May Pang and Julian you're wonderful! Im just tired of being pushed around. I loved this woman (Pang)" Pang claims after he met up with Ono for a hypnotherapy session to quit smoking, he ended the relationship and went back to Ono. He always had a pad and his pencil or Flair pen, and he writes it down," Pang said. Our thanks to Viv Goldberg for her help in arranging the interview. Eventually, Lennon found out about Onos alleged affair and, Pang said, instead of being jealous, he said: Oh, good!. His violent death was a sudden and tragic end to the life of a talented singer and musician who wanted to make a difference in the world. The pair was forced to return to New York in February 1974 for Lennon to meet with lawyers about his immigration status in the U.S. Yoko told John she wanted a divorce and ordered him to her attorneys office to sign the papers. A fond look at Lennon's 'Lost Weekend'. Pang was Lennon's lover during the infamous "Lost Weekend" which lasted 18 months during late 1973 through 1975. The pair moved in together, renting a 900 sq. When John came home, he claimed, Im going to be a free man in six months.. In 1969, at the age of 18, she said she walked into the New York office of Apple Records and landed a job. But I was eager to learn the music business. That in L.A., John, for the first time since the breakup of the Beatles (and maybe since the Beatles began), let his hair down and began to enjoy a more relaxed, fraternizing, at times carousing rat-pack existence. Jun 9, 2022 4:35pm PT May Pang Aims to Set Record Straight About John Lennon Affair in 'The Lost Weekend,' Premiering at Tribeca "John was drinking, but that was overblown in retrospect,". But thats something wed have to guess at, since the life of John Lennon remains, for all the ways its been chronicled, not quite knowable. The lovers were together about 18 months, and Pang said their physical relationship continued for awhile after Lennon returned to Ono in The Dakota. [14], Julian began to see his father more regularly. It was all a lark; Pang was just going with the flow. Lennon would complete his oldies album, which would be called Rock 'n' Roll, with the same musicians he used on Walls and Bridges. Then she walked out the door. We were going to buy a house! she said. She was 10 years younger than Lennon (and 17 years younger than Yoko), who was her boss and a Beatle. I took him to parks., She also helped him re-connect to his life before Ono entered the picture. May Pang had a whirlwind, 18-month romance with John Lennon in the 1970s during a break in . Speaking recently to The Journal News at her Pomona home, Pang showed photos of Lennon, and a gold record for his 1974 album "Walls and Bridges," where Pang can be heard singing backup on "#9 Dream.". A love story that took 50 years to tell, "The Lost Weekend: A Love Story" explores the 18-month romantic relationship between John Lennon and his Chinese-American assistant May Pang, [20] Lennon references the incident in the song, "Nobody Told Me". NEW YORK -- A new documentary takes its name from a time in the life of the late John Lennon. The film was produced and directed by Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman and Stuart Samuels. In NYC, Lennon could be himself, even riding an MTA bus at the urging of Pang, who'd grown up in Spanish Harlem. In the documentary, Julian arises as Pangs greatest ally and witness. A documentary about their relationship, The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, was produced in 2022. Courtsey of May Pang So began an 18-month-long affair that has come to be known as. Less well known is the period that followed when he and Pang returned to NYC. [19] Lennon previously had cats while he lived at his Aunt Mimi's house in Liverpool; he and Pang adopted two cats that they named Major and Minor. Even when John Lennon and Pang were thousands of miles away from Ono, Pang says that Ono was a constant presence in their lives, because Ono . 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And, because I was 10 years younger, we were getting to do all the things young couples do., Pang insists that the ex-Beatle only used the term lost weekend to refer to that time because he was tired of the press constantly asking him about two high-profile incidents in 1974 in which he was tossed from an Los Angeles club for being inebriated and verbally abusive. "[17] The cover of Julian's seventh album, Jude, features a childhood photo of him taken by Pang.