John Lennon's ex. May Pang reveals why the former Beatle went back to Yoko + talking to his ghost.

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May Pang's 18-month romance with John Lennon is the subject of a new documentary called The Lost Weekend. In this revealing interview, May opens up about the couples great love, how she was instrumental in bringing John and Julian back together, her time with Ringo, Paul and George, how she received a call asking if Paul was dead but May recalls the very awkward encounter she had with his widow Yoko Ono in an Iceland hotel.
** The documentary is out on Friday October 13th.
Timecodes
00:00 Start
00:30 The Lost Weekend documentary
03:59 Landing a job at Apple Music
04:44 The Rolling Stones
05:07 Getting the call asking is Paul McCartney ‘dead’
05:59 Becoming John and Yoko’s personal assistant
08:00 First thoughts on Yoko
10:41 Bringing Julian and John together
12:00 Yoko sets up John and May
14:00 John and May fall in love
15:00 LA and Ringo, Paul and George
18:00 May’s take on the real John Lennon
19:00 John takes a bus ride in NY
20:55 May’s take on why John went back to Yoko
21:50 John’s ghost
23:30 John’s death
2359 May runs into Yoko in Iceland
30:41 Continuing John’s peace work

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  • @allthingsmustpass70
    @allthingsmustpass70Ай бұрын

    I wish John had stayed with May Pang. She is a kind soul. She got John to see Julian and patch things up with Cynthia.

  • @zapdunga12
    @zapdunga126 ай бұрын

    I met her once at a Beatles convention. She was standing in the audience and no one recognized her except me. I went over and spoke to her and she was wonderful and gave me a kiss. ❤

  • @happystarhappystar1477

    @happystarhappystar1477

    5 ай бұрын

    May was as pretty as a picture, and is still full of life and glamour and charm.

  • @hispoiema

    @hispoiema

    5 ай бұрын

    I worked at a Beatles Convention at the LA Bonaventure around 81 or 82. Laurence Juber was there. I didn't know of her then.

  • @revrotunda3206

    @revrotunda3206

    5 ай бұрын

    @@hispoiema Juber was a frequent guest at Chicago Beatlefests but I’ve never seen May Pang there unless I missed her. Used to attend every year staying the entire weekend in my younger days but the expense became too much for me for the entire 3 day weekend so I’d either miss Beatlefests altogether or just stop in for one of the days.

  • @user-kq1hg3eo6l

    @user-kq1hg3eo6l

    5 ай бұрын

    So Beautiful! How can John not fall in love with her❓❓

  • @mickeyray3793

    @mickeyray3793

    5 ай бұрын

    In another Universe, John is still with May Pang, didn't meet Yoko, didnt get murdered, and has written a whole bunch of songs, which we will now never know.😢

  • @sylvaind9086
    @sylvaind90863 ай бұрын

    So sad that John didn't finish his life with May. She seems so likable. He might still be with us.🙁

  • @dee1901
    @dee1901Ай бұрын

    No wonder why John loves May .. She is full of vibrant energy ❤. They could have been such a wonderful couple with great dynamics.

  • @muddywaters538
    @muddywaters5386 ай бұрын

    She was able to get John connected with his ex-family because for that brief period Yoko was out of the picture.

  • @cheribee968
    @cheribee96827 күн бұрын

    I’ve always admired Mae She always had a practical and honest way about her. She is someone you would want as a friend She carries a lot of joy in her energy

  • @davidemmet7343
    @davidemmet73436 ай бұрын

    John should have stuck with May Pang, she sounds like she was a healthy, normal influence on him.

  • @patriciagonzales2148

    @patriciagonzales2148

    6 ай бұрын

    Then Sean wouldn’t have been born.

  • @davidemmet7343

    @davidemmet7343

    6 ай бұрын

    @@patriciagonzales2148Mourning the existence of someone who didn't exist in an alternate universe seems like a strange way to view the world. I have nothing against Sean Lennon, but if John stayed with Pang then he might have had other children with her and then you would then be asking about them. The same argument could actually be made about the use of birth control and all of the people who were never born, A better argument would be that John was an adult and for better or worse he chose to go back to Yoko.

  • @patriciagonzales2148

    @patriciagonzales2148

    6 ай бұрын

    @@davidemmet7343 WOW 😂🤣😂 really. How long have you been thinking about this. I completely agree that ppl need to get over it. John loved Yoko

  • @davidemmet7343

    @davidemmet7343

    6 ай бұрын

    @@patriciagonzales2148 I was merely responding to your odd comment.

  • @patriciagonzales2148

    @patriciagonzales2148

    6 ай бұрын

    @@davidemmet7343 it’s not odd, it’s a fact . In response to your comment.

  • @susanrike7476
    @susanrike74765 ай бұрын

    What a genuine person May Pang is. Haven't seen the doc yet. Never liked Yoko. Always felt she was very controlling and self-serving. Still is. In today's world, a narcissist. Divide and conquer. That said, I truly believe that if John had lived, he would have reunited with May. They shared something very real. I'm happy that she finally has been able to be seen and heard. She's sincere, lovely, and honest.

  • @tvsmed

    @tvsmed

    5 ай бұрын

    These controlling women try to isolate their partner from friends & family once they've got you on the hook. They are the lovely person A in the beginning but morf into the calculating controlling person B later and you wonder where the person you married are.

  • @SuziQ.

    @SuziQ.

    5 ай бұрын

    @@tvsmed , Controlling people exist in both sexes, and they all separate the person they’re controlling from others who could be able to help. Yoko is a narcissistic monster. Her songs are horrible. I think she used John to further her music career (which is a pile of garbage, not music). Pimping him out to another woman and coercing them both into a relationship is another example of her controlling behavior.

  • @yourthaiguy

    @yourthaiguy

    3 ай бұрын

    Watch it… arguably the best documentary on what John was really like. Contains a TREASURE TROVE of photos and stories we never knew existed and shows John in a totally different light ..good and bad! It’s an amazing amazing film!

