Yoko Ono, Pang claims in the documentary, asked her to hang out with her husband when the couple started having problems
The so-called “Lost Weekend,” the period from late 1973 to 1974, when John Lennon split from Yoko Ono and moved to Los Angeles, spent nights in rock clubs and had an affair with 22-year-old Mei Pang (who was an assistant of John and Yoko) have long been part of rock mythology. It has been covered in a documentary by E! and from the biography “The Lives of John Lennon” by Albert Goldman.
The woman who went from being John Lennon’s secretary to the rock legend’s extramarital partner reveals her side of what she claims is a misunderstood story in new documentary “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story”.
The ‘weekend’ which actually lasted 18 months and which coincided with the Beatles singer’s split from Yoko Ono was seen as a period of great excess and deep regret. But according to Mei Pang, “John Leon was hanging out with his friends and having a lot of fun.” “And because I was 10 years younger, we got to do everything that young couples do,” she explained.
“It was then that John Lennon became a regular at the Rainbow Bar & Grill along with Harry Neilson, Alice Cooper, Bernie Taupin, and others who became known as the Hollywood Vampires. After 18 months of partying and introspection, John returned to Yoko, commenting at the time that “the breakup didn’t work out,” says Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman.
The central figure in the new documentary “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story” has told her story many times, in her memoirs and on talk shows. Excerpts from her performances have been included in the film directed by Yves Brandstein, Richard Kaufman and Stuart Samuels.
Mei Pang, 72 today, grew up in Spanish Harlem as a second-generation Chinese-American in the documentary tells her own version, as a minority among minorities who fell in love with rock and roll, reports Variety.
He was just 19 when he got a job at Apple Records and was soon working as Lennon and Ono’s personal assistant. In a clip of Ono’s interview included in the documentary, the artist calls Pang “a very good assistant” and Pang explains that her job was to “take care of everything, work in the studio, perform costume duties, be in charge of the public relations”.
Yoko Ono, Pang claims, asked her to hang out with her husband when the couple started having problems.
“Yoko came into my office and said, ‘John and I don’t get along. I want you to go out with him,'” Pang says in the trailer. “Are you kidding me? I can’t do that, he’s my employer, he’s my boss. He is your husband” she replied.
In the trailer, Pang says that Yoko Ono didn’t expect it to develop into a relationship and last. “The romance, which was later called Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend’, ‘wasn’t so lost, people saw more of John compared to previous years,'” Mei Pang argues, adding that it was artistically and commercially his most productive period. They’re after the Beatles broke up.
The documentary features an interview with John Lennon’s son Julian Lennon as well as old footage of the former Beatles member, including an interview in which he calls his time with Pang “a joke”.
The documentary will begin screening in US theaters on April 13.
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