Geraldo with infidelities and 5 marriages should apologize to everyone he attempted to demean,sensationalize and belittle. Hopefully May sold a lot of books after this show.
Geraldo has always been a prick, but she stood up to him very well. John would've probably been better off if he had stayed with this woman instead of returning to that nutjob Yoko.
Wow. May Pang is impressive. She stood her ground while Geraldo and everyone else tried to dig up dirt on John and her. She's intelligent, poised and absolutely charming. I'm sure John was the better for having known her. Without her, God knows what would have happened to him. In this instance, Yoko was a great matchmaker.
@@michaelmall4447 although I totally agree with you, John never should have abandoned his wife (Cynthia) and his very own child in the first place, for a roll in the hay with this witch! However, May Pang was such a blessing. She even got John to re-establish his relationship with Julian.
John was well oriented so to speak, both these women were "nut busting" material, he most likely relieved his self by loving both of them, and I would assume that there was threesomes going on in the midst.
@@magneto7930 John didn’t abandon his wife Their marriage did not work out because she cheated on him various times I think that Yoko was like a guardian angel to John May Pang is also a good woman but she is jealous of Yoko because John chos to stay with her The true evil witch was the disgusting Cynthia Powell because besides the fact that she cheated on John, she wouldn’t let him see Julian and when John would write letters to Julian, the disgusting Cynthia chick would return to sender, and Julian never knew about them There is a lot more that I could say about the disgusting Cynthia chick, but I will just end this by asking you to please stop making false accusations against John and Yoko I will repeat that if there is a villain in the story, it is the disgusting Cynthia Powell
I wanted to hear what May had to say, but Geraldo, being the asshole that he is, kept interrupting her playing prosecuting attorney trying to discredit and demean her. Many of the audience acted skeptical toward her as well but May held her composure.
I think May had been around high society long enough to not worry about the commoners. Her answers were nuanced with things those people could not even imagine.
@@ccdogpark Geraldo was the inspiration that led to Faux news. No decency equals profits, because typical people are hungry for information especially if it helps them feel their mundane life is somehow better...
Exactly ! I didn't know this tape existed but I "knew" the story; would have loved to have heard more (from her) and less about Geraldo and his "connection" to Lennon; Once a blowhard...
May was perfect back in the day. I remember her book and I recall the crappy hypocritical press she had to put up with like Geraldo's sanctimonious interview here. I had no idea she was so classy and smart. John goofed going back with Yoko. May was a gem. God bless her.
May was like Cythia Lennon: Comfortable, but boring, for John. John like the willfulnes, and idosyncratic attitudes and behaviors that were Yoko's. May and Cynthia were just normal chicks. John wanted something spicier. John used May and Cynthia as place holders. But, that is not what he wanted long term. John always wanted some kind of tension or voltage in his relationships. He'd was bored without that. Interestingly May would have been a better fit for Paul. Paul seems to like women who are inert, when it comes to "voltage" in a relationship.
@@KenTeel Well, speaking of Paul, he certainly had his hands full some years ago with that one-legged kook that he married and fathered a child with before finally settling in nicely with his current high- society, dame
Indeed -- this came off like a cross-examination under oath rather than an interview. Geraldo is indeed a schmuck -- a Trump-humping schmuck at that!! 🤢🤮
May Pang held her ground very well and detaches the bracketing of her book with Goldman’s nasty hatchet job with ease. Geraldo is an unpleasant human being - “American geisha” is pretty demeaning. May did a fine job in reconnecting John with his friends and son. The talk of Lost Weekend ultimately comes from Yoko via John.
John really hit the jackpot with May - and he idiotically left her to return to The Witch just as they were in the process of buying a house together, and days before he was due to go to New Orleans to see Paul and possibly write with him again. Had he stayed with May, I reckon he'd be living happily back in the UK today.
@@kingcassius2586 john was controlled by yoko [despite his claims otherwise]. she, like most abusers, created a wedge between him and his family. he was basically isolated spending most of his time in bed and high. sean had a nanny so that lennon could do so. she made up some crap about taking "directional" trips to get him out of town so that she could more easily engage in her liaisons] Yoko imagined that John would be her ticket to stardom but her lack of actual talent kept getting in the way. she always felt herself to be his superior. What she didn't count on was his epiphany during his sailing trip where he almost died. by going through the storm, he came out the other side revitalized. and in fact at the end the marriage was coming apart. this is all documented publicly and I also have direct knowledge from people I know who worked with her.
When John was with May...(late 1973-early 1975)...they lived in L.A...she got him back seeing Julian again...they were living in a beach house in Santa Monica...he was working on an album with Harry Nilsson...hanging out with Paul & Ringo at the beach house...jam sessions...working on his own material....talked about MAYBE a Beatles reunion concert in late 1974...MAYBE in Syracuse NY...possibly going to New Orleans in early 1975 to write and hang out with McCartney...all these things were on the table....then...he went back to Yoko at the Dakota...and that was it. My wife & I had a chance to spend and evening with May....nice lady!!!
@@sharynloshakoff5404 Dictionary definition is: a long term affair with a person who is married to someone else. Don't think it matters who instigated it.
