Having lived through the 60s and 70s, I can say they were fun, crazy times but have to give this beautiful lady credit for the classy lady she is! Never have I heard her say a bad word about John or Yoko. Special times and memories for her and what she did to heal his relationship with Julian and Cynthia shows what a special lady she is. More class than Yoko could ever dream of!
Well...she did talk about the time John abused her by nearly choking her to death. Also she did mention how Yoko was quite deceptive in hypnotizing John to go back to her....all true things....still a classy lady, nevertheless.
Ya - she talked a ton in her book about how John repeatedly beat her up - repeatedly - and even choked her once in a jealous rage. This gets completely whitewashed and is literally never mentioned now for some reason. That John was a violent bastard even to women.
She had every right to speak her truth, that John was not always easy to deal with, and in recounting things that Yoko did to her we can clearly see and decide for ourselves that Yoko was highly manipulative, not to be trusted, jealous, vindictive, greedy, and would stop at NOTHING to get what she wanted.
I think May Pang was a better choice for John personally unfortunately she's basically was used as a 'concubine' by Yoko to keep John from his womanizing ways in California while they were briefly separated .
This interviewer is awful why doesn't she shut up let May speak plus every other word is " you no " she sounds just awful whereas May sounds so considered & clear
May is wonderful. I don't understand how the interviewer got this gig. She's got her head somewhere else and waves her hands around and keeps looking off like there's something more interesting than May.
@@AP-sd1flNot at all. Affair with a married man at the wife’s urging? Still trying to pedal that dysfunction as a true love story 50 years later? With the passage of time, meaning she’s no longer a naive 22 yo??? Nah. She’s as much of a clown in this circus as John and Yoko.
I love May Pang. She is so respectful, straight-forward, and graceful about her story with John and Yoko. She never heightens it, or sugar coats, nor does she talk any trash. She is the epitome of class.
@@andrewwian4921 Hey man, what a negative conservative view is that? The only strange thing for me is that Yoko herself decided May should be John' lover. He didn't chose her. He accepted his wife's choice. You condemn only John and May Pang...forgetting Yoko caused that involvement. What a strange mind.
@@andrewwian4921 while Yoko was walled up in the marital home the dakota with her lover Sam Green which didnt work out as Sam refused her serious infatuation with him so she invited John back in and he went back the rest is history!
What the hell is the interviewer always looking around for? Horrible interviewer, stop interrupting and making weird faces, so distracting to have her on the split screen. The documentary is very good, I saw it last night.
She is disrespectful - with every look away she’s trying to convey: ‘come on, you were just a hooker.’ But she is keen to be seen the whole time even when she takes a sip of coffee she makes sure the cam still sees her weird face and cold expression(s).
No she wasn’t. That’s why she’s still fighting to be relevant. 18 months is a BLIP in the grand scheme of life. Everyone knows Yoko. I’m just hearing of this woman.
With all due respect I feel like this interviewer was a bit elementary in her interview skills. Especially asking closed questions, using blunt phases, and talking over her guest. The documentary however is amazing and highly recommend.
I agree with all the comments referencing how distracting the interviewer, Lyndsey Parker is with constantly looking around, rolling her eyes and just not being very attentive. She comes off as disrespectful and unprofessional. May Pang did a wonderful job in giving this interview!
I read your comment one month ago and ignored this video because of it. Today it came up on its own so I decided to listen to a bit. I really enjoyed it. I thought the presenter was very caring, kept asking questions until she got an answer but in a genuinely curious way. I wasn’t watching the screen though so I recommend another listen without the visuals.
@@sweetbabyjesus6516, please don't base your choice to watch or listen to something based on comments, by me or anyone else. However, I stand by my comment as did many others, and I did watch the entire video. However, I do respect your right to express your opinion. Thank you for taking the time to reply. Peace!
I came to the comments just to say this, then found that many others saw how weird it was, she is making faces, looking all around, rolling her eyes, cutting her off, tilting her head making poses, it's all very odd. May deserves better
@@sweetbabyjesus6516 I feel that the interviewer was quite upset emotionally, and that was why she was looking around. She wasn't rude, and May certainly didn't react to her as if she was being rude.
I appreciate May Pang; she strikes me as sincere & fairly balanced about JL and her role w/ him; she's never struck me as trying to get anything except set the record straight, although she appears slightly sad & poignant which is understandable. We're not going to get this sort of personal remembrance from Yoko or others without a certain spin. Pang had a relatively short but intense time w/ John (and Yoko) but seems able to place it into a balanced context with so much time having past. Her stories line up w/ her published 1980s-90s stories. Glad to know she is friendly w/ Julian; she probably offers him a certain parental figure connection to his parents from someone still living that was there w/ them at an impressionable the time of his youth.
I enjoyed this interview but I don’t think May has to get the OK from Yoko to tell her point of view. Yoko controlled the narrative from the beginning. It is enough that Yoko put May in that position. Yoko gets zero sympathy from me. If you think people are hard on Yoko it is due to her own actions.
I listed to an old Fred Seaman interview of Johns last days....man he really said it all on how yoko was a real villian in going after him to not publish his book. She even had cops in her payroll
I agree with you! Yoko was all about herself and used John. Unfortunately, John needed a mother figure and this witch filled it! Heard from a very trustworthy source who since has passed, said John was disgusted with Yoko’s controlling! In a round about way, Yoko killed John!
Met John and May on March 4, '74 at Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas..a great memory..still have photos of them, along with Harry Nillson and Mal Evans..never published or released..gotta get on the project! Anyone interested let me know!
Based on the many interviews I've watched her give on the Lost Weekend-A Love Story documentary I've come to a very unflattering conclusion about John and Yoko. I also think she remains delusional regarding Lennon's feelings for her. If he had truly loved and wanted to be with May as much as she believed he did he would have left Yoko as quickly and as easily as he did Cynthia.
@@riverebec1 I don't know if it would have been so easy. There was a lot of money tied up in limbo at the time of the lost weekend. Also, John was trying not to be deported.
@@marthaworc7873 There was lots of money involved when Lennon was divorcing Cynthia and that didn't keep him from living with Yoko. His deportation concerns had nothing to do with whether or not he was living at the Dakota. He left May because he wanted to. Ultimately, the only person John Lennon ever cared about was himself.
May Pang was lovely in this interview. The interviewer seemed so disinterested and keep looking off to the right. May deserved someone who knows how to give an interview. Horrible interviewer.
May Pang is very interesting. I didn't care for the interviewer, at all! Fidgeting, playing with her hair. Her body language is screaming 'I'm bored'...or maybe medicated.
