May Pang says Yoko didn't get along with Julian
By Katie Hickox, What Goes On Special Correspondent
May Pang, the young woman that Yoko Ono "approved" to be John Lennon's lover for the "Lost Weekend" back in the early seventies, was interviewed on Tuesday on the Greg Kihn morning show on KFOX 98.5 in San Francisco. Here are some highlights from the show.
May talked about how Yoko didn't want Julian around
because "Yoko just didn't get along with Julian".
May made it possible for Julian to see his Dad, John
Lennon for the first time in the US when she was
living with John in Los Angeles. May also made
staying in touch with Julian a priority for John by
having him call Julian at least once a week.
May said she listened coincidentally to many of the same rock n roll "B sides" growing up that John also listened to
and was influenced by so they shared a common interest
in music despite a 10 year age difference.
May spoke about John's songwriting style which was such that he would
dream of the words or song in his sleep and wake up in
the middle of the night and write down the words on
pad of paper and black felt marker pen he would keep at
the side of his bed before falling back to sleep. If
he didn't wake up and write it down, he wouldn't
remember anything in the morning. The words "Ah!
böwakawa pousse, pousse" from the song #9 Dream on
John Lennons' "Walls and Bridges" are not real words
but just words from a dream. May is the female
vocalist who says "John" over and over again in this song.
The same Friday night that Yoko setup the stop
smoking hypnosis session with John at the Dakota
without May, May said that John had planned on traveling down to New
Orleans that weekend to join up with Paul McCartney
and possibly start writing some songs with him
for his upcoming album, 'Venus and Mars' that Paul was
making in New Orleans. But alas, John's so-called one
hour "stop smoking hypnosis session" turned into a
long drawn out all weekend marathon session from which
he never returned back to May or to his old life. May
guesses that Yoko may have had John drugged,
hypnotized and/or put into a trance. During the
so-called hypnosis session, May believes that John was
told to break off with May and everything in his past
so he could be with Yoko and was told that Yoko was
his "mother" who knows what is best for John. Several
days later May finally ran into John at the dentist's
office and John looked like he hadn't slept in days
and appeared "zombie like" and had difficulty talking.
Then a few months later, May found out that John has
made a complete break with his past by no longer
seeing anyone from his past except for Yoko. This
break with the past also includes breaking off from
his music which is symbolized by hanging a Civil War
Dagger along with his guitar on a wall.
May remembered that Before John got back together with Yoko, he was planning on buying a house that he and May were to live in and that John had picked out. May said she lived with John for 18 months that she was with John.
If you missed Tuesday morning's Greg Kihn's radio
interview with May Pang on KFOX FM98.5, you can still hear some of this interview with
May as Greg will continue to play highlights over the
next few weeks during his morning show, Mondays thru
Friday, from 6am to 10am.
More information:
• KFOX FM98.5 Streaming Audio
• May Pang's Official Web Site
Published March 3, 2005
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