[18]. [38] The Lost Weekend will appear in theaters internationally for a limited run April 13th and 14th 2023. The new film makes clear that their time together lasted a lot longer than simply a weekend, and it was by no means totally lost, but their relationship was most definitely a love story, and it is interesting to speculate about what might have been had they stayed together. Pang pulled out her Nikkormat and captured the moment. My time with John might have been short, but everything during it was monumental, she says. "She thought it would be two weeks, gone, goodbye. Today, Pang is the mother of two adult children and she just wants to set the record straight. The Lost Weekend: A Love Story: Directed by Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman, Stuart Samuels. Journalist Larry Kane, who befriended Lennon in 1964, wrote a comprehensive biography of Lennon which detailed the "Lost Weekend" period. [8] Ono later confirmed this conversation in an interview. May Pang said John Lennon liked when his partner controlled him Over the course of their relationship, Pang got to know Lennon well. The couple had a daughter, Kyoko. "At first I said, 'No, I'm not interested,'" Pang said. Gruen suggested Lennon should call the police, but Lennon laughed it off, saying, "Im not going to call up the newspaper and say, 'This is John Lennon and I saw a flying saucer last night.'" There was a more artistic feel on this side of the border. This beautifully done documentary brought me TOTALLY in to the life of John, his breakup with Yoko, his relationship with Julian, and his life saving love story with May Pang. The Preston & Steve Show had the opportunity to speak with May via Zoom before the debut of her movie, The Lost Weekend: A Pang subsequently produced two books about their relationshipa memoir called Loving John (Warner, 1983) and a book of photographs, Instamatic Karma (St. Martins Press, 2008). While working at their home office at the Dakota building, however, Pang immediately sensed a chill between her bosses. The central figure in the new documentary The Lost Weekend: A Love Story is May Pang, who has told her tale many times (in her memoir, and on talk shows like Geraldo in the film, we see a lot of clips of those appearances). In December 1973, Lennon collaborated with Phil Spector to record the oldies album Rock 'n' Roll. I want you to go out with him,'" she said. The idea that one of the greatest artists of all time was highly depressed and suffering from alcaholism at the height of his youth and fame fascinates me to no end, as it proves that some truly gifted people's struggle to find happiness can span throughout their lifetimes, however long or short. Yoko wasnt even aware we had gone until after we left.. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In February 1975, Pang and Lennon were together in Long Island when Ono called her husband and asked him to come and see "a therapist who could break his nicotine habit through hypnosis. The Brazilian magazine Trip published for the first time the lost Janis Joplin topless photos in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, in the summer Born 1955 in Brooklyn, New York, American model and actress Janice Dickinson moved to New York City to pursue work as a model after winning A cool photo collection that shows what naughty ladies looked like in the 1950s. According to her, the couple were considering buying a home in the Hamptons. "But he kept trying.". "Not quite," she replied. In March, she ran unsuccessfully for a Pomona village trustee seat, receiving 190 votes. People dont understand that the phrase wasnt about our relationship., Regardless, the term became so resonant that a new documentary centered on that period The Lost Weekend: A Love Story devotes half its title to it. Lennon bought Julian a Gibson Les Paul copy guitar and a drum machine for Christmas in 1973, and encouraged Julian's interest in music by showing him some chords. Its been covered by everything from E! Also, she said Ono grew jealous as time went on and began to call a million times a day, Pang said. She would soon become famous for a much more intimate tie to the group than that, as her very public 18-month affair with John Lennon in the mid-70s is still a subject of great fascination to his fans, 50 years later. Pang told her side of the story in a 1983 memoir, "Loving John," and "Instamatic Karma," a 140-page collection of private photos she took during her time with Lennon. I decided it was time to reclaim my own history. [1] They had two children. Maybe not to anybody else. He really enjoyed Julians company., Pang said she also helped reconnect Lennon with Julians mother, his first wife, Cynthia. In the years since, however, Onos image has greatly improved, an evolution that could actually wind up making some people less, rather than more, sympathetic to Pangs story today. He understood what to do to make it work in the media, she said. [5] Pang coordinated an art exhibition in Syracuse, New York, on October 9, 1971, for Ono's This Is Not Here art show at the Everson Museum. Pangs parents, who had an arranged and unhappy marriage, were Chinese immigrants who, before coming to America, endured the Japanese invasion of their country that killed millions. Pang claims that she and Lennon remained lovers until 1977, and stayed in contact until his death. The first time she saw Lennon and Ono at the office, she was a bit taken aback. Victorian postmortem photos did exist, no one denies that, however, they were never taken in a standing pose using a stand. You got John back. And there are startling photographs that document the recording of Rock n Roll, the album of early rock chestnuts that Lennon made with Phil Spector, who was entering his full mad-dog phase. Read Next: CinemaCon Report Card: Scorsese and Barbie Impress, Wonka Confounds and Christoper Nolan Takes Big Swing, That Old Jack Black Magic: As the Villain of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the Actor Gives His Peachiest Performance in