Was John Lennon a right-winger?

John Lennon wasn’t quite as radical as Beatles fans may think, according to a new documentary film.
The Toronto Sun reports that Fred Seaman, Lennon's personal assistant from 1979 until the time of his death in 1980, heard the singer speak fondly of President-elect Ronald Reagan.
"John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on Jimmy Carter," Seaman told American director and songwriter Seth Swirsky in his new documentary Beatles Stories.
"He'd met Reagan back, I think, in the '70s at some sporting event ... Reagan was the guy who had ordered the National Guard, I believe, to go after the young demonstrators in Berkeley, so I think that John maybe forgot about that ... He did express support for Reagan, which shocked me."
Seaman also talks of Lennon’s “embarrassment” over the youthful resentment that pegged the singer as a liberal, not a conservative. "I also saw John embark in some really brutal arguments with my uncle, who's an old-time communist ... He enjoyed really provoking my uncle ... Maybe he was being provocative ... but it was pretty obvious to me he had moved away from his earlier radicalism."
Beatles Stories is a series of interviews with some of music's biggest players including Brian Wilson, Art Garfunkel and Smokey Robinson, speaking about the mop-toppers. There’s no date set yet for a UK release but you can see the US trailer, above