I was in high school during this period. I always felt that this ‘lost weekend’ should never have ended. John was so creative & doing great, I was very sad when he went back to YO. 🕉️
I think John went to May because Yoko told him to and he went back to Yoko because she told him to come back. He did whatever Yoko said. May seems like nice lady
One of the finest, most "real" interviews I have seen. Had May met John in London, after his divorce, before Yoko did, I could envision her as John's Linda, a postive, well liked part of the Beatle family. It seems John would have been much better off, and without Yoko's negative, bizarre influence the Beatle's could perhaps have endured (as the Stones have). What might have come of it, had May and Linda gotten together, as planned in New Orleans, and encouraged John and Paul to write together. I view Yoko as a calculating, manipulative groupie who saw John as her meal ticket, and who viciously, ruthlessly lashed out at anyone she viewed as a threat to her ride on the gravy train. Her "art" was trash, in my view, and her "singing" and "music" junk. Look how she treated very likable and positive Julian before and after John"s death. May seems to have mostly encouraged Lennon's good qualities, while, sadly, Yoko preyed on his weaknesses and flaws to, and her advantage, and his detriment. Thanks for one of the best Beatle's/Music interviews ever. I had no idea May Pang is a person of such depth, or that you are so impressive an interviewer.
The Beatles was over because they were sick and tired of being the Beatles, it had ran it's course, Yoko didn't break them up, she was a witch, but the guys were tired of putting up with each other, they had 10 years to get back together, and never did for reasons
I don't agree with the view that Yoko ended the Beatles. John & George didn't want to be Beatles at the end of the 1960s. They should have taken a long break then got back together after they'd created their various personal projects.
Well said, her art was trash, and as a human she was about the same as her art. She didn't allow Cynthia to go to john's funeral to pay her respects. The mother of John's first born. Didn't get to pay her respects. So sad.
Oh May! You are such a strong amazing woman. The universe put you where you were needed, you gave love and you are loved! Your heart is true, honest,loyal and fierce! Oh to have a friend like you!!! What a blessing you are! ❤️🙏🏻
May has always been one of my favorite people in The Beatles saga. She is a very good person, truly loved John, and did what she could to help him find his way back to being a proper father to Julian, a proper ex-husband on good terms with Cynthia, and getting back to writing with Paul. And she asked for nothing in return. Theirs was a true love. A stark contrast to who John ended up with, and who drained him of everything he had.
"True love" perhaps but May also recounted in her book how John beat the crap out of her over and over - multiple times, all through their time together, even choking her at one point. This repeatedly gets whitewashed - it is almost never brought up in interviews with May when discussing the "lost weekend".
@@curtandoscar What can I say? Maybe it wasn't as bad as it sounds. Maybe she overlooked it. Maybe she liked it. But the fact is, whatever he did or didn't do to her, she still loved him right to the end. And so did Cynthia. Yes, life goes on, and we make the best of it when someone departs from our lives, but we still love who we love. And this is just my personal feeling, but I think we should stop calling it a "Lost Weekend". Yoko trivialized it as that. John & May were together a year and a half, he'd stopped taking Yoko's calls, he gave Yoko crap seats to his MSG concert while May was backstage with him, and John &May were buying a house together. If anything, the "Lost Weekend" was Yoko's highly manipulative "stop smoking" session that was supposed to last a few hours, but through hypnosis and drugs, ENDED UP LASTING ALL WEEKEND. John remembered nothing afterwards, just that he kept drinking tea and throwing up. Sounds like Yoko got him back on heroin again. THAT was the REAL LOST WEEKEND! Like the guy that wakes up in Las Vegas to find out he's gotten married the night before, and a really bad tattoo! And indeed, later John must have realized Yoko had carefully timed that weekend to her fertility cycle (likely the reason she kept adjusting the date) and had gotten herself pregnant that weekend as extra insurance to reel him back. Just in case hypnotizing John, re-hooking him to drugs, and the immigration argument, didn't work to get him back to the Dakota where she could finally get her hand in his pocket (she was going for firing Seiden and grabbing John's Power of Attorney) and he insisted on going ahead with May, Yoko would sue him for as much as she could get for paternity of Sean. She would go for as much as she could get, unlike Cynthia. Plus, that would give her an excuse to bask in Johns fame big time. That's why she was always so wary about Cynthia and Julian, sensing the strong position they were actually in. That's why Yoko quickly manipulated her way into being gatekeeper against them. For Yoko it was all about finances and fame. She was determined to grab both from John to the max, no matter what HE actually wanted to do. And she could run circles around him. So yeah, comparatively, what John&Cynthia or John&May had was real love.
@@charwest9449 Wow. To suggest that "maybe" May "liked" the beatings is 1) mind blowing, and 2) means you didn't read her book Loving John. The beatings and choking were entirely non consensual, if you or anyone somehow thinks this was some sort of S&M thing. John's repeated violence towards her was inexcusable and is consistently left out of the narrative ie whitewashed even though it sure as hell was a notable fact about John. That was the point of my comment. WHY is something like this - a shameful and extraordinary fact about one of the most famous men in history - consistently whitewashed?
@@curtandoscar Yes, he was flawed. But my point is they had a real relationship. She didn't have to manipulate him to be with her, as Yoko did, because he loved her. And suhe truly cared about him as a real person, not just a "star" or a meal ticket, and was instrumental in guiding him to put his life back together. A life that was smashed by Yoko.
@@curtandoscar I'm speaking about their relationship, not the media reaction to it. But May was candid about everything. She wasn't trying to craft a certain image to boost her own.
Closure is the most cliche word ever. When you have lost a great love, there is no "closure." May is so wise...If you have regrets, how can you learn? So wise.
Fascinating. I never knew about May’s story, and her relationship with John Lennon. It goes so deep. May was present at some iconic moments in music history. I wish her peace and happiness.
I so wish he'd stayed with this lovely woman. In an alternative universe he most likely would've still been with us today and I think she would've brought out the very best in him... sliding doors!
My heart goes out to May. She is a genuine, beautiful person and you can see how her relationship with John affected her life, and how it still affects her. I agree it’s wonderful how she helped John heal some of his most important relationships; most importantly with Julian and Cynthia. ❤❤
May, you're amazing! It's unfinished business and your heart was faithful...and yet got broken. Shame on Yoko for what she did...quite simply put. You were so young and you had the entire world at your feet.. Exciting times!!! Wish the ending would have been better. Thank you for sharing your beautiful heart ❤
Wow, just came upon this interview! I read May's book years ago and was shocked at all the info then, but I learned even more now. Glad she is good and was able to move forward. Thank you so much!!
To this interviewer: Yoko has had many opportunities to tell her narrative! The public has been under her PR since John was murdered. Time for more bits of truth to come to the surface.
Way to go May. So glad you tell this story. I just watched an old Geraldo Rivera interview you did, he was a bit condescending and a bit derogatory when he interviewed you. Hope your life is great.
I've never seen this interviewer before, but she is absolutely terrific! She asked all the questions that I was hoping she'd ask from a place of knowledge. No perfunctory questions! Outstanding!!
May Pang seems more suited for John.She is real and kind and loves Julian.Such a shame how evil women like Yoko can destroy lives.This would have been a different ending for John if May Pang was in the life with John.Great lady.