  • @michaelk5507
    @michaelk55076 ай бұрын

    She seems like a really lovely and positive woman, full of heart and energy. She is a 'Yes!' kind of person moving forward into life.

  • @richbailey8174

    @richbailey8174

    6 ай бұрын

    Uh....she said yes when Yoko pimped her....and she is moving forward?....she keeps talking about it and milking it.

  • @annanikia7949
    @annanikia79496 ай бұрын

    May seems like quite a compassionate, genuine person! It appears that she created some critically positive family moments for John as well as tempering his personality!

  • @dancinditedforyears6736
    @dancinditedforyears6736Ай бұрын

    I love her for trying to get Julian more involved with dad or vice versa. I also think she was more positive and compassionate. Plus love her pictures.

  • @pixie3760
    @pixie3760Ай бұрын

    I remember 50 years ago we all walked into jobs we had no idea about...it was very much a case of * fake it until you make it * ...fun days 😂😂😂

  • @MassimoZucchettiprof
    @MassimoZucchettiprof2 ай бұрын

    We love you, May. A wonderful human being, then and now. And a stunning young beauty, back then. ❤

  • @feliciafloresca4108
    @feliciafloresca41082 ай бұрын

    Yoko said that hooking May and John was only going to be two weeks. It was then that she realized it was longer and John fell in love with May.

  • @okguy1282
    @okguy12826 ай бұрын

    May Pang has not changed. Still beautiful, still centered, still sincere and classy.. Cheers!

  • @trevorsmith7753

    @trevorsmith7753

    6 ай бұрын

    Has aged, as Chinese woman do, but was better-looking than Yoko in the 1970s, and childless.

  • @okguy1282

    @okguy1282

    6 ай бұрын

    @@trevorsmith7753 Age is irrelevant. 😀

  • @richbailey8174

    @richbailey8174

    6 ай бұрын

    And still milking her affair with John Lennon....what does that say?

  • @okguy1282

    @okguy1282

    6 ай бұрын

    @@richbailey8174 It was not an affair. See if you read the story you would know this.

  • @richbailey8174

    @richbailey8174

    6 ай бұрын

    Oh maybe "affair" was being kind.....more like she was pimped by Yoko!@@okguy1282

  • @marypoppins123
    @marypoppins1235 ай бұрын

    I get the impression that Yoko recreated her story and May and others were swept under the carpet. May is awesome.

  • @standupphilosopher7059
    @standupphilosopher70595 ай бұрын

    May was the right choice not Yoko. Down to earth and intelligent. May understand how important the relationship with Julian was. A kind compassionate person who understands whats important.

  • @humanbeing5300

    @humanbeing5300

    5 ай бұрын

    Yeah, you would know better than John

  • @theresaakins2317

    @theresaakins2317

    5 ай бұрын

    It always seems like the fussy people get what they want. Nice people finish last sometimes

  • @cintiamie6476

    @cintiamie6476

    10 күн бұрын

    Quem manda no coração!! Não adianta falar que John podia ter ficado com ela !! Coração fala mais alto!!!

  • @voxxclamantis9668
    @voxxclamantis96682 ай бұрын

    Thanks, I believe May's every word, not so much Yoko's!

  • @MartyBenson-te2ie
    @MartyBenson-te2ieАй бұрын

    Compelling and captivating interview. May Pang is pure class. Had no idea of so much of this extraordinary story. Always thought it was the stuff of tabloids and wasn't necessarily true. Wow and wow.

  • @Jakesoriginals
    @Jakesoriginals5 ай бұрын

    She is super down to earth, from my first impression of her she seems like she would be a great partner for John or anyone to be with. I hope she is happy with a good family

  • @loonylinda
    @loonylinda3 ай бұрын

    love this interviewer, always so kind and respectful. and May Pang is a beautiful soul.

  • @tinahale9252
    @tinahale92522 ай бұрын

    I didn't even know he was involved with anyone. She is a better soul. Tried to put his life back in place. I admire that

  • @SteveSurrey-nw6kp
    @SteveSurrey-nw6kp7 ай бұрын

    A most revealing and gracious interview. May Pang is such a force of nature, great energy. No wonder John Lennon fell very much in love.

  • @linanicolia1363

    @linanicolia1363

    6 ай бұрын

    brilliant interview !

  • @r.m.simone396

    @r.m.simone396

    5 ай бұрын

    Beautiful soul Beautiful energy and THIS was the right match for John She's a special Treasure

  • @Beckola11

    @Beckola11

    5 ай бұрын

    Wow. That's a helluva brazen assumption.@@r.m.simone396

  • @lishamarlar4597

    @lishamarlar4597

    3 ай бұрын

    John Lennon was in love with sex. Not women

  • @yourthaiguy
    @yourthaiguy3 ай бұрын

    It was such an incredible documentary that is sure to bring every Lennon fan to tears… shows May and John living outside his Beatle bubble for probably the first time in years in a way that Yoko STILL has NEVER showed or shared and it can’t help but warm your heart.

  • @blu48
    @blu482 ай бұрын

    Nice to see May Pang doing well. She was such a young woman during her relationship with John. What a fascinating journey she has had. Love her NYC accent too.

  • @kristinmeyer489
    @kristinmeyer4896 ай бұрын

    She was so much better for him than Yoko. It's too bad there wasn't the understanding of narcissistic abuse back then. He wouldn't have gone back. He would have stayed where the love was.

  • @bobtaylor170

    @bobtaylor170

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes, don't we all get the impression that she sapped the life and spirit out of him? My gosh, just look at the photos of him with May Pang. Normal weight, looking optimistic, even ebullient. The only things wrong with The Lost Weekend were his drinking, which was always terrible for him because he couldn't handle it, and what seems to have been his constant nervousness about Yoko Ono. Imagine, indeed, what might have been if he'd divorced Ono and gotten John Eastman or, if he couldn't do a little crawling, someone else credible to manage his finances. Ono is a narcissist and a practicing witch. I feel sorry for Lennon, that he was trapped in a role he didn't like but didn't have any sense of how to get out of.

