Despite their “nice guy” image, The Beatles were tormented by inner demons that fueled stormy love lives marked by violence against women, drugs, wife-swapping, romps with hookers and gay trysts.
From the very beginning, John Lennon, lead singer Paul McCartney, guitarist George Harrison and drummer Ringo Starr were notorious for womanizing and sexually swinging their way through the 1960s. But most of their shocking sexploits and outrageously kinky romps were kept under wraps.
“If we couldn’t get groupies, we would have whores and everything, whatever was going,” John later recalled. “When we hit town, we hit it…crawling about in Amsterdam on my knees, whorehouses and things like that.
“The police escorted me to the places because they never wanted a big scandal!”