Oh May, you did the best you could! How you couldn't find the courage to intervene, I will never understand. You didn't have the self-awareness created-self-confidence, to stand up, and..... I know whereof I speak. It will haunt you forever???? NO!!!!!!!! you are wrong. You live good CLEAN LOVE. IT will find YOU! You paid the price. This is meant to soothe you, May. ❤❤❤❤❤❤ so nice to have made your acquaintance🎉 thank you very much😊
Wonderful interview! And let's be clear that May is in no way a groupie, as she did not pursue Lennon. Yoko, however... anyway some years ago I contacted May and we became email pals for a while. The kindest, most clever person, she's great! Consider what May Pang brought by creating a new life for John, mending fences in Beatle Mania and giving Julian his father back.
Yup. And Paul also. Julian also. And the Greens. Fred Seaman too. And that reporter she used to present her Jackie O image after John's death. Marnie Hair too. Toshi and Tony too. Really, the list goes on and on.
People were the victim of;”the old Yoko?’What does this mean?And,if he liked May Pang better,but,not Yoko Ono,then why did he go back to Yoko Ono?What a confusing relationship this was!
i gotta agree with some comments below. The interviewer looks bored or put out to having to do this interview. At least get someone who has an interest in the person being interviewed.
Yes, I thought the interviewer behaved as though no one could see her. I don't know what she was looking at to her left, a clock, a screen? But it made her appear disinterested and distracted and seemed rude. At first I though she was rolling her eyes, but then I began to think she was looking at a clock or something.
@@claymor8241 no, just conduct the interview in a polite, attentive manner. She kept looking away and making odd faces. It was as if she didn't know she was also being filmed and she was bored or didn't like the woman she was interviewing.
May is an AMAZING lady. Her time with John brought normalcy, peace and logic to his life. I believe she knew the real John, even the John we know. If you watch interviews during that time, he's happy, funny and is a reminder of our wonderful "Beatle John"- not the bitter, man handled guy he tended to be before and after. She is a real, beautiful person and John saw that and loved her for it.
john almost died of alcohol poisoning while he was with may. all you have to do is listen to his interviews here on youtube. he almost died. but that is just what he says himself in tape recorded interviews here on youtube which you could listen to anytime for yourself
I feel sad the interviewer missed out on opportunities to ask about the John Lennon as May knew him. What were his insecurities she hinted about? What was a typical day in their lives? What did she do during the day when he worked or partied? Did they talk about what kind of future he wanted for himself? Where he wanted to live, what he liked to do? What were his thoughts about his aunt? What they typically ate at home? etc etc. Just so much to hear from her about what John was like but none of it was touched.
We appreciate you Ms Pang. God bless you for being such a wonderful soul. Regardless if all this was among the rich and famous... these things happen outside of marriage sometimes, and the memories of the persons involved remain in our hearts for whatever reason it needed to happen. God bless.
this is where i am starting to see who John post Beatles as he really was as a person in relationship with someone normal; it ties in with my perceptions of his relationship early on with Cynthia, where he was 'grounded' in normalcy, albeit he was struggling constantly with so many mega forces from his early childhood through to the end; thank goodness for May and Cynthia who provide these wonderful insights into who this Beatle was that was behind the Beatles we saw and heard;
What was it that drew Lennon back to Yoko Ono was it love or that mother figure malarky. Had Lennon stayed with lovely May Pang his story would have been so different and it could well still be with us.
Oh my god. That interviewer, she practically asked May to cry for the camera. Pink walls and a tilted head do not make up for limited vocabulary and interview skills.
54:38 she really can't keep her mouth shut...so annoying. how about letting her finish her sentence/thought...and THEN ask her about the bloody UFO!?!?!?
Nice interview, with regards to Pete Ham and Badfinger which May mentions around the 46 minute mark, "May Blues" was written by Pete Ham about May Pang. The song "Day After Day" written by Pete Ham was written about his girlfriend Beverly Ellis.
I have all the time in the world for May. She seems like someone you could really talk to about anything, it's clear why John loved her. I'm very glad that John had this happy period with her in his short life, and I wish they could have had the chance to see the relationship through. But I guess what Ono started Ono also wanted to finish. She doesn't care about anyone else's feelings.
@@heyday179yoko set up the whole relationship and was adamant that it was going to be a thing. But once she saw John getting along great without her, she snatched him right back. I don't think she expected him to be able to do without her and be so happy and serious with someone else who was just meant to be a fling during their trial separation. It got her attention really quick.
Very informative interview, even though it comes off more like an interrogation. I had the opportunity to have a brief chat with May in New York only last week, at a meet and greet, and for May Pang fans out there Im happy to confirm that in person she is much prettier, possessing a natural charm and sparkle than the brutal aesthetics of the internet allow! Looking forward to checking out the film. 👍
Lyndsey comes off not very good here, she acts like she's in a bad mood or something, she's snippy and short with May, like she would rather be somewhere else
Who is this person interviewing? She doesn’t seem the type that one would warm up to that’s for sure. She doesn’t seem to pay attention most of the time even tho she inserts opinions & assumptions. Her eyes are all over the place. In fact the more the interview goes on the more annoying she becomes. eek!
The myth of John rekindling the relationship with Yoko at Madison Square Gardens was just Yoko PR. In May's book she details how John had stopped taking Yoko's calls, and given her crappy seats to his concert, despite her hounding him for better seats for weeks. May was Johns lady and Yoko was just FIRMLY the ex.
When you examine how narcissists conduct relationships with others, it's very clear that John was trapped in an emotionally abusive and manipulative relationship with a narcissist. All the classic signs are there, right down to how she did her best to dominate his life and cut everybody else out of it. Some Yoko defenders attack me for saying this and scream, "John was a grown man who loved her!! He wanted to be with her!!!" And I'm not saying he didn't. Truth be told, John put up this big front of being confident and macho and so determined to be free, but he was a child who'd been abandoned by his father then his mother, and was raised by very strong, controlling woman. It's the only thing he knew. He couldn't function with Cyn because she was allowing him to be the boss and be in control, and secretly, he feared having the control in a relationship. He was too insecure to take total control in any relationship. That's why Yoko appealed to him. She love-bombed him initially with constant attention, which he also craved because of his childhood abandonment from his parents....and then, like Aunt Mimi, she took over to become the boss and he allowed it because that's what he knew and was most comfortable with. Sadly, it's very hard for a person to escape a relationship with a narcissist for that very reason. Fear of the unknown and/or the unfamiliar.
@@Chinachik Also its worth adding Johns sister Julia Baird said in a recent interview that Johns mum Julia was small and diminutive with slightly slanted eyes like Yoko who John called mother too!So it was a psychiatrists dream!I often wonder why yoko did an interview where she mentioned the route her and John took from the dakota to the recording studio especially after being over 5 years out of the music business and even the head of security wanted more staff which she refused! Very strange!
@@marksimons4108 Very strange indeed. I remember there was talk of possible conspiracies immediately after John’s murder, including a recording of a conversation he’d had with Jack Douglas that night, something that scared Jack so much he erased the tapes after finding out about the shooting at The Dakota. That whole night and some of the events surrounding it were very disturbing to me. It was horrible and not something I will ever forget.
