as Yoko Ono.

He was a very sweet and often depressed man. I once sat next to him at a literary lunch at Foyles to launch his book of rhymes and doodles, In His Own Write. He was paralysed with fright at having to speak at this literary haven.

A horrid bully of a man stood up and said how disgracefully rude and insulting it was of Lennon not to speak.

I was furious and clutched John’s shaking hand. He was near tears with frustration and embarrassment.