John Lennon didn't support Ronald Reagan, says rep

John Lennon's former spokesperson Elliot Mintz has denied that the ex-Beatle became a political conservative in his final years.

Fred Seaman, who served as Lennon's assistant from 1979 to his death in 1980, elicited controversy by claiming in the new documentary Beatles Stories that the rocker came to regret the idealistic message of songs like 'Imagine' and 'Power To The People'.

Seaman declared that Lennon privately backed Republican Ronald Reagan to win the 1980 election because he was displeased with then-President Jimmy Carter's left-leaning policies.

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Lennon's longtime rep and former confidant Mintz denied Seaman's assertions and insisted to TMZ that the 'Give Peace A Chance' singer never underwent a radical change in political beliefs.

Mintz said: "From the time I met John in 1971, until the end, all of those things he expressed in 'Imagine' were part of his belief system until the last breath of his life. If you listen to the last recorded interviews that were done with John, you'll hear him express in his own words... his own beliefs... which are virtually identical to the beliefs he held in '71."

Mintz went on to say that anyone claiming Lennon turned his back on progressive politics isn't telling the truth and accused Seaman of presenting a "distorted revisionist view of history".

Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has herself contended that her spouse would have remained an advocate for progressive causes if he had survived his 1980 shooting.

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