May Pang reportedly started working as John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s personal assistant when she was just a teenager and fresh out of school. However, the young lady was oblivious to what she was entering. Pang apparently started taking care of their duties as soon as she was recruited, from helping them in the recording studio to traveling with them to the UK. Along with buying John and Yoko’s groceries and taking calls, Pang reportedly also “provided backup vocals on some of their tracks, including the 1971 hit single Happy Christmas (War Is Over),” according to the Daily Mail.
Things changed, though, in 1973 when Ono asked her “to go out with Lennon.” She was only 22 at the time.
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Pang said: “Yoko stepped into my office and said: ‘John and I are not getting along and I know he’s going to start seeing other people.'” This was in the recently released documentary, ‘The Lost Weekend: A Love Story,’ according to the report. I think he needs someone wonderful like you, so I want you to go out with him.
Pang, who was described as “a naive youngster… very young,” reportedly initially declined Yoko’s invitation but eventually consented after Ono assured her, “It’s OK. Do it, you should. She thought it was the ideal thing since I didn’t have a boyfriend, the daughter of Chinese immigrants said in the movie before disclosing that Ono was confident she could handle girls her age.
On October 26, 2010, in New York City, May Pang attends the curtain call for “Rain – A Tribute To The Beatles” at its opening night performance at the Neil Simon Theatre. (Image courtesy of John Lamparski/Getty Images) )
The second wife of the late singer-songwriter allegedly always maintained that she was in control of the alleged love affair between her husband and the PA, but the documentary paints a different tale by presenting Pang’s perspective. “She [Pang] insists that she and Lennon fell in love and that Ono struggled mightily to win him back after realizing her grave error in judgment. Pang narrates the documentary, which also includes testimonies from other Lennon family members, including his son Julian, who says the Beatle never seemed happier than during the months he spent with Pang, according to The Daily Mail.
John Lennon, a former member of the Beatles, attended the Broadway premiere of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road on November 21, 1974, with his lover May Pang, a former secretary.
Lennon allegedly made Pang fall in love with him even though she initially had no feelings for him. She said that John Lennon had charmed her “before I realized it.” According to a Daily Mail source, she felt distraught following their first sexual encounter and “asked him what it meant for their relationship. He lied and said he had no idea, but the next day, he pulled out his guitar and sang to her a song he had composed called Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox) about a girl who “gets me through this goddawful loneliness.”
Pang said, “John and I spent nights together, and every morning I would go to the Dakota and meet Yoko. I knew how much John meant to me, but until that moment I didn’t realize how much I meant to John. It was not a pleasant circumstance.
On October 17, 2011, in Nashville, Tennessee, May Pang, a former lover of John Lennon and author, attends the Habitat for Humanity The House the Beatles Fans Built event at Two Old Hippies in The Gulch.
Through the video, Pang also said that Ono “shut off her salary by the time their jet touched down” after learning that her husband and the PA had affections for one another and left her behind to move to Los Angeles in September 1973.
On July 29, 2015, in New York City, Yoko Ono gave a speech at the unveiling of the Amnesty International tapestry honoring John Lennon.
The movie continued by demonstrating how Pang assisted Lennon’s first wife Cynthia and their son Julian in reestablishing contact. For Julian’s sake, she stated, “I was hoping they could have some sort of closure.” Then, in 1974, Pang and Lennon moved into a modest New York apartment. Everything was going smoothly until the ex-Beatle met up with his wife backstage at Madison Square Garden during an Elton John concert in November of the same year.
Yoko Ono and John Lennon, 1940–1980, in December 1968.
When Ono called her husband to ask him to visit “a therapist who could break his smoking problem through hypnosis,” Lennon was with Pang and Lennon in Long Island in February 1975. She offered that he receive treatment at their apartment in the Dakota building. Lennon assured Pang he would return, but that did not occur. But for the next five years, they continued to see each other “often intimately” before Mark David Chapman killed him.
