[14], Julian began to see his father more regularly. The lovers were together about 18 months, and Pang said their physical relationship continued for awhile after Lennon returned to Ono in The Dakota. 35 Vintage Photos of May Pang and John Lennon During Their Dating Days [40][41], Pang married record producer Tony Visconti in 1989; the couple divorced in 2000. I lived it. 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. I thought the animation was brilliant, just so clever, says Pang. John Lennon, who was shot and killed Dec. 8, 1980, would have turned 75 this year. ALSO READ | Eyewitness to the Death of John Lennon, * Download the abc7NY app for breaking news alerts. [10], Pang still resides in New York City. He's your husband. It was all a lark; Pang was just going with the flow. documentaries to Albert Goldmans The Lives of John Lennon. Like many Lennon observers, Ive always felt like I knew the basic bones of it. The press keeps repeating the same stories over and over., May does admit she eventually fell for Lennon. Yoko kept pushing, but I waited for John to make the first move, says May. While working at their home office at the Dakota building, however, Pang immediately sensed a chill between her bosses. Lennon stopped drinking and concentrated on recording. If there's one thing that May Pang has been fighting for the last 28 years, it's the idea that John Lennon was depressed, isolated and out of control during . Pang remains in touch with some of the people from her time with Lennon, and Paul McCartney invited her to Linda McCartney's memorial service. Lennon later referred to this time as his "Lost Weekend". But John spontaneously decided to go to L.A. on his own and asked me to go with him. Lennon had an 18-month "long weekend" starting in 1973, separating from Ono and engaging in an affair with May Pang, the couple's assistant (via Biography). May Pang said John Lennon liked when his partner controlled him Over the course of their relationship, Pang got to know Lennon well. May Pang plans to talk about her life with John Lennon and The Beatles at 7 p.m. Monday at the Haverstraw King's Daughters Public Library, 10 West Ramapo Road, Garnerville. For more information, visit www.hkdpl.org. [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. The Beatles almost reunited in Syracuse, and it started on John Lennon Pang replied that she could never start a relationship with Lennon, as he was her employer and married. Lennon told her the view reminded him of The Mersey River in his native Liverpool. May Pang, John Lennon's Lover During "The Lost Weekend", Shares Rock 'n Lets put it this way. She was 10 years younger than Lennon (and 17 years younger than Yoko), who was her boss and a Beatle. "There's always going to be a tie there.". If he didnt, I wouldnt have gone out with him, Pang said. ", Lennon turned to Pang and said, "what a great line.". 'The Lost Weekend' tells love story between John Lennon and assistant . In March, she ran unsuccessfully for a Pomona village trustee seat, receiving 190 votes. Though Ono and Lennon married in 1969, they went through something of a rough patch in the early 1970s, prompting Ono to see if Pang would be willing to keep her husband company. [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. He and Paul McCartney mended fences and played together for the first and only time after the breakup of the Beatles (see A Toot and a Snore in '74). May (Fung-Yee) Pang (born October 24, 1950) was a personal assistant to former Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono.She later became Lennon's companion and lover, when he separated from Ono in the mid-1970s. Pang said she and Lennon remained romantically involved for several years afterward. We didnt know that at the time, Pang said. "I think he'd be all over the internet," Pang said. Now theyll see it as it was., The Lost Weekend: A Love Story is out in US cinemas on 13 April with a UK date to be announced. Less well known is the period that followed when he and Pang returned to NYC. An old interview clip of Ono featured in the trailer sees the artist call Pang "a very good assistant," and Pang explains that her job was "taking care of everything, working in the studio, doing clothes, doing the publicity.". 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. In June 1974, Lennon and Pang returned to live in Manhattan. Why AI Has Some Viewers Asking Which Film Actors Are Real. All rights reserved. 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.