@@treasurehunteruk9718 Yes, it does matter when the wife sets up her husband with another woman. Imagine Princess Diana setting up Charles with Camilla. It changes the narrative, doesn’t it.
I was fortunate enough to be one of the musicians who performed at the after party at The Troubadour celebrating the release of May Pang’s documentary about John Lennon’s “Lost Weekend”. Between sets, Chris Carter came out and interviewed May on stage. She was awesome! She was so candid and so ernest and eloquent; and the crowd loved her. There was a time when the expression “you never know what goes on behind closed doors“ meant something. Nowadays, it seems like everything is out on the table, but May has weathered it all with a degree of humanity, class and style that is so rare and endearing. John and Paul, George, Ringo and Julian & Cynthia were very fortunate for the year and a half that May Pang was John’s life partner.
Read the book. Re-read the book. And again. I don't what was so addictive about Yoko, But May was the best person ever. So many other artists and others said he was at his best with May. Yoko must have felt like she was losing John. Instead, we all lost him.
Yes. He felt so abandoned by his own mother. Yoko ruled him with an iron fist like Aunt Mimi but could also joke like Julia, his mother. And he perceived her as Deep. Love is love. For whatever reason, he was struck by her. She bugs Me no end. 🎉
*This is the truth about Yoko Ono.* Yoko Ono is a powerful witch. She used powerful occult energy, imperceptible to conventional people, to overpower and control John Lennon. The reason why her singing sounds like the wailing of a witch is because she is one. A normal person cannot make this sound, it is impossible. Yoko used to go to witches meetings in New York, driven there by her chauffeur. In Peter Jackson's 'Get Back' she appears to be just quietly sitting in the room, what she is actually doing is training powerful occult energy on John Lennon. A suitably gifted medium, psychic or shaman would be able to perceive this, conventional people would not. The reason why so many dislike her, some intensely, is because they are picking up on what she is. She is very, very with the dark side, or in biblical terms, the satanic side.
Dark witch you mean. I’m a witch and use it for good. I absolutely agree with everything else you said though. It was absolutely bizarre how he dropped his first son like he never existed, left him nothing, and took Yoko’s last name. Absolutely no one with their head screwed on properly would set their man up with another woman.
@@heatherchandler1184 literal, creo q lo hizo para saber si lo q le estaba haciendo a john le estaba funcionando o no, alguien dijo q lo mando con may para quedarse en casa con su amante pero no creo, cual amante?! Si ella desde q mataron a john no a tenido a nadie, en conclusión de todo esto quería quizás q el se muriera para quedarse con todo, porq ella sabía q después de tantos años de convivencia con una pareja lo suyo le pertenece, aquí hay gato encerrado, empezando por lo de Julian, q no le quiso dar nada de lo q quedo de John, q si el lo quería tenia q comprarlo, el mismo lo dijo en una entrevista
Ella le hizo algo, todo este rollo huele a brujeria y bn oscura y densa, porq q casualidad después de su muerte ella es la única heredera de todo lo q el dejo
Sad that Geraldo turned into a schmuck. May Pang was the BEST THING that happened to John. He was creative, he saw his friends but most importantly May got Julian and Cynthia to spend time with John. Yoko just wanted his money and his fame...she is a controlling sociopath...John should have stayed with May.
The trendency over recent years for everyone to reassess Yoko and almost see her as a saint. May Pang comes across in this footage as completely honest, very charming but most importantly honest. I for one believe everything says in this interview and that means a lot as i can be very cynical. 1. She did choose May. She wanted to control the situation. May says this directly in this interview. 2. Having watched and listened to her words about Yoko's - 'she scared lots of people in the house', and how 'very intimidating' she was and the phoning at 3 or 4 in the morning...This does not paint a picture of a kind person, even not a decent individual. Rather a controlling and cruel dominator. 3. Years on and Yoko ignore May completely, walking away and not even acknowledging her in a public accidental encounter - or near encounter. Paul over the years has bent over backwards to accommodate Yoko and even defends her to this day. I am not sure about if he may be doing so simply as Yoko is someone you don't want to stand up against. I was trying to ignore the vitriol and reassess Yoko and give her a more positive consideration. However, having watched this and the dignified sincerity of May Pang I can only be honest with myself and draw the conclusion that Yoko was and is the preying and controlling vulture she once was viewed as. I for one am not going to let her off the hook but n or am I going to blame Lennon for everything about that hedonistic time. With all his issues, and yes, he had many to deal with. he still was a grown adult and his behaviour towards those he should have loved most was terrible. How Julian managed to forgive Yoko after all she did is an amazing testament of his loving and very forgiving nature. I'll will always remember what May said in this interview regarding Yoko, ''she scared lots of people.' Not an good endorsement. I will not let others make me change my mind as May Pang was there at the time, in the house and being treated with contempt by a controlling narcissist. The one positive and a big one though is to see and listen to such a beautiful soul and intelligent, articulate mind. May Pang is delightful and dignified. What's more you don't get all the 'conceptual art' bulls*** that goes with Yoko.
Geraldo's show and his "journalistic" approach is geared toward the lowest common denominator. May Pang shot down his questions with intelligence and grace. Geraldo's current gig with Fox News fits his level of sleaze.
