Alan McGee: 'I was News of the World hacking target'

Former Creation Records boss Alan McGee has revealed that the Metropolitan Police have contacted him to say that his phone was targeted by the defunct News of the World.

McGee believes that journalists working for the Sunday tabloid may have intercepted voice messages left for him by Courtney Love.

Writing in a blog for the Huffington Post, McGee confirmed that he plans to sue the News International newspaper over the alleged hacking.

McGee said that he "couldn't abide" the News of the World, but jokingly added that he would have been "gutted" if his phone had not been targeted by its journalists.

"In truth, I would have also been gutted to think I wasn't worth at least a little hack! Imagine being deemed by the people at News of the World as not being in the the top 8,000 most interesting people?" he said.

McGee added: "Joking aside, if the police confirm that I have indeed been hacked, and even though this will have been years ago, I will still sue. I couldn't abide News of the World, so I won't be losing sleep in suing them."

The News of the World was shut down by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in July after allegations that it hacked the phones of various high-profile public figures.

McGee, who made £19,500 at the weekend by auctioning one of John Lennon's teeth, also joked that anyone eavesdropping his voicemails would have had the pleasure of listening to various "rambles" from Courtney Love.

"The joke to me is that in the period they are talking about, whoever had the pleasure to get into my voicemail would have just been faced with hour-long Courtney Love rambles from LA about her new songs at 5am UK time," he said.

"I hope they enjoyed their hack there (if obviously it happened) and I pity them having to listen to all that madness..."

The phone hacking scandal is expected to ignite once more this Thursday when News International chairman James Murdoch is due to appear in front of the Commons culture, media and sport select committee again to answer more questions over phone hacking.

Murdoch is facing serious questions over his knowledge of phone hacking practices, after statements he made to the MPs in July were contradicted by various sources.