United Kingdom, Sept. 19 -- John Lennon was a "bully" and a "nuisance" during his school days, it has been claimed.

Tom Barry, a design and technology teacher at what is now known as The Calderstones School in Liverpool, has revealed that staff tried to "remove any trace of" the late Beatles musician after he left - even during the height of the Fab Four's fame during the 1960s.

Barry said: "When John left, he was that much of a nuisance and a bully and that much of a poor student the school staff didn't want to acknowledge that he ever went to school and removed any trace of him.

"He was never spoken about, he was never acknowledged through Beatlemania. Apparently, fans would come to the school gates and just be sent away because the ...