I read her book "Loving John", it was very interesting now watching this short interview of her, I can understand now some of the pieces she wrote. It is sad that she has no relationship with Yoko Ono, obviously maybe Yoko see's it as past history and leave it at that. I like what she said, even though John is gone, his name lives on.
I liked her book and she seems upfront and sincere. But it's disgusting to watch a pos like GR try to put her on the defensive. He was a pos then, and he is now.
@@fastinbulvis2223 I saw Kurt Vonnegut in a speech at my university. His best quote was, "well how would you like it if your daughter was married to Geraldo Rivera?" which I guess she was at that time.
Yes, Yoko actually called it a "kiss and tell book." Ha! She arranged it. May is so together! Yoko wasn't expecting the appreciation John would have for May.
She seemed like an intelligent and classy lady who was used and spat out then had to resort to going on gutter trash shows like this to defend herself. Poor girl.
The book is pretty interesting.. Great stories.. Like Lennon never wanting to be in the same room with McCartney and a piano 🎹.. The argument between Harrison and Lennon about Yoko being on stage.. for the charity concert.. The making of Rock and roll.. with Phil Spector..
@@iamjoaovicente John was blind as a bat when he didn't wear his glasses, but when he wore them, which is what he began doing in 1967, he saw perfectly.
@@MrAschiff You got that right!! You'd die if you saw the 350 pound, pig-nose, big mouth, fat ass, Dollar Store queen cow my ex-husband left me for. We had a wonderful marriage, but his heart was with the fat cow he lived with prior to marrying me. The heart wants what the heart wants.
I always felt John was very Creative In this period . Mind Games to WALLS and Bridges To Rock n Roll Album. Fame with Bowie and his work with Harry Nilson. Yoko was very Controlling of John . Paul was lucky to have Linda . May is a gentle Soul . I believe John loved her. John loved Yoko as well. If John Stayed with MAY. I believe the BEATLES were on course to reform or have done something. John , Ringo and Paul were in LA. But Fate is a funny thing. I sometimes think what could have been.
It WAS his most creative period post Beatles. After John went back to Yoko, he lived the life of a hermit until just before his death. For about 5 years he disappeared from the public completely. May Pang was good for John.
May was great for him, she encouraged John to reach out to Julian and keep in contact. Plus he loooked happy. Love May and her pictures and kind words.
May Pang is kind, smart, and classy. Geraldo is abrasive and bullying here. I'll never understand why John returned to Yoko, a controlling narcissistic person. I sincerely believe that if he had remained with May, bought the house for them, he would still be alive. I've always felt that Yoko had a very dark aura around her. Still does.
May Pang features for a memorable moment or two in Bowie’s FASHION video.....and also later on was married to Bowie’s producer Tony Visconti for a while
Well said Julie... What beggars belief, is that John (Lennon) was so "controlled" by the ugly manipulator...... (Yoko) Here, in John's home nation (England) & in particular London, Yoko WAS known as "The Yellow Peril" (obviously because of THE Public perception that "she broke the Beatles" - sadly, partially true !
She was a stupid young lady, though. She gave in the having an affair with a married man whose wife still called him 20x per day and kept saying John wasn’t ready “yet” to come home to her. What was May thinking? It was clearly inevitable.
"Lennon and Ono were having marital problems, and Ono suggested to Pang that she become Lennon's companion. 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. She pointed out that Lennon had said he found Pang sexually attractive. Pang replied that she could never start a relationship with Lennon, as he was her employer and married. Ono ignored Pang's protests and said that she would arrange everything. Ono later confirmed this conversation in an interview."
What would feminists, the me too movement think of Yoko and how she orchestrated her young impressionable female employee to have an affair with her husband? The media and the feminists have let Yoko slide on this issue -- selective outrage
How the inferior ones hate the great ones. Lennon was one of the great musicians and poets of the 20th Century. But the cat is desperate to find his "flaws. So what? So he was skinny. At least his girlfriend stands up for him.
Why is this guy talking about HER life as if he knows about it more than herself? He wouldn't be blaming the guy if it was the other way around. What a despicable man!
1st of all Geraldo was kind of a D#%k, but that was the pull in 80s talk shows. I was born in 68' and some of my first memories are looking at the Sgt Pepper album like a picture book. In 1980 when I was 12 we lived in So CA, and my 6th grade teacher was very pretty and just 26 years old. My dad happened to be on business in NY when John Lennon got shot, and I made some stupid, 12 yr olds comment like I hope it wasn't my dad, and she was pissed at me. At 12 I very much knew who he was, and dbl fantasy was big at the time, etc, but I didn't understand the magnitude of how important JL was to people from say 25-40 at the time, and now I totally get it. True story and on that day, which would have been December 9th, 1980 my teacher should have probably stayed home, because she was that heartbroken over what had happened!
So two years of adultery with a woman who is not your wife is a lost weekend? John was a big boy and he could obviously live whatever kind of life his conscience allowed him to live but don't call it a lost weekend.
I have so much respect for may, if John hadn’t been so insecure they might have made it as a couple but the long tentacles of ono lured him back. Still can’t see what he saw in ono blind Freddy can see her selfish plans! They say love is blind and this proves it.
