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Sean Lennon: My dad had a temper

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American singer Sean Lennon attends the "Brit Awards" at Earl's Court in London on February 20, 2008. (UPI Photo/Rune Hellestad) 
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Published: Sept. 22, 2008 at 7:54 PM

NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. musician and singer Sean Lennon alleges in the new biography "John Lennon: The Life" that his late peace icon dad had a temper.

E! News said John Lennon's only child with Yoko Ono recalls in a forthcoming book by Philip Norman how his former Beatle father became angry when Sean was 4 and couldn't get the hang of using a knife and fork to cut steak.

"I think it was that night when he got very upset with me, I think because of something I did very cheekily with the steak. He did wind up yelling at me very, very loudly to the point where he damaged my ear, and I had to go to the doctor," said Sean Lennon, now 32. "I remember when I was lying on the floor and hurting, and him holding me and saying, 'I'm so sorry.' He did have a temper."

John Lennon was shot to death in New York in 1980.

E! said neither Ono nor Sean Lennon were available for comment at press time, E! said.

Topics: John Lennon, Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono
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