  • @lynnhubbard844

    @lynnhubbard844

    6 ай бұрын

    @@bobtaylor170 drugs

  • @linanicolia1363

    @linanicolia1363

    6 ай бұрын

    It shows how manipulative Yoko was as she likely used John as a platform for her " art"....

  • @skylarsartnphotography3450

    @skylarsartnphotography3450

    5 ай бұрын

    @@lynnhubbard844 Well it was the 60's and drugs was always part of the 60s

  • @kristinmeyer489

    @kristinmeyer489

    5 ай бұрын

    @@lynnhubbard844 Not all drugs are the same. Prior to Ono, Lennnon drank and smoked weed. She got him addicted to heroin. She also leveraged his addiction to cigarettes. She also sent him on a trip to the middle of the ocean during hurricane season. He was discombobulated. Ono was his worst addiction, and she deliberately did that, ruining his family to get her prize.

  • @v1-vr-rotatev2-vy_vx31
    @v1-vr-rotatev2-vy_vx312 ай бұрын

    John Lennon's fans still have not gotten over his passing

  • @Ewusia2013
    @Ewusia2013Ай бұрын

    Your interview with May is the best one I have seen in a long time. Thank you so much for your charming eloquence, insight, research and empathy ❤

  • @seerstone8982
    @seerstone89825 ай бұрын

    Someone spoke about John getting a phone call from Yoko. They said his facial expression changed, like he had been hypnotized. Now I understand, she told him in order to get his green card, he would have to return to his wife.

  • @jerusalem330

    @jerusalem330

    2 ай бұрын

    Mk Ultra John was the slave Yoko the handler

  • @dmc4426

    @dmc4426

    Ай бұрын

    Exactly. Yoko was sponsoring John as her spouse to get him a Green Card. Yoko was a US citizen. Nixon and others in the GOP wanted him deported back to UK, because he faced drug charges there. If he wasn't famous he would have been deported right away. Even if he married a US citizen he would have deported due to his drug charges in the UK. People forget he fled the UK to avoid going to trial and then probably jail. He and Yoko married before he entered the US, so he could claim to be the spouse of an American to gain entry. If he didn't have great immigration lawyers he would have been deported. I had a relative who worked in US Customs at the time explain it to me that he really shouldn't have been let into the US. John did not get his Green Card till after he went back to Yoko, in fact not till after Sean was born. In New York adoptions are closed, no way to find out info. What if John and Yoko wanted to have a kid, which would help him get a Green Card, but couldn't? Yoko had a few miscarriages and was in her 40s. I believe Mays book said John went back to Yoko on April 15 in 1975. But in early October of the same year Yoko gave birth to Sean? If Yoko got pregnant right away when she and John got back together, she'd have been less than 6 months along when Sean was born. Sean weighted 9 pounds at both and obviously wasn't a premie. So if Yoko and John weren't together when Sean was convinced, then maybe May was his mother and Yoko adopted him. It would give John and Yoko the baby they needed for John to get a Green card. You see a baby born out of wedlock wouldn't help get a Green Card. But a baby born to a couple where 1 spouse was already sponsoring the other would help. John and Yoko both have large noses, Sean doesn't. Look at pics of John and Yoko has kids, still has large noses. Sean's nose is small has a kid. I think he might be May and Johns kid, adopted by Yoko. John calls Yoko and tells her May's pregnant. Yoko threatens to stop by sponsoring John and have him sent back to UK to face trial and jail. John kept in contact with May. John did the child care of caring for Sean, maybe because he was John's and not Yoko's. When John vacationed in the US Virgin Island Yoko didn't go with. They seemed to enjoy time apart from each other. When John finally got his Green Card, it was after Sean was born. He stayed with Cynthia while Julian was a baby and until he was school age. He may have loved Yoko, he might have not wanted to loose money in a divorce. Yoko dad was a rich international banker. She went to grade school with the emperor of Japan's son, who later became emperor himself. Their families were friends also. As Yoko was connected to the emperor of Japan, John could always find safety from deportation back to the UK with her, even if it meant moving to Japan. Since Yoko's family was rich, she wouldn't be as easy to divorce as Cynthia was. John stood to lose half his assets if he divorced Yoko. John's drug bust in UK is suspicious too. He was seeing Yoko. It was only him and Yoko doing drugs at her hotel. They only ones who'd have known they were there doing drugs was John, Yoko and his dealer. John had never been raided for drugs before. He was a good customer and I doubt his dealer turned him in. So who then? Yoko had lived in NYC since her parents moved there in her teens. John always lived in England. With the raid and John being arrested for drugs and fleeing from England to avoid court and prison, the question about where the couple would live was answered. They'd live where Yoko preferred to live, NYC. Could Yoko have been the 1 to warn police about drug use at her apartment? Knowing John would be arrested and have to leave England? If you wanted to separate someone from their friends and family and also force them to live where you lived, it was a nasty thing to do, but it would put her in control of John. We know she did that later when Yoko tipped off customs officers to search Paul and Linda's luggage. Remember, Paul was arrested. So she tipped off police once, why not twice? Yoko hated Linda. Yoko wanted kids with John, to play music with John and to be an artist of note. Linda met Paul when she worked as a photographer and was sent to get pics of him. Linda was a paid photographer and that's a form of art , so Linda was a working artist. Linda was able to have kids, Yoko struggled to do so. Linda played piano and had sung in chorus in Highschool. So Linda played music with Paul and his band and they were successful at it. John and Yoko may have deserved each other, lol. But without him, she'd never be considered a legitimate artist. She was a rich girl who played at being a revolutionary and then an artist. She need him to open doors for her art career. He need her for a Green Card.

  • @ST-xg3gy
    @ST-xg3gy4 ай бұрын

    I love her! What a great, kind and wonderful human being. She was so good for John. Thank you, May!

