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May Pang was 22 when she began to work for John Lennon and Yoko Ono as a personal assistant. This is her story of life with John and Yoko.
- Sales Rank: #1168032 in Books
- Published on: 1983-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
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55 of 59 people found the following review helpful.
May Pang's account of her 18 months spent with John Lennon
By Katie Hickox
To find out the real truth on how/why John Lennon started seeing May Pang and then lived with her for nearly 18 months and lastly how he completely broke with everything in his past including his music to reunite with Yoko, read May Pang's book 'Loving John' aka 'The lost Weekend'.
May Pang was a young woman who had been working for John Lennon's manager, Allan Klein, back in the early 1970's when she became a personal assistant for the couple and worked at Yoko Ono's direction. Then, one day, Yoko told her that "it was OK for her" to start seeing John as a lover because Yoko and John weren't getting along and that Yoko would rather John sleep with her than with someone she doesn't know. May was in her early twenties and was rather naive and had no intention of starting an affair with her employer's husband but John started to pursue her once Yoko gave him the green light.
What started as a casual fling blossomed into a full fledged relationship in which May lived with John for 14 months out of the 18 months that she was seeing John. Their time together included the famous "Lost Weekend" in Los Angeles while John recorded two albums, "Rock n Roll" and "Walls and Bridges" plus the hit singles with Elton John "Lucy in the sky with Diamonds" and "whatever gets you through the night".
During the short 18 months with May, John Lennon began to hook up and see his old pals such as Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr. George Harrison visited John for the last time while John was living with May.
The book is a wonderful account of May's 18 months with John, their relationship, the recording sessions, and the inevitable but tragic breakup in which John goes back to Yoko and breaks with everything in his life, including May and his music pals and his music, in order to go back to Yoko and become a "house husband" for nearly 5 years to help raise Sean.
Much has been publicized about how JOhn went back to Yoko, but her book tells the real story of how Yoko plotted to get John back and succeeded. Before John went back to Yoko, John and May had been living together in their own apartment in NYC and John had picked out a house he was planning on buying so that they could live together in their own house. Before May's breakup with John, John and May were planning on meeting up with Paul McCartney in New Orleans because May had renewed John's interest co-writing songs again with Paul.
You'll have to read the rest of the book to find out what happens. May writes in a "tell-all" style but if you are a fan of John Lennon and want to know the truth of how he really lived his life, read this book to get the most accurate accounting of the real John Lennon.
57 of 63 people found the following review helpful.
First hand account
By realistic hysteric
To believe or not to believe - well, the more you read on John's life the more disbelief befalls you. The Ray Coleman-Eliot Mintz book is nearly unreadable as it goes overboard often (i.e., many repeats of the "John was such a super macho guy" and the oft repeated "John and Yoko are artists", as though their positions were equal. Lennon's art changed the world, Yoko's got her slight notice). Also, the mild slighting of John's work with the Beatles and comparative building up of his solo output.
Here is the account of a woman who was put in a most ridiculous position. Yoko sends May off to be John's lover. First off, if this alone doesn't convince you who wore the pants and made the rules at the Dakota, nothing will. How did Lennon deal with that? Staying in bed getting stoned all day. Wasting time.
Well, John obeys, May ends up in love with John, and it sounds as though the feelings were mutual.
Oh, and by the way, during this period with May oddly called "The Lost Weekend", John manages to record some fine albums (May assisting), make the charts, and start to see his old friends again (nearly meeting up with McCartney for the recording of Venus And Mars), something he didn't or couldn't or wouldn't (because of his depressive stupor/drug use/and dare I say Yoko's will) do during the preceeding period at the Dakota. "Lost Weekend?" Sounds more like "The Productive Weekend".
May was an enabling cure for what ailed Lennon at the time, mainly fear and loathing of his life at the Dakota, it would seem. He was quite busy during their time together. Yes, he got drunk and stupid, but he was suddenly let out of his repressive cage. He got drunk and stupid before and during the Beatles. He got stoned and stupid at the Dakota.
The drunkeness and stupidity are a small, but focused upon fragment of the John and May story. The fact that May continued in the music biz attests that she was at least a small catalyst for Lennon to resume his art. It is she whispering John's name on the recording "#9 Dream".