Just saw an interview May did last year in 2023 and she said Yoko wanted him back and for about a month she tried everything she could think of but he refused, then she preyed on onr of his worst fears and that was due to Immigration
I've visited The Dakota. John's tunes remain fabulous! All 4 fabs were greater than the sum (if that makes sense). I still send notes to Paul because we share an 18 June birthday. Good Beatles fun! Love, Cav. *
On the outside maybe he gave the impression of being a better man, but inside he felt desolate without Yoko and used alcohol to disguise it. Yes he felt love toward May but he needed Yoko. He once said he hoped he died first because he wouldn't want to live without her. He did make a couple of fantastic albums in that 18 months granted, but he was brilliantly musically artistic that he'd produce wonderful music whatever was going on in his life, good and bad.
May Paing was very beautiful and charming, I would have liked John to stay with her. Well, she helped John a lot during the brief time when Yoko left him.
Geraldo with infidelities and 5 marriages should apologize to everyone he attempted to demean,sensationalize and belittle. Hopefully May sold a lot of books after this show.
GERALDO IS THE ULTIMATE JACKASS.
I agree. May was very pretty.
Geraldo is a dirtbag. I only watched it because of May, she's like an angel in the middle of a dark cloud.
Geraldo is so creepy.
Yeah what an ass
This was meant as a hit interview but she definitely stood her ground and turned it around on them! So eloquent and graceful. Good for her.
Geraldo has always been a prick, but she stood up to him very well. John would've probably been better off if he had stayed with this woman instead of returning to that nutjob Yoko.
@John Jacob Astor: Agree 💯
May Pang is a classy lady.
It was Geraldo, after all. Look where he is now...FoxNews.
@@jltrem Better than CNN (Communist News Network).
May Pang is pure class. I’ve seen all her interviews. She’s all class. Wonderful woman.
Of course. Do you think Ono would hire just anybody to work for her ...
Yes she is, beside John Lennon, she is very interesting to listen too.
She rode the devils dck..
and Geraldo Rivera is a self aggrandizing fool.
WTF? This video must be from 1988.
Wow. May Pang is impressive. She stood her ground while Geraldo and everyone else tried to dig up dirt on John and her. She's intelligent, poised and absolutely charming. I'm sure John was the better for having known her. Without her, God knows what would have happened to him. In this instance, Yoko was a great matchmaker.
If I was john back in 1974 I would have taken May Pang by the hand , gone to the nearest airport, fly to London never to return. Happy Ending!
@@michaelmall4447 although I totally agree with you, John never should have abandoned his wife (Cynthia) and his very own child in the first place, for a roll in the hay with this witch! However, May Pang was such a blessing. She even got John to re-establish his relationship with Julian.
John was well oriented so to speak, both these women were "nut busting" material, he most likely relieved his self by loving both of them, and I would assume that there was threesomes going on in the midst.
well he got shot.
@@magneto7930 John didn’t abandon his wife
Their marriage did not work out because she cheated on him various times
I think that Yoko was like a guardian angel to John
May Pang is also a good woman but she is jealous of Yoko because John chos to stay with her
The true evil witch was the disgusting Cynthia Powell because besides the fact that she cheated on John, she wouldn’t let him see Julian and when John would write letters to Julian, the disgusting Cynthia chick would return to sender, and Julian never knew about them
There is a lot more that I could say about the disgusting Cynthia chick, but I will just end this by asking you to please stop making false accusations against John and Yoko
I will repeat that if there is a villain in the story, it is the disgusting Cynthia Powell
I wanted to hear what May had to say, but Geraldo, being the asshole that he is, kept interrupting her playing prosecuting attorney trying to discredit and demean her. Many of the audience acted skeptical toward her as well but May held her composure.
I think May had been around high society long enough to not worry about the commoners. Her answers were nuanced with things those people could not even imagine.
Yeah and he probably never even heard of Faux news at this point in his life.
@@ccdogpark Geraldo was the inspiration that led to Faux news. No decency equals profits, because typical people are hungry for information especially if it helps them feel their mundane life is somehow better...
Exactly ! I didn't know this tape existed but I "knew" the story; would have loved to have heard more (from her) and less about Geraldo and his "connection" to Lennon; Once a blowhard...
Typical Geraldo. But May, bless her heart, was like an angel in the middle of a firing squad. She said what she had to say and they didn't break her.
Huge respect for May in this somewhat nasty interview.
Se le veía incomoda con las preguntas q le hacían, se le nota q sufrió mucho por la muerte de John
May was perfect back in the day. I remember her book and I recall the crappy hypocritical press she had to put up with like Geraldo's sanctimonious interview here. I had no idea she was so classy and smart. John goofed going back with Yoko. May was a gem. God bless her.
Yeah but we found out is that they never really broke up, they still saw each other, Yoko should have let them be together..
It's obvious that John preferred May over Yoko
Rivera's a legendary clown.
May was like Cythia Lennon: Comfortable, but boring, for John. John like the willfulnes, and idosyncratic attitudes and behaviors that were Yoko's. May and Cynthia were just normal chicks. John wanted something spicier. John used May and Cynthia as place holders. But, that is not what he wanted long term. John always wanted some kind of tension or voltage in his relationships. He'd was bored without that. Interestingly May would have been a better fit for Paul. Paul seems to like women who are inert, when it comes to "voltage" in a relationship.