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    4 ай бұрын

    Couldn't agree more!

  • @chairlesnicol672

    @chairlesnicol672

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@celebritydropI never cared for Pang Mays purple hair, I'm guessing that's to cover up some grey! Lol

  • @kathymarik1932
    @kathymarik19323 ай бұрын

    She was very beautiful as a young person, still is. Yoko would have been very jealous. Pity John didn’t stay with May

  • @christynorman7288

    @christynorman7288

    3 ай бұрын

    As soon as Yoko realised her plan had backfired and John fell for May Pang she started threatening if he didn't return she would see that he didn't get his Green card. Peace out ☮️

  • @uhdudewhy7980
    @uhdudewhy79807 ай бұрын

    Pang's book Loving John is an excellent read.

  • @robyoung9968
    @robyoung99685 ай бұрын

    John and Yoko weren’t as happy they seemed throughout their marriage. It seems that Yoko was extremely controlling, Yoko’s relationship with The Beatles wasn’t great either, she also didn’t treat Julian with any love. Yoko being married to someone famous and used that power. During the separation and affairs they should have probably divorced … Yoko certainly wasn’t innocent in any of her actions.. she was diabolical..

  • @artmakerforever3510
    @artmakerforever35106 ай бұрын

    What a wonderful, calm person. 💝

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    6 ай бұрын

    We agree!

  • @flashflame4952
    @flashflame49526 ай бұрын

    I got to see her movie 2x last year and was knocked out by it all. It was so well done and finally May gets to tell the TRUTH of what was going for real. May was great for John, she got him to see his friends again, make fantastic music but best of all May reunited Julian and Cynthia (YES!). I wish he would have stayed with May.

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    6 ай бұрын

    Totally agree with you flashflame. It's a terrific documentary and it was great to hear May's side of the story.

  • @shirleyminassian1547

    @shirleyminassian1547

    6 ай бұрын

    What a lovely thing to do, yes I wish he'd stay with May too, Yoko doesn't give me good vibes, I read she was very controlling.

  • @nenisguevaragomez8122

    @nenisguevaragomez8122

    6 ай бұрын

    @@shirleyminassian1547 well, John also decided to let Yoko control his life, he was in permanent childlike state with Yoko and it seems that she took advantage of it.

  • @shirleyminassian1547

    @shirleyminassian1547

    6 ай бұрын

    @nenisguevaragomez8122 I totally agree with you, I thought it might have had something to do with his upbringing but it was mentioned that it was related to immigration, yoko was his ticket to stay in America apparently otherwise he was having more fun with May, if Yoko was also handling his business dealings n finances which saved him doing then that's two reasons...either way Yokos treatment of Julian was very cruel and greedy, he was his first child, he didn't deserve any of that.

  • @michaelharrington75

    @michaelharrington75

    6 ай бұрын

    How did she reunite Julian and Cynthia? Why were they estranged from each other? I thought Julian lived with Cynthia?

  • @lindam4006
    @lindam40062 ай бұрын

    Great interview Craig. I found it thru a search after seeing May interviewed by her friend. As a Beatle's fan, I'm happy to discover May & her beautiful story. Tastefully done. We can see that John suffered what we now know to be narcissistic abuse. And May gave him breathing space to connect with himself again. Kudos to you May. Many Blessings.🌻

  • @ellap364

    @ellap364

    28 күн бұрын

    Absolutely. We didn't have the understanding of narcissism back then. Yoko was most definitely divide and conquor

  • @belladonna131
    @belladonna1315 ай бұрын

    SHE REALLY IS A SPECIAL LADY. I DID NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT HER OTHER THAN SHE WORKED WITH OR FOR JOHN AND YOKO AND YOKO WANTED HER TO "SAVE" THEIR MARRIAGE. A BABY SITTER OF SORTS. THAT WAS ALL I KNEW. MS. MAY IS AN INCREDIBLE LADY. SHE'S SMART, BEAUTIFUL AND WAS PUTTING OUT FIRES LEFT AND RIGHT. PLUS, SHE WAS MENDING FENCES ALL OVER THE PLACE WHILE STILL HOLDING DOWN HER REGULAR JOB. WHAT AN INCREDIBLE WOMAN. ❤❤❤

  • @lancep4164
    @lancep41646 ай бұрын

    Yoko’s films about 365 legs and Fly reinforce what an incredible talent she is………………..NOT!!!!

  • @piscesempress1978

    @piscesempress1978

    6 ай бұрын

    well Art is subjective, but yeah I have to agree with some of the avant garde things she did.

  • @potterwalker4823

    @potterwalker4823

    6 ай бұрын

    Even w his enormous fame and influence she still couldn’t sell an album or fill a art gallery waiting room.

  • @Flowerwork7Seraphine

    @Flowerwork7Seraphine

    6 ай бұрын

    @@piscesempress1978 We all know Art is subjective. Hers is Very hit or miss though. 96% miss tbh. Possibly more🙏🏻🇬🇧

  • @denabergman6543

    @denabergman6543

    6 ай бұрын

    Mad respect to the fly. Went well beyond acting.

  • @proudcynophile1901

    @proudcynophile1901

    5 ай бұрын

    😂🤣

  • @bigdawg7703
    @bigdawg77035 ай бұрын

    I saw her on the Joan Rivers Show. She spoke openly and honestly about her time with John. Most don't know Yoko encouraged John to have a relationship up with her. May did and gave John some sanity back into his life. I hope she is doing well.