Anyway, seems the folks at JohnandYoko, Inc. have continually done their best to demean May's account of what happened when she and John were a couple. That's another point in favor of the feeling this book is true, otherwise they'd have nothing to fear.
Word is John continued to pine for May up until the end of his life. It doesn't seem unlikely, for during the time he spent with May, it seems he was allowed to be, or at least not prevented from being John Lennon.
Hats off to Ms. Pang for taking all the crap from the promoters and believers of the "official" manufactured JohnandYoko myth.
I found nothing unbelievable in or about this book. Why does it upset people so?
A question for you all - if John had had access to the internet at he time, do you believe we'd still be reading the same "Official" stories?
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
The Japanese Puppet Master Controlling Her Husband and His Mistress.
By James R. Holland
For all those people who have puzzled over the famous Annie Leibovitz "Rolling Stone" photograph of a nude John Lennon in fetal position lying on the sofa and snuggling with a fully-clothed and very bored looking Yoko, this book will answer your questions about this haunting portrait, which was taken the afternoon of Lennon's murder on Dec. 8, l980. The portrait of Lennon apparently clinging to and kissing a stone-faced Yoko was reported by Leibovitz to have pleased both Yoko and John. John said to Annie, "You've captured our relationship exactly. Promise me it'll be on the cover." John was dead five hours later. The photo session was never completed but the test Polariod picture did appear on magazine covers all over the world.
This book by May Pang, the girlfriend/mistress Yoko chose for her husband doesn't directly discuss the above described portrait because May wasn't present at the time of it's creation, but her book indirectly answers all the questions viewing the picture raises.
It's amazing this story of their ten years together, which Pang originally joked with John about and called "Pang Remembers" was ever written and published. "John suddenly sounded very happy. I had been kidding him, but I realized he liked the idea of my speaking out. It was just like John. He would have liked to have me relieve him of the responsibility of telling the truth." John almost never told the truth. He said what Yoko told him to say even if it didn't make an iota of sense.
Yoko was Japanese. In her culture "I knew it was a tradition in Japan for wives of the upper class to understand the need of their husbands to have a mistress. In Japan often the wife and mistress were friends. I was not a Japanese mistress, however and the arrangement did make me uncomfortable and embarrassed."
Yoko pushed both John and May into a relationship. She had been working as their personal assistant for several years anyway. Yoko felt that since she and John were "not getting along and had been arguing and growing apart" that Yoko felt that she'd "rather see him going out with you (May) than with someone else, someone who might hurt him." Yoko probably also knew May wouldn't want to trap John by becoming pregnant even though John thought he was sterile from taking too many drugs over the years. He was apparently wrong because Yoko became pregnant with Sean after John and she were reunited.
Oddly enough once the relationship began after hours, Yoko permanently stopped May's salary for the long hours she continued to work taking care of business for both John and Yoko.Yoko also made certain that John never had any petty cash to spend.
This memoir is filled with important insights into the life of both John and Yoko. It will disappoint many of John's loyal fans, but it all fits together and the relationship is documented with photographs and accounts of witnesses. The material is incredible. A couple of unplanned Jam sessions are mentioned. As of the publication of this memoir neither tape had been released. The first jam session was the "Lennon-Jagger 'Too Many Cooks.'" The second "tape of 'Midnight Special'--the one and only time John and Paul, backed by Stevie Wonder and Harry Nilsson, played together after the breakup of the Beatles--still exists." Have those tapes been released to the public yet? This reviewer is not an expert so I don't know, but the readers may indeed know?
John kept a note pad next to his bed and often woke up at night to write down some notes or lyrics that came to him while he slept. He was always excited in the morning when he read what he'd written on the pad. In one case, John woke up and discovered he'd written an entire song that he loved. Writing songs was apparently a complete joy for John as was recording his music. John made the writing seem effortless.
This memoir contains some unbelievable material, but material that makes perfect sense in hindsight. It proves the folklore wisdom that "truth is stranger than fiction."
It's definitely a page-turner and is easy to read. It shows how Yoko was the traditional Japanese Puppet Master who stood in plain sight so she could bask in the fame of her puppets.
(For people who may not want to read a 336-page memoir on this subject, check out a more recent "Cliff Notes-like" version. May's Lennon photographs and captions book is called "Instamatic Karma". Please read my review of that 2008 book at the Amazon Listing Site for the book.)
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