Good interview with May. I read her book years ago and and always rooted for her. My heart breaks that May couldn't find closure..it IS a very hard situation, especially when the one you love dies. This interview would have been much better if this hadn't of been a split screen as the interviewer appeared bored and put out a bored and rude vibe. We all wanted to see May, not watch an interviewer roll her eyes and look around the room. She should have read up more on her subject, before the interview.
I agree. I would have been hanging on every word may said, not playing with my bangs and staring at the walls and fidgeting in my seat...may is an amazing interview. May has so many stories to tell if only someone would as her..I mean Phill Spector In the studio, coversations with Linda McCartney and yoko Ono and Cynthia Lennon, and members of Elton's band...she was the fly on the wall for music history and has a very unique story.
What a strange voyage this woman has been on. I'm glad she's getting her story on record in more detail as the end of her life comes into view. She's doing all future Beatles scholars a service. She reminds me of Tippi Hedrin, who did film historians a service in telling her Hitchcock story. Hopefully, "the woman must be quiet about the great man who shaped their youth and then did them wrong" paradigm is coming to an end. Time will tell.
Thank you May Pang! So much love to you! That would have been so great if John and May had met with Paul and Linda in New Orleans and done some recording during Venus and Mars sessions. I don't blame Yoko for breaking up the Beatles but I do blame Yoko for keeping Paul away from John.
I so agree about wishing John and May had kept their plans to join Paul and Linda! That would have been a gift to the world! Yoko kept John away from Paul. That's breaking up The Beatles.
I ALWAYS THOUGHT YOKO WAS SOOO SELFISH AND BROKE UP THE BAND I WAS RIGHT. SHE WAS ALL ABOUT HERSELF AND A HOME WRECKER THANKYOU MAY PANG BECAUSE THIS HELPED THE WORLD HEAL MORE.
I used to attend small music meetings in NYC that were hosted by the top people in the music biz. Several had worked with John & Yoko - and had a lot to say. Including how Yoko would telephone them 'after' midnight to discuss business deals and contracts. His wife would say, after he'd hung up with Yoko, "Yoko again?" She was a pistol and known for it.
really good interview. she comes across as quite a genuine personality and you can only really take her take on events as much anyone else's recollections really. but what a messed up situation john and yoko's relationship seems to have been.
May Pang was instrumental in reuniting John Lennon with his son Julian ... that's a good thing.
Lennon #2 isn't Julian's son. That's how this little show works.
@@AaronEddieHYo which 'little show'?
He also reunited them with his bandmates and friends. even there's an unreleased album with paul.
I have always called Yoko Ono by the name of Yoko Ick-o……8-)
Yoko was too selfish for that
Much love to May Pang, such a sane and decent, special loving spirit.
Her strong spirit came across when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Having lived through the 60s and 70s, I can say they were fun, crazy times but have to give this beautiful lady credit for the classy lady she is! Never have I heard her say a bad word about John or Yoko. Special times and memories for her and what she did to heal his relationship with Julian and Cynthia shows what a special lady she is. More class than Yoko could ever dream of!
Well...she did talk about the time John abused her by nearly choking her to death. Also she did mention how Yoko was quite deceptive in hypnotizing John to go back to her....all true things....still a classy lady, nevertheless.
Ya - she talked a ton in her book about how John repeatedly beat her up - repeatedly - and even choked her once in a jealous rage. This gets completely whitewashed and is literally never mentioned now for some reason. That John was a violent bastard even to women.
She had every right to speak her truth, that John was not always easy to deal with, and in recounting things that Yoko did to her we can clearly see and decide for ourselves that Yoko was highly manipulative, not to be trusted, jealous, vindictive, greedy, and would stop at NOTHING to get what she wanted.
@@curtandoscar And to baby Sean....he was often mean to him and played cruel games with him and handled him roughly.
@@juanitarichards1074 😳😲😱😪
Amazing woman. She played a part in helping Julian and John’s relationship.
John reconnected with a lot of people when he was with May Pang.
I think John wanted a woman who was dominant, though. He wanted to be mothered.
For sure. She came over as very loving towards Julian when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
I think May Pang was a better choice for John personally unfortunately she's basically was used as a 'concubine' by Yoko to keep John from his womanizing ways in California while they were briefly separated .
This interviewer is awful why doesn't she shut up let May speak plus every other word is " you no " she sounds just awful whereas May sounds so considered & clear
The moron should have married her, but he was allergic to happiness. He made some of his best music when he was with May Pang.
May is wonderful. I don't understand how the interviewer got this gig.
She's got her head somewhere else and waves her hands around and keeps looking off like there's something more interesting than May.
Let's focus on how great May was and is when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Neither one of them can string a comprehensible sentence together.
She loved him. Why wouldn't she cry? May seems like a lovely, lovely person.
Yes, compared to John and Yoko, she seems like a normal person.
@@AP-sd1flNot at all. Affair with a married man at the wife’s urging? Still trying to pedal that dysfunction as a true love story 50 years later? With the passage of time, meaning she’s no longer a naive 22 yo??? Nah. She’s as much of a clown in this circus as John and Yoko.
I love May Pang. She is so respectful, straight-forward, and graceful about her story with John and Yoko. She never heightens it, or sugar coats, nor does she talk any trash. She is the epitome of class.
Yeah - Her and John were really respectful committing adultery... Real Classy..
@@andrewwian4921 "Adultery" on a skank Ono!? That's a laugh!! What a wild interpretation😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤡
How about Lyndsey Parker? Wow!
@@andrewwian4921 Hey man, what a negative conservative view is that? The only strange thing for me is that Yoko herself decided May should be John' lover. He didn't chose her. He accepted his wife's choice. You condemn only John and May Pang...forgetting Yoko caused that involvement. What a strange mind.
@@andrewwian4921 while Yoko was walled up in the marital home the dakota with her lover Sam Green which didnt work out as Sam refused her serious infatuation with him so she invited John back in and he went back the rest is history!
What the hell is the interviewer always looking around for? Horrible interviewer, stop interrupting and making weird faces, so distracting to have her on the split screen. The documentary is very good, I saw it last night.
She's self absorbed.
I saw the film too and it is superb.
As for this interviewer; she's alright to me. Pretty gal too, but she ought to smile more.
May rocks! 😎👍
She is being held at gunpoint by yoko.
@@aaronm.1998 LMAO!! Now THAT is funny!!
She is disrespectful - with every look away she’s trying to convey: ‘come on, you were just a hooker.’
But she is keen to be seen the whole time even when she takes a sip of coffee she makes sure the cam still sees her weird face and cold expression(s).
May Pang, you were John Lennon's Ying to Yoko's Pang, never can get enough of those lost years. Thanks for sharing your stories with us.~
May was very straightforward and insightful. She came across to me as honest and genuine. And informative.
42:04 wish I could say the same for the interviewer. what an annoying person!
Strange Visions yes she was. Looked like she wasn't even interested
@@strangevisions5162 horrible interviewer. How many times did she say “you know”?