  • @foofookachoo1136
    @foofookachoo11366 ай бұрын

    May said the only reason John went back to Loco, was because that would give him a much better chance of becoming a USA citizen, being able to go back and forth between the US and England. But just for extra insurance, to keep John living with her, AND keep John interested in her, Yoko came up with a VERY reinforced plan, of getting pregnant with John’s baby!! THAT cinched it for her!! She definitely had him back then!! AND she got pregnant almost immediately after he left May and rejoined Loco!! And it was the same year (1975), in the fall, that he got his immigration papers. It was around the time of his son, Sean’s birth. I have always wondered if John and Loco wouldn’t have had a child, if he would have left her, after getting the immigration papers, and gone back to May!! Because I know if John would have left Loco, to go back to May, and wanted custody of Sean, or even visiting privileges, Loco would have fixed it so John would get neither of privileges!! Even if she had to out and out lie, or pay off other people to persuade the court that John wasn’t a fit father!! Loco Yoko is a real piece of work!! I guess she is into witchcraft, also!! So THAT makes her an honest to goodness REAL WITCH!!

  • @joannedavis1991
    @joannedavis19913 ай бұрын

    Yoko was a bad piece of work. May has a lot of class.

  • @BarbGleeson-hf3et
    @BarbGleeson-hf3et2 ай бұрын

    Awesome interview. Respectful, May is so classy..what a spirit she has. Am in love with interviewer Craig. He hits the bullseye every time. How this channel doesn't have more subscribers, I'll never know. Have been up half the night watching these mesmerising conversations.

  • @rosalindalay4499
    @rosalindalay44993 ай бұрын

    May..you were spared from his demise and left with the good memories ❤very classy lady you are.

  • @FreedomRock44
    @FreedomRock447 ай бұрын

    I remember that feeling when John Died and everyone in the street by his apartment with candles it was on All THREE networks. The World was crushed.

  • @JohnLennon99791

    @JohnLennon99791

    6 ай бұрын

    I am still crushed

  • @BeingforthebenefitofMrPerkins

    @BeingforthebenefitofMrPerkins

    6 ай бұрын

    I was 7yrs old and it effected me still all these years later.

  • @eily_b

    @eily_b

    6 ай бұрын

    He didn't just die, he was murdered by a fame-seeking monster.

  • @lowenbad

    @lowenbad

    6 ай бұрын

    I was 5 years old, and I remember it like it was yesterday. I told everyone who would listen. I was already a big Beatles fan thanks to my parents giving me their old albums and singles when I was 4. I played them on a tiny Fischer price record player in my room. I would put my “little people” on the center of the record while it was playing and pretend that they were The Beatles giving me a concert… I know the Magical Mystery Tour album front to back in both 33 and 45 speed. Lol. I also watched the Beatles cartoon every morning on the local UHF station.

  • @NoNameNo.5

    @NoNameNo.5

    6 ай бұрын

    Well I wasn’t alive but that’s how we felt when Kurt died

  • @DrRussPhd
    @DrRussPhd6 ай бұрын

    May was a better person for John than Yoko ever was. Yoko was a vampire and a leach.

  • @kevinjoseph517

    @kevinjoseph517

    6 ай бұрын

    N Julian.

  • @DJarry394

    @DJarry394

    6 ай бұрын

    John was not good for Yoko. Her art career floundered, and it wasn’t because she did “weird” things. That was the art scene at the time. It was conceptual and performance art. If people only read a fucking book about art history after WWII. She married a pop singer, it was seen as a kind of surrender to the mainstream and commercial among the avant-garde

  • @Flowerwork7Seraphine

    @Flowerwork7Seraphine

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@DJarry394 Stop swearing numpty. Nobody takes you seriously & Art is subjective but unfortunately her Art was always always 96% miss & much less hit🙏🏻🇬🇧

  • @robinoftheelves
    @robinoftheelves6 ай бұрын

    Happy he was able to have such a positive force and real love in his short life with May.

  • @michaelj.4187
    @michaelj.41873 ай бұрын

    sending love and peace to everyone...

  • @TheBeatlesWoW
    @TheBeatlesWoW6 ай бұрын

    We all love May. She gave a great interview on our channel

  • @gailg2327
    @gailg23275 ай бұрын

    The angel on John’s shoulder in those 18 months, for sure. What a woman! Great Movie‼

  • @tombeauchamp703
    @tombeauchamp7036 ай бұрын

    May Pang seems to be a really kind person

  • @northerncomfortquilts124
    @northerncomfortquilts1242 ай бұрын

    The movie was really good made me cry I think he used her and she loved him and had no clue he was using her she was young and naive it must be so hard to lose someone without closure. It’s on prime video to rent

  • @ashleynicole1313
    @ashleynicole13136 ай бұрын

    To me, John and Yoko perfectly represent the Borderline/Narcissist relationship dynamic. I really wish he could have stayed with May. She seemed like a very stable, loving, and reliable person which is exactly what John needed. I wish there was more of a dialogue around these issues back then, and I wonder if John recognized the toxic pattern that was playing out if he would have attempted to leave Yoko.

  • @Flowerwork7Seraphine

    @Flowerwork7Seraphine

    6 ай бұрын

    She might well be a Narc & he was desperate to please/terrified of her - but he's never been Borderline that's just ridiculous. JL was vulnerable bc of his actual Mother & what happened to him, but nothing more🙏🏻🇬🇧

  • @ashleynicole1313

    @ashleynicole1313

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Flowerwork7Seraphine if you think it’s so ridiculous, you either don’t have a good understanding of BPD or you don’t have a good understanding of John’s behaviors that have been commented on for years by the people closest to him. I’d give this a read. joss.tcnj.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/176/2016/04/2016-Fade.pdf

  • @dondamon4669

    @dondamon4669

    6 ай бұрын

    Yoko was just very dirty and sexual

  • @francesjohnson3045

    @francesjohnson3045

    5 ай бұрын

    He had some inner demon that wanted to be humiliated and dominated, stupid man

  • @maryyoung5190

    @maryyoung5190

    5 ай бұрын

    Probably she blackmailed him with immigration what a sad person yoko is

  • @playitstrange129
    @playitstrange129Ай бұрын

    great interview, mate! something is driving me nuts, though... what morning show here in Aus are/were you on? you're soooooo familiar!!!! ✌🏻👊🏻🤟🏻

  • @carysbenson8061

    @carysbenson8061

    Ай бұрын

    I found this that might explain Craig Bennett's familiarity. I love this site and his interviews, so I had a bit of a look: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Bennett

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    Ай бұрын

    Sorry we're driving you nuts! Craig and I met while working on Studio 10 but we both left some time ago. So that's where you've probably seen him.