Years, Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World Review: Its Conventional but Delivers, Four Quartets Review: A Film of Ralph Fiennes One-Man Show Channels the Majesty of T.S. Given that description, people naturally viewed that weekend which actually lasted 18 months and which coincided with Lennons separation from Yoko Ono as a period of great excess and deep regret. She worked for John Lennon and Yoko Ono as a personal assistant and production coordinator, and when Lennon and Ono separated in 1973, Pang and Lennon began a relationship that lasted more than 18 months. Dismissed by her stern father, who imagined he was still king of the roost back in China, May found herself subject to the ancient cultural tradition of sons being superior to daughters. Yet, according to May Pang, who was Lennon's 22-year-old live-in lover during that time, that was anything but the case. Lennon achieved his only number-one solo US single in his lifetime with "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night". The Pang family left when the tenements where they lived were scheduled to be razed, and moved to an apartment near 97th Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. (modern). Anyone who she sensed was making a play for John, they were gone, she said. May is best known for her 18 month relationship with John Lennon, often referred to as 'The Lost Weekend' and her subsequent marriage to music producer, Tony Visconti. She had a difficult childhood, and sought refuge in music, and television shows like "American Bandstand" and "Where The Action Is.". According to May Pang, she totally did, walking into Pangs office at the fortress-like Dakota, where John and Yoko had moved to feel more secure (Lennon, at that point, was being seriously harassed by the FBI, since President Nixon wanted him deported), and basically giving her an executive order: Youre going to have a relationship with John. [33], Pang's book of photographs, Instamatic Karma, was published in 2008. Like the rest of her boomer generation, Pang fell in love with the Beatles from seeing them on The Ed Sullivan Show, but her fave Fab at first wasnt John, but Ringo. ALSO READ | Eyewitness to the Death of John Lennon, * Download the abc7NY app for breaking news alerts. Thirty years ago, Pang wrote a book, Loving John, that detailed hers, asserting her relationship with Lennon wasnt just a passing fling or fluke, as characterized by some, but a deep and abiding love. Free from both the demands of Beatlemania and his tensions with Ono, Pang said that Lennon got to do normal things. She was credited with facilitating his relationship with his young son, Julian. Pang was also there to witness when the Beatles broke up, legally speaking. [1] Pang's mother had a laundry business in the area. When people would ask for my autograph, I would tell them, You dont want mine You want his. One star is enough for any family.. "It was nice, believe me. At one point, he even asked Pang: "what do you think if I write with Paul again? [4][8] Ono explained that she and Lennon were not getting along, had been arguing and were growing apart, and said that Lennon would start seeing other women. My mother used to tell me, You have a mouth. We didnt know that at the time, Pang said. I took him on bus rides. By that time Lennon had settled on the title '#9 Dream', and had a chorus refrain - "Ah! For the record, she said, her favorite Beatle was Ringo. bwakawa pouss, pouss" - which he claimed had come to him in a dream. John Lennon and Yoko Ono pictured in 1968. The daughter of Chinese immigrants (her Chinese name, Fung Yee, means "Phoenix bird"), May Pang grew up in New York, living with her parents and an adopted brother. May Pang tells her version of what happened in "The Lost Weekend," which is billed as a love story with John Lennon. "[Ono] did not realize it was going to turn into such a big love affair," Pang says in the trailer. After graduating high school in the early seventies, May decided against college, wanting instead to get in on the ground floor of the music industry, and make the business end of music her career. Lennon stopped drinking and concentrated on recording. [20][21] In the early summer, Lennon was working on his Walls and Bridges album when the couple moved into a penthouse apartment at 434 East 52nd Street. Their togetherness did not last in part because Yoko Ono was a constant presence in their life and called them daily. Music was my passion, explains the Spanish Harlem-born author and subject of the upcoming documentary, The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival for a sold-out show on June 10. I knew, at that moment, if John and I had gone to meet Paul and Linda, there would have been new music. That doesnt square with what the film has implied that Lennon had drifted away from Yoko. "John hadn't seen them in years," Pang said. In a new documentary, the woman who went from assistant to lover of the ex-Beatle talks about her side of a misunderstood story, Smack in the middle of the 1970s, John Lennon experienced what he famously called a lost weekend, echoing the title of a classic 1945 movie about an out-of-control alcoholic. Lennon later referred to this time as his Lost Weekend. Send it to Eyewitness News using the