@@KenTeel Well, speaking of Paul, he certainly had his hands full some years ago with that one-legged kook that he married and fathered a child with before finally settling in nicely with his current high- society, dame
May spoke very eloquently and stayed dignified throughout the interview, despite the rude presenter
I would give her credit for putting a bond and relationship back for Julian and John. Julian was the prize gem during that time.🙏🌹♥️
Geraldo, pacing around like he's an attorney. What a smuck.
He is an attorney.
@@Richbar-qe6bx The point its an interview not a deposition.
@@artlover1477 I think you mean schmuck.
Geraldo has always been a smuck. That's his schtick.
Indeed -- this came off like a cross-examination under oath rather than an interview. Geraldo is indeed a schmuck -- a Trump-humping schmuck at that!! 🤢🤮
May is so sweet, and eloquent at the same time. Nice girl!
I concur. But 1 thing. May is in her 70's now. So calling her a "Girl" sounds/reads ridiculously.
Love her honesty. Geraldo trying smash her reputation to bits, and getting his arse handed to him. And compared to Yoko, she's gorgeous.
Agreed, much better looks and personality than Yoko.
May truly loved and inspired John Lennon .....
May Pang held her ground very well and detaches the bracketing of her book with Goldman’s nasty hatchet job with ease. Geraldo is an unpleasant human being - “American geisha” is pretty demeaning. May did a fine job in reconnecting John with his friends and son. The talk of Lost Weekend ultimately comes from Yoko via John.
My jaw hit the floor
she seems like a nice person. Very honest
She is a fantastic lady. Very beautifull and loving.
John really hit the jackpot with May - and he idiotically left her to return to The Witch just as they were in the process of buying a house together, and days before he was due to go to New Orleans to see Paul and possibly write with him again. Had he stayed with May, I reckon he'd be living happily back in the UK today.
FACTS
@@jv-ep2tc Facts can be proven. This is an opinion.
I’ll go by what John wrote in his songs and said in his interviews about whether he loved Yoko!
@@kingcassius2586 john was controlled by yoko [despite his claims otherwise]. she, like most abusers, created a wedge between him and his family. he was basically isolated spending most of his time in bed and high. sean had a nanny so that lennon could do so. she made up some crap about taking "directional" trips to get him out of town so that she could more easily engage in her liaisons] Yoko imagined that John would be her ticket to stardom but her lack of actual talent kept getting in the way. she always felt herself to be his superior. What she didn't count on was his epiphany during his sailing trip where he almost died. by going through the storm, he came out the other side revitalized. and in fact at the end the marriage was coming apart. this is all documented publicly and I also have direct knowledge from people I know who worked with her.
@@jv-ep2tc this feels like the most accurate description ever presented
When John was with May...(late 1973-early 1975)...they lived in L.A...she got him back seeing Julian again...they were living in a beach house in Santa Monica...he was working on an album with Harry Nilsson...hanging out with Paul & Ringo at the beach house...jam sessions...working on his own material....talked about MAYBE a Beatles reunion concert in late 1974...MAYBE in Syracuse NY...possibly going to New Orleans in early 1975 to write and hang out with McCartney...all these things were on the table....then...he went back to Yoko at the Dakota...and that was it. My wife & I had a chance to spend and evening with May....nice lady!!!
oh lucky you! where?
Geraldo would freak out if someone treated him like this.
What a generous woman.
@Henryshuman
Get over it
@Henryshuman
You wouldn't know the truth if you tripped over it. Ignorant simpleton.
Why Lennon chose Ono over this articulate and beautiful woman is one of humanity’s enduring mysteries.
Only for the green card
Mk ultra
Because he loved her?
@@minnesotom about mk?
@@artusdracus99 My reply was to the OP
May Pang was seriously pretty, I wouldn't blame any guy for being attracted to her.
Plus she is a kind person, who helped John reconnect with Julian.
@@piscesempress1978 absolutely! Abandoning his wife and his very own child for a roll in the hay was the one unforgivable chapter of John's life.
She was honest too.
i'd smash
Heck, she still is!
She wasn't his "Mistress", she was his girlfriend.
He was married at the time, so an extra marital affair is called a mistress.
@@treasurehunteruk9718 even when the wife arranges the relationship?
@@sharynloshakoff5404 Dictionary definition is: a long term affair with a person who is married to someone else. Don't think it matters who instigated it.
@@treasurehunteruk9718 Yes, it does matter when the wife sets up her husband with another woman. Imagine Princess Diana setting up Charles with Camilla. It changes the narrative, doesn’t it.
@@sharynloshakoff5404 So what is your definition of May Pang's position?
I was fortunate enough to be one of the musicians who performed at the after party at The Troubadour celebrating the release of May Pang’s documentary about John Lennon’s “Lost Weekend”.
Between sets, Chris Carter came out and interviewed May on stage. She was awesome! She was so candid and so ernest and eloquent; and the crowd loved her.
There was a time when the expression “you never know what goes on behind closed doors“ meant something. Nowadays, it seems like everything is out on the table, but May has weathered it all with a degree of humanity, class and style that is so rare and endearing.
John and Paul, George, Ringo and Julian & Cynthia were very fortunate for the year and a half that May Pang was John’s life partner.