  • @darmonweir5910

    @darmonweir5910

    Ай бұрын

    Yes, I've found Craig has done some great interviews with major stars when doing that OZ morning show (I'm on the US east coast, so don't know the show but was ingrained by his excellent reporting/presenting/interviewing prowess). You can startle up some terrific ones on KZread.

  • @playitstrange129

    @playitstrange129

    Ай бұрын

    @@celebritydrop thats it!! i knew it was on channel 10.. but i couldnt remember if it was on old Moonface's show (GMA) or Studio 10... Thank you!! X

  • @lenoregorman4688
    @lenoregorman46883 ай бұрын

    May is so interesting and hilarious; I'm glad John and her got together; looking forward to watching the movie!

  • @georginahawes1196
    @georginahawes11966 ай бұрын

    The half eaten apple and John coffee note story hilarious!

  • @fernandodeleon7466
    @fernandodeleon74666 ай бұрын

    Yoko - (screaming like crazy) I'm gonna show you I got talent !! Audience - what a crazy b ... May - Hello, I'm May, what can I do for you ? Audience - Love this woman !!

  • @Clau1982
    @Clau19826 ай бұрын

    I've always found the whole John&Yoko's image too romanticized and flaky. Hence, I am glad that May got to share her truth about the so called "Lost Weekend" which had basically been dismissed and unfairly regarded as meaningless

  • @uaremymuse1
    @uaremymuse13 ай бұрын

    I never knew this story. Thank you for sharing May. I guess everyone wonders what road John’s life might have taken had they remained together. My suspicion is that you were too grounded for John’s personality, much like Cynthia’s.

  • @scarroll5934
    @scarroll59343 ай бұрын

    Yoko was more of a mother figure to John. She wanted to control him. May was more of a friend and lover to John. May truly wanted John to experience the joy of being a good person and finding happiness in life. That’s why she encouraged him to reconnect with his friends and family. Yoko was greedy and didn’t want John to have anyone but her in his life. Yoko manipulated and plotted to dominate John. That’s how she made him doubt himself.

  • @christynorman7288

    @christynorman7288

    3 ай бұрын

    Yoko has controlled Sean too. No mind of his own. When he was the recipient of all of John wealth he was old enough to give half the Julian but didn't. ☮️

  • @colindeer9657
    @colindeer96576 ай бұрын

    Firstly many thanks for your presentation. Much appreciated. Love May and everything she did for John. He changed his life. This infuriated Yoko who then became very underhanded and lied to get John back. Poor May was stabbed in the back by Yoko, in everything, job wise, everything !!! A great interview. A lovely lady, May .

  • @christynorman7288

    @christynorman7288

    5 ай бұрын

    What did yoko say & lying to get John back ?

  • @SuziQ.

    @SuziQ.

    5 ай бұрын

    @@christynorman7288, She threatened his immigration status.

  • @doriwilson6991
    @doriwilson69915 ай бұрын

    I read about their relationship in the James Patterson book "The Last Days of John Lennon " I think she was a really good influence on him and kept him grounded before he went back to Yoko Ono.

  • @user-ls4vb6dq7z
    @user-ls4vb6dq7z6 ай бұрын

    May is a wonderful person and I look forward to watching this documentary. We're about the same age and, like so many, I loved John Lennon. My favorite song is him singing Norwegian Wood. Thanks again for yet another wonderful interview!

  • @beejay4025

    @beejay4025

    6 ай бұрын

    Have you ever listened to Waylon Jennings version of Norwegian wood?😊

  • @alexanderv7702

    @alexanderv7702

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@beejay4025where can it be found? Thanks

  • @piscesempress1978
    @piscesempress19786 ай бұрын

    I think she is so lovely. I think if John had stayed with her, the Beatles would have gotten back together, and Julian and John would have had a much better relationship.

  • @user-ik3vd5sc9d
    @user-ik3vd5sc9d5 ай бұрын

    After being with this young lady, it's difficult to imagine how John could go back to Yoko.

  • @proudcynophile1901

    @proudcynophile1901

    5 ай бұрын

    To secure his immigration status!

  • @MollyMeyers121
    @MollyMeyers1213 ай бұрын

    Seriously a brilliant interview. Great interviewer, and May Pang is classy and so dignified in her telling of her story 😊

  • @Willsontime
    @Willsontime3 ай бұрын

    Great interview

  • @patriciaeddy7629
    @patriciaeddy76296 ай бұрын

    It's good John got some happiness after all those years Yoko controlled everything. He was losing his confidence and May brought it back.

  • @darmonweir5910
    @darmonweir59107 ай бұрын

    This is wonderful, As a long time Beatles fan, so much has been answered through Miss Pang's insights. What can I say - yet another excellent conversation.

  • @PaulSmith-pz9eq
    @PaulSmith-pz9eq3 ай бұрын

    She is so cool !

  • @leannlaplante3643
    @leannlaplante36436 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this smart and warm interview with May Pang. You ask good questions. You listen to the person you're interviewing. I appreciate that.

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    6 ай бұрын

    Thank you for your comment Le Ann. Craig and I appreciate your feedback. Kelley

  • @stratplayr6997
    @stratplayr69976 ай бұрын

    Such a sweet, beautiful lady. I always enjoy May's interviews and her recollections of her time with John. It's a shame that they didn't stay together because she was really good for him - he got to be himself when he was with her - he started making music again and reconnected with his friends and the other Beatles (his brothers, as May says). I definitely want to see this film. As for Yoko, there's nothing I can say that hasn't been said already. I hope she's happy with the life she made for herself.