form below. She was fun but circumspect (she didnt drink or do drugs). About two years after she was first employed there, Ono came to the young assistant with a startling proposal. Starr had left for the night, Pang recalled, and McCartney sat in on drums and sang harmony while Lennon played guitar and sang lead. But talking to her by Zoom from her home in Queens and understanding her background complicates that view. And I said, 'What?' I would have to coax him through it, Pang said. Pang said Lennon eventually asked her out. After working for John Lennon and Yoko Ono as their. Its my version. Pang was present during a jam session on March 28, 1974, that would be the last time Lennon would record with McCartney. I told her I wasnt interested at all. I thought the animation was brilliant, just so clever, says Pang. For a person who is not supposed to be in his life, I was in his life, she said. He was getting to hang out with his friends and have a lot of fun, she said. Her tale begins in NYC, continues in LA, and then ends more than 18 months later in Manhattan. She worked for John Lennon and Yoko Ono as a personal assistant and production coordinator, and when Lennon and Ono separated in 1973, Pang and Lennon began a relationship that lasted more than 18 months. I wanted it to be just me and him.. ", "I'm not even gonna say what happened, some of it was ridiculous," he says. When May Pang's relationship with John Lennon ended in 1975 after a whirlwind 18 months, she didn't know at the time how difficult it would be to love again but the late Beatle did.. Pang, 72, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue that after her "lost weekend" with the musician ended and he went back to wife Yoko Ono, Lennon shared a warning about her future romances that rang true in the . Pang moved to Rockland County in 1991. In March 1974, Lennon began producing Harry Nilsson's Pussy Cats album,[13] thus named to counter the "bad boy" image the pair had earned in the media with two drinking incidents at The Troubadour. That appearance shook the rafters and became famous, but what's less well known is how the former Beatle had re-connected with his bandmates, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. They lived together in Los Angeles and New York from 1973 to early 1975, before the ex-Beatle reunited with wife Yoko Ono. If attaching a video or photo, terms of use apply. Pretty stunningly personal portrait of John Lennon by his girlfriend, May Pang. Not so much Ringo, but with George.". Pepper. There are moments in the film when Yoko, to say the least, does not come off well notably in Pangs description of how Yoko attempted to cut off Lennons relationship with his son, Julian. At this time, Pang encouraged Lennon to reach out to family and friends. His blue eyes, she laughs. All Rights Reserved. On August 23, Lennon and Pang claimed to have seen a UFO from their terrace, which had a panoramic view of Queens. Just be aware that people are going to be talking about you. Her mother sent her to Catholic school at nearby St. Francis, where James Cagney once served as an altar boy. He appreciated everyone who's on the street: the cops, the sanitation men.". May Fung Lee Pang will be 72 in October, but was barely out of her teens when she boldly entered Apples New York offices, lied about being able to type, and secured a job at the Beatles multimedia company. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road' on November 17, 1974, in New York City Photo: Getty Images Lennon drank. She was a schmoozer, and when she began to work for John and Yoko, doing every makeshift task available avant-garde film production assistant, costume designer she had an ebullient smile and an easy-to-be-with vivacity. Ono, 33, was in her second marriage, to producer Anthony Cox. You better wonder if Paul McCartney really died in 1967? Quickly the pair began what the singer would call his "Lost Weekend," an 18-month-long whirlwind romance that took the two to the center of the madness of L.A.'s music scene, reunited a newly sober Lennon with his long-estranged son Julian, and reconnect the former Beatle to his love for rock & roll, and all as the new couple fell ever . Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. Ono suggested to Pang that she become Lennon's companion. She also said that she continued to see him, and be intimate with him, until his death. But the only way for that to happen was John not being there., The new couples time in LA resurrected Lennons lighter side, she said, both personally and creatively. Its a portrait of the May Pang who grew up in Spanish Harlem as a second-generation Chinese-American (a minority among minorities, she says), and how she fell in love with rock n roll and fell into fame with a kind of karmic destiny. "Yoko walked into my office and said, 'John and I are not getting along. The two were watching Reverend Ike on TV one night when the famous preacher suddenly yelled, "whatever gets you through the night! Mainly, Pang said, it was Ono who gave the orders and there were a lot of them. [28] Over the coming years, Pang quietly met Lennon a few times but their relationship was never rekindled. In 1970, she used her chutzpah to bluff her way into a job at the office of Allen