@@charliewelch6859
well come on now guys, her show is about *her* ,
geeze!
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@@mitchpollock7368 She's not even looking at May...her eyes are darting all around...think she's trying to see herself in the screen!??
May was obviously central to a significant chapter of John's life ~ a loving and classy lady who made a postive impact.
She was key, as outlined when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
No she wasn’t. That’s why she’s still fighting to be relevant. 18 months is a BLIP in the grand scheme of life. Everyone knows Yoko. I’m just hearing of this woman.
I respect May. She is brave and honest. My heart goes out to her ❤ xxxx
With all due respect I feel like this interviewer was a bit elementary in her interview skills. Especially asking closed questions, using blunt phases, and talking over her guest. The documentary however is amazing and highly recommend.
In some ways the film re writes history
@@stevevitulli683 no it sets the record straight.
@@stevevitulli683-Yoko has spent decades trying to rewrite the truth and history. As stated in the comment below May sets the record straight.
Y'know, I think you're right, y'know...
You know as well as you know her apparent you know disinterest you know in her you know guest’s you know answers.
I agree with all the comments referencing how distracting the interviewer, Lyndsey Parker is with constantly looking around, rolling her eyes and just not being very attentive. She comes off as disrespectful and unprofessional. May Pang did a wonderful job in giving this interview!
I read your comment one month ago and ignored this video because of it. Today it came up on its own so I decided to listen to a bit. I really enjoyed it. I thought the presenter was very caring, kept asking questions until she got an answer but in a genuinely curious way. I wasn’t watching the screen though so I recommend another listen without the visuals.
@@sweetbabyjesus6516, please don't base your choice to watch or listen to something based on comments, by me or anyone else. However, I stand by my comment as did many others, and I did watch the entire video. However, I do respect your right to express your opinion. Thank you for taking the time to reply. Peace!
I came to the comments just to say this, then found that many others saw how weird it was, she is making faces, looking all around, rolling her eyes, cutting her off, tilting her head making poses, it's all very odd. May deserves better
@@sweetbabyjesus6516 I feel that the interviewer was quite upset emotionally, and that was why she was looking around. She wasn't rude, and May certainly didn't react to her as if she was being rude.
A pro and also when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
I think May is darling. She deserves all the happiness the universe offers. ❤
Love from across the universe. Really grateful I got the chance to interview May for my channel a few days ago
I appreciate May Pang; she strikes me as sincere & fairly balanced about JL and her role w/ him; she's never struck me as trying to get anything except set the record straight, although she appears slightly sad & poignant which is understandable. We're not going to get this sort of personal remembrance from Yoko or others without a certain spin. Pang had a relatively short but intense time w/ John (and Yoko) but seems able to place it into a balanced context with so much time having past. Her stories line up w/ her published 1980s-90s stories. Glad to know she is friendly w/ Julian; she probably offers him a certain parental figure connection to his parents from someone still living that was there w/ them at an impressionable the time of his youth.
Very well said ! Your insight and articulation are on display with your words. Thanks for your words.
Wonderful observations!
I felt total sincerity when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
I enjoyed this interview but I don’t think May has to get the OK from Yoko to tell her point of view. Yoko controlled the narrative from the beginning.
It is enough that Yoko put May in that position. Yoko gets zero sympathy from me. If you think people are hard on Yoko it is due to her own actions.
I agree with you 👍
Absolutely right.
Yoko even controls the Beatles events - Paul and Ringo legally can’t do anything without Yoko’s ok.
I listed to an old Fred Seaman interview of Johns last days....man he really said it all on how yoko was a real villian in going after him to not publish his book. She even had cops in her payroll
I agree with you! Yoko was all about herself and used John. Unfortunately, John needed a mother figure and this witch filled it! Heard from a very trustworthy source who since has passed, said John was disgusted with Yoko’s controlling! In a round about way, Yoko killed John!
Met John and May on
March 4, '74 at Riviera
Hotel in Las Vegas..a great
memory..still have photos
of them, along with Harry Nillson
and Mal Evans..never published
or released..gotta get on the project!
Anyone interested let me know!
May never gets dramatic. I believe every word she said.
I interviewed May a few days ago for my channel and she came over as totally charming
Based on the many interviews I've watched her give on the Lost Weekend-A Love Story documentary I've come to a very unflattering conclusion about John and Yoko. I also think she remains delusional regarding Lennon's feelings for her. If he had truly loved and wanted to be with May as much as she believed he did he would have left Yoko as quickly and as easily as he did Cynthia.
@@riverebec1 I don't know if it would have been so easy. There was a lot of money tied up in limbo at the time of the lost weekend. Also, John was trying not to be deported.
@@marthaworc7873 There was lots of money involved when Lennon was divorcing Cynthia and that didn't keep him from living with Yoko. His deportation concerns had nothing to do with whether or not he was living at the Dakota. He left May because he wanted to. Ultimately, the only person John Lennon ever cared about was himself.
@@riverebec1 John Lennon was waiting on money from the record company at the time.
May Pang was lovely in this interview. The interviewer seemed so disinterested and keep looking off to the right. May deserved someone who knows how to give an interview. Horrible interviewer.
True. Her constant looks off camera were really distracting and I think disrespectful to both May and the audience.
I agree!
@@dongthapu
Yeah! She really sucks!
May did not deserve that disrespectful behavior from that miss priss!
May Pang is very interesting. I didn't care for the interviewer, at all! Fidgeting, playing with her hair. Her body language is screaming 'I'm bored'...or maybe medicated.
Agreed… horrible interviewer
I was in high school during this period. I always felt that this ‘lost weekend’ should never have ended. John was so creative & doing great, I was very sad when he went back to YO. 🕉️
Lost weekend was 18 months but May kept in touch with John for much longer as confirmed when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
I think John went to May because Yoko told him to and he went back to Yoko because she told him to come back. He did whatever Yoko said. May seems like nice lady
Lots of love to May Pang. A remarkable lady who John loved very much x
One of the finest, most "real" interviews I have seen. Had May met John in London, after his divorce, before Yoko did, I could envision her as John's Linda, a postive, well liked part of the Beatle family. It seems John would have been much better off, and without Yoko's negative, bizarre influence the Beatle's could perhaps have endured (as the Stones have). What might have come of it, had May and Linda gotten together, as planned in New Orleans, and encouraged John and Paul to write together. I view Yoko as a calculating, manipulative groupie who saw John as her meal ticket, and who viciously, ruthlessly lashed out at anyone she viewed as a threat to her ride on the gravy train. Her "art" was trash, in my view, and her "singing" and "music" junk. Look how she treated very likable and positive Julian before and after John"s death. May seems to have mostly encouraged Lennon's good qualities, while, sadly, Yoko preyed on his weaknesses and flaws to, and her advantage, and his detriment. Thanks for one of the best Beatle's/Music interviews ever. I had no idea May Pang is a person of such depth, or that you are so impressive an interviewer.