Read the book. Re-read the book. And again. I don't what was so addictive about Yoko, But May was the best person ever. So many other artists and others said he was at his best with May. Yoko must have felt like she was losing John. Instead, we all lost him.
He called her Mother. Definite clue there.
Yes. He felt so abandoned by his own mother. Yoko ruled him with an iron fist like Aunt Mimi but could also joke like Julia, his mother. And he perceived her as Deep. Love is love. For whatever reason, he was struck by her. She bugs Me no end. 🎉
Best person ever? She is literally the biggest leech of all, everything she could do to earn money from John's back she did
by todays standards, this interviewer - guy has a cringe factor of 10/10
I read her book "Loving John" years ago. It was good.
The dude was on a power trip walking around. She's very likable much to his negative intents.
*This is the truth about Yoko Ono.* Yoko Ono is a powerful witch. She used powerful occult energy, imperceptible to conventional people, to overpower and control John Lennon. The reason why her singing sounds like the wailing of a witch is because she is one. A normal person cannot make this sound, it is impossible. Yoko used to go to witches meetings in New York, driven there by her chauffeur. In Peter Jackson's 'Get Back' she appears to be just quietly sitting in the room, what she is actually doing is training powerful occult energy on John Lennon. A suitably gifted medium, psychic or shaman would be able to perceive this, conventional people would not. The reason why so many dislike her, some intensely, is because they are picking up on what she is. She is very, very with the dark side, or in biblical terms, the satanic side.
@@KevinShaughnessy-mt9jt Fred Seaman.
Chillz!
She's just a clown and a moron. Stop trying to act like she's some sort of secret warlock genius
Dark witch you mean. I’m a witch and use it for good. I absolutely agree with everything else you said though. It was absolutely bizarre how he dropped his first son like he never existed, left him nothing, and took Yoko’s last name. Absolutely no one with their head screwed on properly would set their man up with another woman.
@@heatherchandler1184 literal, creo q lo hizo para saber si lo q le estaba haciendo a john le estaba funcionando o no, alguien dijo q lo mando con may para quedarse en casa con su amante pero no creo, cual amante?! Si ella desde q mataron a john no a tenido a nadie, en conclusión de todo esto quería quizás q el se muriera para quedarse con todo, porq ella sabía q después de tantos años de convivencia con una pareja lo suyo le pertenece, aquí hay gato encerrado, empezando por lo de Julian, q no le quiso dar nada de lo q quedo de John, q si el lo quería tenia q comprarlo, el mismo lo dijo en una entrevista
MAY PANG IS GORGEOUS AND ATTRACTIVE!
John should have stayed with May. She was better looking and obviously more intelligent than the screaming 😱 banshee woman.
Ella le hizo algo, todo este rollo huele a brujeria y bn oscura y densa, porq q casualidad después de su muerte ella es la única heredera de todo lo q el dejo
Geraldo makes my skin crawl. What a joke. May, on the other hand, was terrific.
Sad that Geraldo turned into a schmuck. May Pang was the BEST THING that happened to John. He was creative, he saw his friends but most importantly May got Julian and Cynthia to spend time with John. Yoko just wanted his money and his fame...she is a controlling sociopath...John should have stayed with May.
I think calling her a 'sociopath' is going a bit overboard. Scheming and controlling to a remarkable degree, yes.
Geraldo was always a schmuck. I never liked him or his style of "interviewing". I clicked for her, not him. 😎
The trendency over recent years for everyone to reassess Yoko and almost see her as a saint. May Pang comes across in this footage as completely honest, very charming but most importantly honest. I for one believe everything says in this interview and that means a lot as i can be very cynical.
1. She did choose May. She wanted to control the situation. May says this directly in this interview.
2. Having watched and listened to her words about Yoko's - 'she scared lots of people in the house', and how 'very intimidating' she was and the phoning at 3 or 4 in the morning...This does not paint a picture of a kind person, even not a decent individual. Rather a controlling and cruel dominator.
3. Years on and Yoko ignore May completely, walking away and not even acknowledging her in a public accidental encounter - or near encounter.
Paul over the years has bent over backwards to accommodate Yoko and even defends her to this day. I am not sure about if he may be doing so simply as Yoko is someone you don't want to stand up against. I was trying to ignore the vitriol and reassess Yoko and give her a more positive consideration. However, having watched this and the dignified sincerity of May Pang I can only be honest with myself and draw the conclusion that Yoko was and is the preying and controlling vulture she once was viewed as. I for one am not going to let her off the hook but n or am I going to blame Lennon for everything about that hedonistic time. With all his issues, and yes, he had many to deal with. he still was a grown adult and his behaviour towards those he should have loved most was terrible. How Julian managed to forgive Yoko after all she did is an amazing testament of his loving and very forgiving nature.
I'll will always remember what May said in this interview regarding Yoko, ''she scared lots of people.' Not an good endorsement. I will not let others make me change my mind as May Pang was there at the time, in the house and being treated with contempt by a controlling narcissist. The one positive and a big one though is to see and listen to such a beautiful soul and intelligent, articulate mind. May Pang is delightful and dignified. What's more you don't get all the 'conceptual art' bulls*** that goes with Yoko.
