John Lennon’s lover May Pang recalls being set up with by Yoko Ono
nypost.comLooking back, Pang — a lifelong Beatles fan and subject of the new documentary “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story,” in theaters April 13 —told The Post, “It’s almost surreal.
In one way, Yoko took advantage because I was naïve. But she also gave me a gift. John and I fell in love.”Beyond the expected sexual liaisons, their time together included gunplay, stoned-out jam sessions, Paul McCartney playing spy for Yoko, drunken carousing through the nightclubs of Hollywood, and at least one house trashing.It began in 1969 when 19-year-old Pang fluked into a job as an office assistant for Apple Records, the Fab Four’s label. “I asked if the Beatles ever come here,” Pang, now 72 and living in Queens, recalled. “[The office manager] just chuckled and said, ‘No.’”But he was wrong.In 1970, Lennon and Ono relocated from London to New York and visited the office. “Apple’s VP said to me, ‘Get your ass upstairs and see what they need,’” Pang recalled.What they needed was an assistant.
Pang landed the gig.It was heady work for a first-generation Chinese American who grew up in Spanish Harlem and, previously, had gotten no closer to rock stars than dancing to their records.
Early tasks included procuring flies from restaurant dumpsters for Ono’s art film “Fly.” The footage captured actress Virginia Lust, allegedly sedated, as some 200 flies, shown one at a time, exploring her body.But the most outrageous assignment came from Ono in 1973.It seemed like a typical morning in the couple’s Manhattan apartment at the Dakota building when, Pang told The Post, “Yoko said, ‘John and I have not been getting along.
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