The Beatles was over because they were sick and tired of being the Beatles, it had ran it's course, Yoko didn't break them up, she was a witch, but the guys were tired of putting up with each other, they had 10 years to get back together, and never did for reasons
On one hand hard to argue with the logic. But then drugs came along…. Lots of bad decisions made by many people around that scene.
I don't agree with the view that Yoko ended the Beatles. John & George didn't want to be Beatles at the end of the 1960s. They should have taken a long break then got back together after they'd created their various personal projects.
Well put.
Well said, her art was trash, and as a human she was about the same as her art. She didn't allow Cynthia to go to john's funeral to pay her respects. The mother of John's first born. Didn't get to pay her respects. So sad.
Poor May...she was a sweet lady who did try to mend the damage Yoko caused messing with John and his family and friends.
Oh May! You are such a strong amazing woman. The universe put you where you were needed, you gave love and you are loved! Your heart is true, honest,loyal and fierce! Oh to have a friend like you!!! What a blessing you are! ❤️🙏🏻
Right on! Her strength and love were clear when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
May has always been one of my favorite people in The Beatles saga. She is a very good person, truly loved John, and did what she could to help him find his way back to being a proper father to Julian, a proper ex-husband on good terms with Cynthia, and getting back to writing with Paul. And she asked for nothing in return. Theirs was a true love.
A stark contrast to who John ended up with, and who drained him of everything he had.
"True love" perhaps but May also recounted in her book how John beat the crap out of her over and over - multiple times, all through their time together, even choking her at one point. This repeatedly gets whitewashed - it is almost never brought up in interviews with May when discussing the "lost weekend".
@@curtandoscar What can I say? Maybe it wasn't as bad as it sounds. Maybe she overlooked it. Maybe she liked it. But the fact is, whatever he did or didn't do to her, she still loved him right to the end. And so did Cynthia. Yes, life goes on, and we make the best of it when someone departs from our lives, but we still love who we love.
And this is just my personal feeling, but I think we should stop calling it a "Lost Weekend". Yoko trivialized it as that. John & May were together a year and a half, he'd stopped taking Yoko's calls, he gave Yoko crap seats to his MSG concert while May was backstage with him, and John &May were buying a house together.
If anything, the "Lost Weekend" was Yoko's highly manipulative "stop smoking" session that was supposed to last a few hours, but through hypnosis and drugs, ENDED UP LASTING ALL WEEKEND. John remembered nothing afterwards, just that he kept drinking tea and throwing up. Sounds like Yoko got him back on heroin again. THAT was the REAL LOST WEEKEND!
Like the guy that wakes up in Las Vegas to find out he's gotten married the night before, and a really bad tattoo!
And indeed, later John must have realized Yoko had carefully timed that weekend to her fertility cycle (likely the reason she kept adjusting the date) and had gotten herself pregnant that weekend as extra insurance to reel him back. Just in case hypnotizing John, re-hooking him to drugs, and the immigration argument, didn't work to get him back to the Dakota where she could finally get her hand in his pocket (she was going for firing Seiden and grabbing John's Power of Attorney) and he insisted on going ahead with May, Yoko would sue him for as much as she could get for paternity of Sean. She would go for as much as she could get, unlike Cynthia. Plus, that would give her an excuse to bask in Johns fame big time. That's why she was always so wary about Cynthia and Julian, sensing the strong position they were actually in. That's why Yoko quickly manipulated her way into being gatekeeper against them.
For Yoko it was all about finances and fame. She was determined to grab both from John to the max, no matter what HE actually wanted to do. And she could run circles around him.
So yeah, comparatively, what John&Cynthia or John&May had was real love.
@@charwest9449 Wow. To suggest that "maybe" May "liked" the beatings is 1) mind blowing, and 2) means you didn't read her book Loving John. The beatings and choking were entirely non consensual, if you or anyone somehow thinks this was some sort of S&M thing. John's repeated violence towards her was inexcusable and is consistently left out of the narrative ie whitewashed even though it sure as hell was a notable fact about John. That was the point of my comment. WHY is something like this - a shameful and extraordinary fact about one of the most famous men in history - consistently whitewashed?
@@curtandoscar Yes, he was flawed. But my point is they had a real relationship. She didn't have to manipulate him to be with her, as Yoko did, because he loved her. And suhe truly cared about him as a real person, not just a "star" or a meal ticket, and was instrumental in guiding him to put his life back together. A life that was smashed by Yoko.
@@curtandoscar I'm speaking about their relationship, not the media reaction to it. But May was candid about everything. She wasn't trying to craft a certain image to boost her own.
Closure is the most cliche word ever. When you have lost a great love, there is no "closure." May is so wise...If you have regrets, how can you learn? So wise.
She was so wise when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
She oozes class, decency and, above all, honesty. This is the REAL truth.
Absolutely - all these qualities were displayed when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
to bad her reality is warped. then the truth she tells you isn't real, it is made up in her head
I believe everything May says. She's a good person. It's sad that John was so broken and easy to manipulate.
God bless May Pang.❤️ The situation with John Lennon is very complicated and varied as she says….
If John never died they would rekindle there relationship, I wish that happened may is the best ❤
You dont know this.
May says that she and John were intimate up until the time he died.
Maybe he was about to leave the narcissist
In a parallel universe. That was the impression when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Could the hostess act any less bored & start paying more attention to May?
Enjoyed when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
May Pang is a beautiful, kind soul. I sent her a message, and I wasn't expecting her to reply, but she did.
Excellent interview, by the way.
A true lady, that much was clear when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
May is so cool🫶😊
The documentary is great❣️
I loved Mays documentary
Fascinating. I never knew about May’s story, and her relationship with John Lennon. It goes so deep. May was present at some iconic moments in music history. I wish her peace and happiness.
I so wish he'd stayed with this lovely woman. In an alternative universe he most likely would've still been with us today and I think she would've brought out the very best in him... sliding doors!
My heart goes out to May. She is a genuine, beautiful person and you can see how her relationship with John affected her life, and how it still affects her. I agree it’s wonderful how she helped John heal some of his most important relationships; most importantly with Julian and Cynthia. ❤❤
May, you're amazing!
It's unfinished business and your heart was faithful...and yet got broken. Shame on Yoko for what she did...quite simply put. You were so young and you had the entire world at your feet..
Exciting times!!! Wish the ending would have been better. Thank you for sharing your beautiful heart ❤
Wow, just came upon this interview! I read May's book years ago and was shocked at all the info then, but I learned even more now. Glad she is good and was able to move forward. Thank you so much!!
Glad May shared her real story about John.
May crying breaks me in two.
I cried when I watched the movie, but not when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
She is very intelligent and was there for John and Julian. Glad she was in his life
Her intellect was evident when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Glad she made the doc and is talking. ☮️💟
An amazing lady.Telling her story.Can't ask for more.
Her resolve and strength came over when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
To this interviewer: Yoko has had many opportunities to tell her narrative! The public has been under her PR since John was murdered. Time for more bits of truth to come to the surface.