Geraldo's show and his "journalistic" approach is geared toward the lowest common denominator. May Pang shot down his questions with intelligence and grace. Geraldo's current gig with Fox News fits his level of sleaze.
I read her book "Loving John", it was very interesting now watching this short interview of her, I can understand now some of the pieces she wrote. It is sad that she has no relationship with Yoko Ono, obviously maybe Yoko see's it as past history and leave it at that. I like what she said, even though John is gone, his name lives on.
I liked her book and she seems upfront and sincere. But it's disgusting to watch a pos like GR try to put her on the defensive. He was a pos then, and he is now.
@@fastinbulvis2223 I agree. I don't know this guy but I bet he'd interviewed a criminal with more respect. Disgusting.
@@fastinbulvis2223 I saw Kurt Vonnegut in a speech at my university. His best quote was, "well how would you like it if your daughter was married to Geraldo Rivera?" which I guess she was at that time.
Yes, Yoko actually called it a "kiss and tell book." Ha! She arranged it. May is so together!
Yoko wasn't expecting the appreciation John would have for May.
@@MrStupidHead Thanks for the KV anecdoate. Never hard that one before. He was a neighbor in NYC. Very salty, but unpretentious and approachable.
She seemed like an intelligent and classy lady who was used and spat out then had to resort to going on gutter trash shows like this to defend herself. Poor girl.
She was a lizard too
May is a beautiful girl and smart too.
The book is pretty interesting..
Great stories..
Like Lennon never wanting to be in the same room with McCartney and a piano 🎹..
The argument between Harrison and Lennon about Yoko being on stage.. for the charity concert..
The making of Rock and roll.. with Phil Spector..
may pang was waaaay more attractive than yoko
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder
@@MrAschiff except when the beholder thinks yoko is attractive lol but john was as blind as bat, so that explains it all
@@iamjoaovicente John was blind as a bat when he didn't wear his glasses, but when he wore them, which is what he began doing in 1967, he saw perfectly.
@@MrAschiff You got that right!! You'd die if you saw the 350 pound, pig-nose, big mouth, fat ass, Dollar Store queen cow my ex-husband left me for. We had a wonderful marriage, but his heart was with the fat cow he lived with prior to marrying me. The heart wants what the heart wants.
May was very attractive and has a very nice personality back in the day, it’s a shame that John went back to Yoko.
May is smokin' hot
May Pang is Gorgeous!
For sure.
I always felt John was very Creative
In this period .
Mind Games to WALLS and Bridges
To Rock n Roll Album.
Fame with Bowie and his work with
Harry Nilson.
Yoko was very Controlling of John .
Paul was lucky to have Linda .
May is a gentle Soul .
I believe John loved her.
John loved Yoko as well.
If John Stayed with MAY.
I believe the BEATLES were on course to reform or have done something.
John , Ringo and Paul were in LA.
But Fate is a funny thing.
I sometimes think what could have been.
we have all their solo albums that followed! great stuff!!
It WAS his most creative period post Beatles. After John went back to Yoko, he lived the life of a hermit until just before his death. For about 5 years he disappeared from the public completely. May Pang was good for John.
May was great for him, she encouraged John to reach out to Julian and keep in contact. Plus he loooked happy. Love May and her pictures and kind words.
Love May Pang! She was perfect for John! ❤
well, he wasn't good for her. the best thing is that she went on to live her own life, and not cater for all Johns' needs as genius as he was
The beginning of the end of TV journalism.
Heraldo has always been sleazy.
My late Father could not stand Geraldo...
Yeah and now he is a professional liar for Faux news.
May Pang is kind, smart, and classy. Geraldo is abrasive and bullying here. I'll never understand why John returned to Yoko, a controlling narcissistic person. I sincerely believe that if he had remained with May, bought the house for them, he would still be alive. I've always felt that Yoko had a very dark aura around her. Still does.
Yoko's grotesque art pieces reflect that dark aura.
May Pang is beautiful, genuine and cool + I like how she talks, softly with a real NYC accent.
May Pang features for a memorable moment or two in Bowie’s FASHION video.....and also later on was married to Bowie’s producer Tony Visconti for a while
Nobody loves you when you’re down and out…Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground. RIP.
From people that were actually in her life, Yoko does not seem like the peace and love type, given how she treats people
She handled it with class and was very straight forward. Geraldo was just plain rude
Geraldo always had to place himself in the story ("John and I were pretty close" etc; yeah, _sure_ you were Geraldo 🙄).
Stop hating
@@chadk890
No, you stop exaggerating
I know , delusional Gerry , he was young, had long hair and did an interview with the dude so now he envisions how 'close' they are lol
Geraldo is so offensive. She is lovely
Well said Julie...
What beggars belief, is that John (Lennon) was so "controlled" by the ugly manipulator...... (Yoko)
Here, in John's home nation (England) & in particular London, Yoko WAS known as "The Yellow Peril"
(obviously because of THE Public perception that "she broke the Beatles" - sadly, partially true !
She was a stupid young lady, though. She gave in the having an affair with a married man whose wife still called him 20x per day and kept saying John wasn’t ready “yet” to come home to her. What was May thinking? It was clearly inevitable.
May is much better looking by far.
That man is so awful, and May Pang is such a beautiful human being.
She was way hotter than Yoko.
