McCartney Times

Terri Hooley, an influential figure on the Northern Irish music scene, has revealed that he once punched John Lennon after the Beatles legend mistook him for a supporter of the Irish Republican Army. Hooley discusses the incident in a new biography titled Terri Hooley: Seventy-Five Revolutions. As recounted in an article in U.K. newspaper The Guardian, Hooley was introduced to Lennon while visiting London sometime around 1970 by friends from the counterculture magazine Oz. Hooley, who was raised Protestant in East Belfast, Northern Ireland, recalled that Lennon thought he was an IRA supporter and offered to supply him with weapons, and he responded by punching the Fab Four member.

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Source: Terri Hooley Voices Regret for Punching John Lennon, Reveals Lennon’s Ex-Wife Said “You Should Have Hit Him Harder”