May seemed completely genuine when I interviewed her for my channel a few days ago
May is so beautiful ❤
Enjoyed when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Way to go May. So glad you tell this story. I just watched an old Geraldo Rivera interview you did, he was a bit condescending and a bit derogatory when he interviewed you. Hope your life is great.
Enjoyed when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
I've never seen this interviewer before, but she is absolutely terrific! She asked all the questions that I was hoping she'd ask from a place of knowledge. No perfunctory questions! Outstanding!!
May was and still is such a beautiful lady with a beautiful amazing soul! JL found a real Gem with her.
Indeed. Even virtually her soul came across when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
i like the way mae talks and explains things.
Very lucid when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
May Pang seems more suited for John.She is real and kind and loves Julian.Such a shame how evil women like Yoko can destroy lives.This would have been a different ending for John if May Pang was in the life with John.Great lady.
Great lady as she appeared when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Oh May, you did the best you could! How you couldn't find the courage to intervene, I will never understand. You didn't have the self-awareness created-self-confidence, to stand up, and..... I know whereof I speak. It will haunt you forever???? NO!!!!!!!! you are wrong. You live good CLEAN LOVE. IT will find YOU! You paid the price. This is meant to soothe you, May. ❤❤❤❤❤❤ so nice to have made your acquaintance🎉 thank you very much😊
The reporter is really a bad one. Trying to ofuscate Pang
Wonderful interview! And let's be clear that May is in no way a groupie, as she did not pursue Lennon. Yoko, however... anyway some years ago I contacted May and we became email pals for a while. The kindest, most clever person, she's great! Consider what May Pang brought by creating a new life for John, mending fences in Beatle Mania and giving Julian his father back.
spot on!!!!
Her love for John shone through when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
mae pang was also a victim of old yoko if you think about it. cynthia was also.
Yup. And Paul also. Julian also. And the Greens. Fred Seaman too. And that reporter she used to present her Jackie O image after John's death. Marnie Hair too. Toshi and Tony too. Really, the list goes on and on.
@@charwest9449 true.
People were the victim of;”the old Yoko?’What does this mean?And,if he liked May Pang better,but,not Yoko Ono,then why did he go back to Yoko Ono?What a confusing relationship this was!
She still have a beautiful smile :)❤
Enjoyed when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
i loved this interviwe & happy to know that May has made this movie to get the TRUE story out !!!
Great movie. I was lucky enough to interview May for my channel a few days ago
Great interview!! May is amazing.....and so is Lyndsey Parker! 🙏✨💖
May Pang is ADORABLE. Whoever wins her over, will have won the lottery.
i gotta agree with some comments below. The interviewer looks bored or put out to having to do this interview. At least get someone who has an interest in the person being interviewed.
IKR
Yes, I thought the interviewer behaved as though no one could see her. I don't know what she was looking at to her left, a clock, a screen? But it made her appear disinterested and distracted and seemed rude. At first I though she was rolling her eyes, but then I began to think she was looking at a clock or something.
That’s nonsense. What do you expect her to do? Whoop and holler?
@@claymor8241 just be interested in the interview she is doing. No whooping necessary
@@claymor8241 no, just conduct the interview in a polite, attentive manner. She kept looking away and making odd faces. It was as if she didn't know she was also being filmed and she was bored or didn't like the woman she was interviewing.
I really like this lady. She was down to earth and real. Love, she was helping John to get reconnected with Julian
So down to earth when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
May is an AMAZING lady. Her time with John brought normalcy, peace and logic to his life. I believe she knew the real John, even the John we know. If you watch interviews during that time, he's happy, funny and is a reminder of our wonderful "Beatle John"- not the bitter, man handled guy he tended to be before and after. She is a real, beautiful person and John saw that and loved her for it.
Agree - she seemed so grounded when interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
john almost died of alcohol poisoning while he was with may. all you have to do is listen to his interviews here on youtube. he almost died. but that is just what he says himself in tape recorded interviews here on youtube which you could listen to anytime for yourself
I feel sad the interviewer missed out on opportunities to ask about the John Lennon as May knew him. What were his insecurities she hinted about? What was a typical day in their lives? What did she do during the day when he worked or partied? Did they talk about what kind of future he wanted for himself? Where he wanted to live, what he liked to do? What were his thoughts about his aunt? What they typically ate at home? etc etc. Just so much to hear from her about what John was like but none of it was touched.
We appreciate you Ms Pang. God bless you for being such a wonderful soul. Regardless if all this was among the rich and famous... these things happen outside of marriage sometimes, and the memories of the persons involved remain in our hearts for whatever reason it needed to happen. God bless.
Soul is very apt. Her spirit shone through when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Much respect to May. Wish John had stayed with her.
Enjoyed when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
this is where i am starting to see who John post Beatles as he really was as a person in relationship with someone normal; it ties in with my perceptions of his relationship early on with Cynthia, where he was 'grounded' in normalcy, albeit he was struggling constantly with so many mega forces from his early childhood through to the end; thank goodness for May and Cynthia who provide these wonderful insights into who this Beatle was that was behind the Beatles we saw and heard;
What was it that drew Lennon back to Yoko Ono was it love or that mother figure malarky. Had Lennon stayed with lovely May Pang his story would have been so different and it could well still be with us.
Oh my god. That interviewer, she practically asked May to cry for the camera. Pink walls and a tilted head do not make up for limited vocabulary and interview skills.
54:38 she really can't keep her mouth shut...so annoying. how about letting her finish her sentence/thought...and THEN ask her about the bloody UFO!?!?!?
Wow!! To the interviewer, stop rolling your eyes, starting off to the side and nodding your head side to side...very distracting.
Nice interview, with regards to Pete Ham and Badfinger which May mentions around the 46 minute mark, "May Blues" was written by Pete Ham about May Pang. The song "Day After Day" written by Pete Ham was written about his girlfriend Beverly Ellis.
Thanks for that information!
May explained how she had dinner with Pete 2 days before he died when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
So excited to see the film tonight!
Enjoyed when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
I have all the time in the world for May. She seems like someone you could really talk to about anything, it's clear why John loved her. I'm very glad that John had this happy period with her in his short life, and I wish they could have had the chance to see the relationship through. But I guess what Ono started Ono also wanted to finish. She doesn't care about anyone else's feelings.
She came over as a superb source when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
john didn't love her for very long. he left her to go back to his wife who is who he loved all along, so what are you talking about,
@@heyday179yoko set up the whole relationship and was adamant that it was going to be a thing. But once she saw John getting along great without her, she snatched him right back. I don't think she expected him to be able to do without her and be so happy and serious with someone else who was just meant to be a fling during their trial separation. It got her attention really quick.
Miss Pang is such a graceful lady
Enjoyed when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Wow! Awesome interview/ great questions. God bless May.