I didn't know about her, but now I found that she is so humble, considerable and good looking.
"Lennon and Ono were having marital problems, and Ono suggested to Pang that she become Lennon's companion. 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. She pointed out that Lennon had said he found Pang sexually attractive. Pang replied that she could never start a relationship with Lennon, as he was her employer and married. Ono ignored Pang's protests and said that she would arrange everything. Ono later confirmed this conversation in an interview."
What would feminists, the me too movement think of Yoko and how she orchestrated her young impressionable female employee to have an affair with her husband? The media and the feminists have let Yoko slide on this issue -- selective outrage
@JustinHerbert - Yoko was ahead of her time when it came to "sharing the wealth"
Fair point
Geraldo lol 😂🤣 what a UNTALENTED Instigator ! He Started all fake T V slime
May pang ❤
How the inferior ones hate the great ones. Lennon was one of the great musicians and poets of the 20th Century. But the cat is desperate to find his "flaws. So what? So he was skinny. At least his girlfriend stands up for him.
Why is this guy talking about HER life as if he knows about it more than herself? He wouldn't be blaming the guy if it was the other way around. What a despicable man!
Hes such an arsehole...smh..im glad may stood her ground 👍🏻💯 disqusting interview. May was perfect for john. John should have left Yoko for may.
Yoko is one smart cookie, her experiment worked.
Yoko is one calculating woman for sure.
Why is Geraldo standing in front of May like he wants her to see his manhood.?
I loved this book! I read it when it first came out.
Luv May and John together!! ❤
she was sooo fine.
A very good-looking lady.
What a lovely lady. John should have stayed with her and not gone back to 'mother'
He should've stayed with this one!
she seems more grounded in reality and I think prettier 😆
1st of all Geraldo was kind of a D#%k, but that was the pull in 80s talk shows. I was born in 68' and some of my first memories are looking at the Sgt Pepper album like a picture book. In 1980 when I was 12 we lived in So CA, and my 6th grade teacher was very pretty and just 26 years old. My dad happened to be on business in NY when John Lennon got shot, and I made some stupid, 12 yr olds comment like I hope it wasn't my dad, and she was pissed at me. At 12 I very much knew who he was, and dbl fantasy was big at the time, etc, but I didn't understand the magnitude of how important JL was to people from say 25-40 at the time, and now I totally get it. True story and on that day, which would have been December 9th, 1980 my teacher should have probably stayed home, because she was that heartbroken over what had happened!
She seems to handle this very well.
She's so beautiful
So two years of adultery with a woman who is not your wife is a lost weekend? John was a big boy and he could obviously live whatever kind of life his conscience allowed him to live but don't call it a lost weekend.
Not adultery
I have so much respect for may, if John hadn’t been so insecure they might have made it as a couple but the long tentacles of ono lured him back. Still can’t see what he saw in ono blind Freddy can see her selfish plans! They say love is blind and this proves it.
Just saw an interview May did last year in 2023 and she said Yoko wanted him back and for about a month she tried everything she could think of but he refused, then she preyed on onr of his worst fears and that was due to Immigration
OMG, she was groomed and used. The meaning otherwise, is delusional.
May is beautiful...credible testimony
I've visited The Dakota. John's tunes remain fabulous! All 4 fabs were greater than the sum (if that makes sense). I still send notes to Paul because we share an 18 June birthday. Good Beatles fun! Love, Cav. *
A snapshot of what women had to put up with back then. The body language of him standing over her while she has to sit.
I don't get John and Yoko, but May is absolutely beautiful;.
May was a gorgeous woman back in the day.
"Whatever gets you through" this interview...it's alright it's alright".
May Pang is so gorgeous
that ending was a shamelessly blatant insult to the viewer
"I remember being very angry with you" (So that I could deflect from my sins - Geraldo)
We can't decide for other people, but I've always thought that he was kinda better man when he was with her.
he found love with her and made the best music when he was with her even tho most people hated yoko , shes a strong woman
@@b67y8y
Yoko a Evil Monster.
On the outside maybe he gave the impression of being a better man, but inside he felt desolate without Yoko and used alcohol to disguise it. Yes he felt love toward May but he needed Yoko. He once said he hoped he died first because he wouldn't want to live without her. He did make a couple of fantastic albums in that 18 months granted, but he was brilliantly musically artistic that he'd produce wonderful music whatever was going on in his life, good and bad.
@@SuperAnimelover100 indeed didn't want to disagree alot strong disdain for her many people not like her
@@b67y8y
So true. :)
John's sweet bird of paradox. Wall n bridges ,1975
1974.
@@HandleThisSelection2 yes 26th September 1974
May Paing was very beautiful and charming, I would have liked John to stay with her.
Well, she helped John a lot during the brief time when Yoko left him.
I'm wondering if there are any limits to the carny depths that Geraldo wouldn't sink to?
John needed to put on a stone; He would have made the 80's incredible.........
What do you mean a stone?
@@startracker5895
14lb
lennon was at his peak 1973-1975 - number one whatever gets u thru - number one with fame
I like how open and honest she is here
I could never stand looking at Geraldo
Pang, May (1983). Loving John. Warner Books (Paperback)
i liked May Pang & thought her used by Lennon , he was lucky to have her