  • @ecobeattv6246
    @ecobeattv62466 ай бұрын

    I talked to May in Kansas City recently. She is very warm and comfortable to visit with. It was a special day for me.

  • @twinkletoes22221
    @twinkletoes222216 ай бұрын

    Love the sincerity of May

  • @stevebeimler2579
    @stevebeimler25796 ай бұрын

    Very moving and insightful interview - bless you May…

  • @user-ur6rg2vr9t
    @user-ur6rg2vr9t6 ай бұрын

    May Pang is just wonderful..she is a true light in this world ..the film was absolutely beautiful!! Bravo !!

  • @squorly
    @squorly5 ай бұрын

    Really enjoyed this interview, I could listen to May talk for hours. I can't wait to watch the documentary. May did so much good for John and the people in his life. The opposite of the one he went back to.

  • @garrieleepeck8753
    @garrieleepeck8753Ай бұрын

    What a nice lady

  • @BillySBC
    @BillySBC6 ай бұрын

    May Pang is hilarious, she's an Asian girl who sounds like an Italian girl from New York, haha! Very interesting woman.

  • @revrotunda3206

    @revrotunda3206

    6 ай бұрын

    Yeah, has the NY accent from being born & raised there just like black people born & raised in England have the British accent which is completely different than when they are raised in the big metro cities of the USA

  • @maryalicecoleman4661
    @maryalicecoleman46616 ай бұрын

    Wonderful interview. Thank you!

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    6 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @joyspettigue2855
    @joyspettigue28555 ай бұрын

    May was sooo good for John ,very lovely down to earth just what he needed !!!!!❤️🇬🇧💐💐💐💐

  • @brucestewart7371
    @brucestewart73715 ай бұрын

    Great interview, enjoyed it thoroughly! Now I have to see the movie in the proper format!! Thanks again ❤

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    5 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it and the documentary is definitely worth watching. Kelley

  • @sandrajohnson2489
    @sandrajohnson24896 ай бұрын

    I don't know much about May but she looks young and seems like a very nice and decent lady. Not like Yoko. Ugh.

  • @primordiallab
    @primordiallab5 ай бұрын

    This was a really compassionate, to-the-point interview, Craig. Really loved the down-to-earthness of you and May. Just loved it 🥰 note: Aussie, Melbourne

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    5 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it and hello Melbourne from Sydney and the GC!

  • @tod3msn
    @tod3msn5 ай бұрын

    I’m one of the few who saw the documentary. Because it has had a limited release. In my view, it is about celebrity and especially before social media stars could for the main do what they wanted. May Pang according to the documentary was selected by John and Yoko to be his lover. John and Yoko with no doubt picked May for this role said the documentary. May worked for John and Yoko and was very young about 21. This action was horrible because it took advantage of a lopsided power dynamic. It forever changed May’s life in a way May did not fully understand at that time. This intrusion into her realty by John and Yoko caused May to now have this forever benchmark of the three years of John Lennon into her life. It’s a good documentary that shows John and Yoko as flawed people and May as someone taken advantage of by John and Yoko.

  • @faithallen1169
    @faithallen11696 ай бұрын

    What a sweet lady.

  • @BerryBerry1465
    @BerryBerry14656 ай бұрын

    I believe you can love more than one person in your life. For this time period in their lives, perhaps it was that. Thanks May for sharing. I'm going to watch your documentary. You have had an interesting life.

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    6 ай бұрын

    Well said and the documentary is definitely worth watching.

  • @adamfindlay7091
    @adamfindlay70916 ай бұрын

    Shes so sweet and adorable.☮️

  • @adelemasters43
    @adelemasters436 ай бұрын

    Yoko was so bad for John. He lost his mother, saw Yoko a mother figure. She used John and was a very jealous woman! From a very truthful source, who since has passed, said John wanted to leave Yoko prior to his death. This woman, May, seems lovely, honest and only wanted the best for John. Unlike Yoko, who isolated him from his 3 brothers!

  • @Taluta394

    @Taluta394

    6 ай бұрын

    Prince Harry & his wife 2.0

  • @SueProv
    @SueProv7 ай бұрын

    Excellent interview. Maybe the best I've seen with her.

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    7 ай бұрын

    High praise indeed Sue. Thank you for your kind words.

  • @linanicolia1363
    @linanicolia13636 ай бұрын

    Fantastic interview and what a great human being.......She is riveting and the content of the interview was perfect. Thank you !!!!!

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    6 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it Lina. Thank you for watching.

  • @GrannySweets
    @GrannySweets5 ай бұрын

    A delightful surprise and I look forward to more through her documentary. 🌈✌🌻

  • @ShineMedia1
    @ShineMedia16 ай бұрын

    Great interview, interviewer and lovely guest. Very good vibrations coming from it ✌️🕊️

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    6 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your lovely comment.

  • @joanneevans1295
    @joanneevans12957 ай бұрын

    What an incredible interview. The best I have ever seen May Pang participate in. She is so classy and elegant and her story compelling. Can't wait to see the documentary. Love this so much I watched it through twice. Excellent work Craig Bennett :)

  • @CelestialSerendipity
    @CelestialSerendipity6 ай бұрын

    This is so interesting omg

  • @stephaniewestfall41
    @stephaniewestfall414 ай бұрын

    Life happens how it is meant to happen. I watched the documentary and it brought me to tears. The life John could have had with May could have kept him with us longer. Of course, it’s not Yoko’s fault we lost him but hard not to feel that this one choice changed the course of his life for the worse not better. His relationship with Yoko was unhealthy but we will never know why he went back to her. Sometimes we go back to our dark places because we don’t know how to be happy, we are more at home in the darkness. Yoko probably knew John’s darkest places, and he may not have been able to accept the love from someone so good and innocent like May. He may have not felt deserving of May’s love. She was so young and he had lived a lifetime. I wish John would have loved himself enough to be happy with May. More heartbreaking was Julian’s loss. Yoko did everything to destroy that relationship. Even to this day Julian has never recovered. John was complex and deeply wounded person. Deep scars from his mother. I’m sad he never seemed to find healing before he lost his life. I’m happy though he had this with May even if it was for a short period. Thank you for sharing your story May. I didn’t know John but since I was a girl I felt him a certain way through his music and I feel like this documentary touched on that feeling I had of him.