Klein, whose management office represented Apple Records and all the Beatles but Paul. Every musician in L.A. wanted to participate, but soon Lennon's drinking and Spector's erratic behavior (which included his firing a gun in the studio control room) caused the sessions to break down. Lennon told Pang he had reconciled with Ono and their relationship was over. At 7 p.m. Monday, Pang is scheduled to talk about her life with Lennon and the Beatles at the Haverstraw King's Daughters Public Library in Garnerville. Pang insists the celebrated Troubadour incidents where John was thrown out of the iconic Hollywood club for heckling the Smothers Brothers and then for putting a sanitary napkin on his head were anomalies in Lennons stay in Los Angeles, where he was relentlessly egged on by sidekick Harry Nilsson in particular. That Yoko, trying to save the marriage, made the decision to set up John with May Pang, basically instructing the two of them to have a romantic affair. After enjoying 12 hours with May in her home-and at a nearby Gilligan's Seafood Restaurant near Pomona, NY,- us two Texans . John Lennon: May Pang was friends with the. Letting him? She would say: I just wanted you to know that I took a walk around the block.. As someone who grew up a fan of the Philadelphia sound she cites singers like Bobby Rydell and Fabian as well as the Beach Boys, she says the shock of seeing these British moptops gave way to pure affection. We hear Pangs stories about how Lennon, in a drunken fit of confronting his demons, smashed up their place in L.A., and how he would hit her sometimes. In the trailer, Pang says the romance which was later dubbed Lennon's "lost weekend" "wasn't so lost; people saw more of John than they had in previous years," and rattles off a list of stars with whom they hung out, including Mick Jagger, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Elton John and David Bowie. Afterwards, Id say to him, Where is this going? And hed say, I dont know. It also included postcards that Lennon had written to Pang during his travels throughout the world in the late 1970s. The alcohol-fueled recording sessions became legendary. [34][35] Besides the candid personal portraits, the book contains some historically important photographs, such as Lennon signing the official dissolution of the Beatles' partnership,[36] and one of the last known photographs of Lennon and Paul McCartney together. So was Lennon's drinking buddy, Harry Nilsson. But John spontaneously decided to go to L.A. on his own and asked me to go with him. 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[2], While visiting Mick Jagger at Andy Warhol's compound in Montauk, New York, Lennon and Pang saw a Scottish-style cottage for sale close to the Montauk Point Lighthouse. That hit single fueled Lennons chart-topping album Walls & Bridges, and Lennon made first live concert appearance in years at Madison Square Garden to perform the new song with his friend and co-writer. The Lost Weekend: A Love Story (directed by Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman and Stuart Samuels) had its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022, and will hit theaters in April. I want you to go out with him,'" Pang recalls in the trailer. Yoko had observed Johns infidelity, so she figured that she would let him stray with a woman she could control. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. She also told her not to tell Lennon about the calls. Asked if he was a good lover, she smiles a Cheshire cat grin. John was drinking, but that was overblown in retrospect, says Pang. I figured, if there was going to be a film about my life, I should be involved. Once they were together, Yoko would phone her incessantly, wanting to know what was happening. I had my own mindset., That was clear right from her childhood. For more information, visit www.hkdpl.org. She was reluctant at first, but Pang and Lennon were soon together. She remains friends with Julian Lennon to this day. He used to say to me, May, its your opinion. Moreover, she said Lennon would side with Pang in defiance of Ono. Pang stayed close to Cynthia Lennon, who died on April 1 of cancer, but doesn't talk to Ono, she said. One morning, Pang said, Ono came into her office and told her that she and Lennon were "not getting along." Cynthia Lennon, who died of cancer in 2015, at the age of 75. They were having problems in their marriage; they actually werent talking to each other. Ono told Pang he would start seeing someone new and suggested the two get together, she said. She wanted to be a model, but the modeling agencies told her she was too "ethnic". May Pang. It was something I loved. "I was devastated," she said of Cynthia Lennon's death. Music was my savior, she said. We see Pangs photograph of Bob Gruen snapping his famous photograph of Lennon in a New York City T-shirt. May and John returned to New York in the late summer of 1974, to begin work on John's album Walls And Bridges and "get away from the bottle". Pang believes Ono chose her to be the couples personal assistant because she was efficient. In a way thats as casually stirring as it it surprising, we see them bury the acrimony and rediscover their friendship. 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