POP & ROCK

Yoko Ono brands as “slander” and “totally false” allegations in Albert Goldman’s new biography “The Lives of John Lennon” that her late husband had homosexual affairs and spent his final years as a Howard Hughes-like, anorexic recluse. Ono makes the remarks in a Westwood One radio special scheduled for broadcast at 10 tonight on KMPC-FM (101.9). The program--hosted by Elliot Mintz, a longtime friend of the Lennons who has served as Ono’s media representative since Lennon’s murder in 1980--also includes comments about the book from Lennon’s sons, Julian and Sean, as well as comments from Goldman, who defends his work. Though Ono refuses to read the book, Mintz said, she responded to passages read to her during the interview. She was, the host said, particularly horrified by Goldman’s charge that she had used heroin while pregnant with Sean in 1975. “These people in this book are not us,” Ono says in the program. “It’s not John and me, and I’d like the fans to know that, so at least they can relax.”