  • @joebrewer4529

    @joebrewer4529

    3 ай бұрын

    You do realize at the end of his lies. He wanted to turn to conservative values right? And he never made that trip back to England and he didn’t write the song imagine.

  • @fazole

    @fazole

    3 ай бұрын

    @@joebrewer4529 Have you read "Billy's Back"? Do you follow Mike Williams channel? Also the Number Nine blog?

  • @joebrewer4529

    @joebrewer4529

    3 ай бұрын

    @@fazole I haven’t seen those. I have to check them out. Thanks for the suggestions know everything I said above it’s just when you get into the fact that yoko is a communist. Him turning conservative heaven had somebody ghost write a song that he was probably coerced into publishing. Meanwhile, I want to be coerced mean like he was enamored with her and the whole ideology was an amber with that and the story of the election, I think in 72 where he’s at the party, and he feels humiliated that he’s being used again I think at the end of his lies, he come to a completely different conclusion, which for what it’s worth I think subconsciously you can tell that it is songs on double fantasy he found out probably that he wasn’t some radical ideologies. I would like to think the last moment in his life he realize he made a mistake he probably would’ve had no idea why he been shot. I’m sure that was set up because he hast to continue the agenda.

  • @christynorman7288

    @christynorman7288

    3 ай бұрын

    Stephanie - the only hold she had on him was the GREEN CARD -YOKO held it like a carrot on front of him and the loss of it terrified him. That was the only hold. I didn't realise she had so many lovers. And in the Dakota Buildings there was a whole floor which was refrigerated and held their 200 fur coats. This didn't seem like John to me more like Yoko ideas. Who would be for peace when killing wild animals lay behind it. How many Mink coats, Russian fox etc does one need. I don't think it was John at all. He loved animals. Peace out ☮️

  • @A.Briggs628
    @A.Briggs6286 ай бұрын

    I absolutely LOVE May Pang!! What a great video! I truly enjoyed every second of it. I think this is my third time watching it because May is so charismatic, and interesting. Not to mention, such a lovely lady. I wish John would’ve stayed with May! Honestly, I do! Something tells me, he might still be with us if he had! I always had thoughts that yoko COULD have had something to do with John’s murder. I say that because, I read, John wasn’t barely cold yet before she moved another guy into the Dakota apartment!! I’m not alone when I say, I just never liked her! Thank you so very much for sharing this wonderful video with us all!! I love and miss John so much. I was 23 years old when he died! We were having a birthday party for my little brother’s 16th, dec 8, 1980! Having a great time when we heard Howard Cosell interrupt the football game to announce that awful news! We stopped the party, and just sat there in my parents living room..not understanding what the hell was happening!! Love this video.. and I love May! Thanks, again!

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    6 ай бұрын

    So glad you enjoyed our conversation with May. She is such a sweet lady and it's lovely to hear that they had such a lovely relationship - and one that continued right up to his death.

  • @user-up3zt9ix8g

    @user-up3zt9ix8g

    5 ай бұрын

    Yes I was 22 and watching the game when Howard C. Came on and said he died. I ran down stairs crying like a baby. My room mates freaking out what what what's happening. I crying out my guy is dead my soul feels shredded in two. I played Julia and prudence on guitar all night crying out loud. R.I.P Johnny and the moon dogs the sliver Beatles, the Beatles the elephant memory band plastic Ono band......bye Walrus Winston Ono Lennon rock on were ever Krishna took you bro

  • @ancienttech4636
    @ancienttech46365 ай бұрын

    May Pang is a very sweet soul who will do very well during and after the shift to the next world. I am in love!! ❤❤

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    5 ай бұрын

    I hope so!

  • @frankperry1111
    @frankperry11115 ай бұрын

    One of his big mistakes was falling for Yoko. Cynthia was all he ever really needed.

  • @Bella-nt7ec

    @Bella-nt7ec

    4 ай бұрын

    Cynthia didn't need all that, she said herself

  • @christynorman7288

    @christynorman7288

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes Cynthia had said at art college John was a lovable rogue he kept smoking her ciggies I think she was middle class but in any case she was well grounded. Since their split she had set up three restaurants and was disheartened when John didn't show much attention to Julian. Who amazingly has turned into a good human being. Yoko had been unking to him and held into John's 300 million plus not giving any to Julian. He had gone into music and photography etc and made his own way. He looked more like John than Sean did. So Yoko is --- despite coming from a wealthy Japanese merchant bankers background --- money grubbing specimen --- what good has it done her Landing up in a wheelchair. No one would have heard of her but for John. She is a mean, vindictive, spiteful, jealous person - I don't expect that she thought pushing John and May Pang together that they would fall in love. The only was she got him back as a control freak was to threaten him with The loss of his entitlement of the green card. She also fell pregnant immediately after grabbing him back from May Pang to tether them together. Shame May Pang didn't have a baby with him but the narcissist that was Yoko wouldn't let go. She also coerced John to turn into a house husband and stay in the apartments looking after Sean. She didn't want him to expand his horizons further than hers. Peace out ☮️

  • @michaeldee8443
    @michaeldee84436 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this interview. Totally Groovy! ☮

  • @celebritydrop

    @celebritydrop

    6 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @martinone9
    @martinone96 ай бұрын

    May Pang has good vibes,she’s always smiling and friendly. John was better off with her,he was more productive and was reaching out to old friends more.Yoko was the opposite,dark vibes,she kept him from his family and friends and she turned him into a recluse.

  • @dondamon4669

    @dondamon4669

    6 ай бұрын

    He wanted to be a junkie and Yoko let him also she looked after his money

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