Very informative interview, even though it comes off more like an interrogation. I had the opportunity to have a brief chat with May in New York only last week, at a meet and greet, and for May Pang fans out there Im happy to confirm that in person she is much prettier, possessing a natural charm and sparkle than the brutal aesthetics of the internet allow! Looking forward to checking out the film. 👍
Lyndsey comes off not very good here, she acts like she's in a bad mood or something, she's snippy and short with May, like she would rather be somewhere else
I had a much warmer chat when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Who is this person interviewing? She doesn’t seem the type that one would warm up to that’s for sure. She doesn’t seem to pay attention most of the time even tho she inserts opinions & assumptions. Her eyes are all over the place. In fact the more the interview goes on the more annoying she becomes. eek!
When I interviewed May she was so warm and co-operative.. the perfect guest
The myth of John rekindling the relationship with Yoko at Madison Square Gardens was just Yoko PR. In May's book she details how John had stopped taking Yoko's calls, and given her crappy seats to his concert, despite her hounding him for better seats for weeks. May was Johns lady and Yoko was just FIRMLY the ex.
When you examine how narcissists conduct relationships with others, it's very clear that John was trapped in an emotionally abusive and manipulative relationship with a narcissist. All the classic signs are there, right down to how she did her best to dominate his life and cut everybody else out of it. Some Yoko defenders attack me for saying this and scream, "John was a grown man who loved her!! He wanted to be with her!!!" And I'm not saying he didn't. Truth be told, John put up this big front of being confident and macho and so determined to be free, but he was a child who'd been abandoned by his father then his mother, and was raised by very strong, controlling woman. It's the only thing he knew. He couldn't function with Cyn because she was allowing him to be the boss and be in control, and secretly, he feared having the control in a relationship. He was too insecure to take total control in any relationship. That's why Yoko appealed to him. She love-bombed him initially with constant attention, which he also craved because of his childhood abandonment from his parents....and then, like Aunt Mimi, she took over to become the boss and he allowed it because that's what he knew and was most comfortable with. Sadly, it's very hard for a person to escape a relationship with a narcissist for that very reason. Fear of the unknown and/or the unfamiliar.
@@Chinachik Also its worth adding Johns sister Julia Baird said in a recent interview that Johns mum Julia was small and diminutive with slightly slanted eyes like Yoko who John called mother too!So it was a psychiatrists dream!I often wonder why yoko did an interview where she mentioned the route her and John took from the dakota to the recording studio especially after being over 5 years out of the music business and even the head of security wanted more staff which she refused! Very strange!
@@marksimons4108 Very strange indeed. I remember there was talk of possible conspiracies immediately after John’s murder, including a recording of a conversation he’d had with Jack Douglas that night, something that scared Jack so much he erased the tapes after finding out about the shooting at The Dakota. That whole night and some of the events surrounding it were very disturbing to me. It was horrible and not something I will ever forget.
@@Chinachikappearing to be a set up it sounds like
@@gaylealleluia8392 Anything is possible, and I’m not one to inject conspiracy theories into everything, but there are elements that can’t be denied.
What an interesting, kind person. I hope she finds a wonderful partner.
The kindest! Very gracious when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
I wasn't expecting May to have such a strong "New Yawk" accent.
Queens New Yawk, baby.
@@lenalennon8746 She’s from Manhattan. She and her family lived in that pocket above 96th street that is not quite East Harlem, then Spanish Harlem.
God bless you for your kindness to Julian.
This was clear when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Thanks May!! Good to see you in fine shape!!
Enjoyed when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Lovely conversation, more than an interview. Great
Enjoyed interviewing May for my channel a few days ago
One can fact check ; the photo on the cover of Julian's album Jude, is one of him taken by May when he was a boy. ❤
May Pang, a great and lovely woman, and a lot of empathy too❤👍
A truly lovely spirit when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Yoko didn’t want John at the time, just control over him and his money
Just my opinion but... I wish John stayed with May instead of being brainwashed by Yoko. He would have been a lot better off in the long run.
Lennon enjoyed being manipulated by Yoko. I think he was weak in that sense and weak people attract manipulators.
@@JCX-9i guess so. I tbink they have a masochist-sadistic abnormal relationship
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Good interview with May. I read her book years ago and and always rooted for her. My heart breaks that May couldn't find closure..it IS a very hard situation, especially when the one you love dies.
This interview would have been much better if this hadn't of been a split screen as the interviewer appeared bored and put out a bored and rude vibe. We all wanted to see May, not watch an interviewer roll her eyes and look around the room. She should have read up more on her subject, before the interview.
I agree. I would have been hanging on every word may said, not playing with my bangs and staring at the walls and fidgeting in my seat...may is an amazing interview. May has so many stories to tell if only someone would as her..I mean Phill Spector In the studio, coversations with Linda McCartney and yoko Ono and Cynthia Lennon, and members of Elton's band...she was the fly on the wall for music history and has a very unique story.
The movie is even better than the book. I got a preview before I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Yes, watch other interviews with May… much better!
This interviewer is so rude , her head is looking everywhere but at May Pang, fidgeting with her fringe ,May is lovely .
Great interview!
excellent interview!
Is the interviewer looking off to the side at a monitor? She probably, thinks it's a selfie.
Now and Then was written about May Pang
What a strange voyage this woman has been on. I'm glad she's getting her story on record in more detail as the end of her life comes into view. She's doing all future Beatles scholars a service. She reminds me of Tippi Hedrin, who did film historians a service in telling her Hitchcock story. Hopefully, "the woman must be quiet about the great man who shaped their youth and then did them wrong" paradigm is coming to an end. Time will tell.
Agreed. Her account is crucially important and so well expressed when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Thank you May Pang! So much love to you! That would have been so great if John and May had met with Paul and Linda in New Orleans and done some recording during Venus and Mars sessions. I don't blame Yoko for breaking up the Beatles but I do blame Yoko for keeping Paul away from John.
I so agree about wishing John and May had kept their plans to join Paul and Linda! That would have been a gift to the world!
Yoko kept John away from Paul. That's breaking up The Beatles.
Love her too. More so after I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
Cant wait to see it hope it comes to the UK
Who is the double Fennon with the broken nose?Is the spanian guy with his now fake name"chema rios"?
I'm confident that you will enjoy it. I saw it the other night. It's 'fooking' excellent!!!
13 October. Enjoyed when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago
I ALWAYS THOUGHT YOKO WAS SOOO SELFISH AND BROKE UP THE BAND I WAS RIGHT. SHE WAS ALL ABOUT HERSELF AND A HOME WRECKER THANKYOU MAY PANG BECAUSE THIS HELPED THE WORLD HEAL MORE.
Bless you May Pang ❤
I used to attend small music meetings in NYC that were hosted by the top people in the music biz. Several had worked with John & Yoko - and had a lot to say. Including how Yoko would telephone them 'after' midnight to discuss business deals and contracts. His wife would say, after he'd hung up with Yoko, "Yoko again?" She was a pistol and known for it.
To me, Yoko always came off as a quirky sweet little innocent Japanese lady, but that is farthest from the truth.
really good interview. she comes across as quite a genuine personality and you can only really take her take on events as much anyone else's recollections really. but what a messed up situation john and yoko's relationship seems to have been.
Had a remarkable recollection when I interviewed May for my channel a few days ago