It could be argued that the 'Lost Weekend' (if that's the term generally accepted as the time John and May were together) never completely ended.
Indeed, May Pang recalls that as late as 1978 she and John shared an intimate rendezvous... and were still communicating surreptitiously the year Lennon was murdered.
One could read a thousand books about the Beatles and be amazed at how many of these authors profess to have access to 'Inside Information' boldly claiming their account to be more credible than others. Dubious alliances had been formed by some of the key personalities surrounding the Beatles, each spouting their own particular 'truth'... so the exasperated reader would remain in a mesmerizing state of confusion.
May Pang totally discounts Lennon's account to 'Playboy' magazine as the "party-line version", even expecting Lennon to phone and "apologize for all the lies he told."
And again, Yoko Ono's account varies quite considerably to May's.
It's not unreasonable to assume neither May Pang, Yoko Ono or John Lennon would have known know the total truth... all three probably kept secrets from each other. Lennon will never be renown for his loyalty to women, so might Lennon have told May one thing, then the contrary to Yoko, in order to maintain some kind of fragile truce?
May almost certainly would not have revealed all in her book 'Loving John', she would have most likely held back on many accounts, be they too personal, too provocative, or simply... truths too revealing. It all boils down to a matter of interpretation and to which account the reader affords the most credibility.
To my way of thinking, and I certainly have no access to 'Inside Information', I essentially trust May Pang's recollections of the 'Lost Weekend'. After all, she was the only person present during the majority of that time, although clearly, her account can never be interpreted as unbiased.
At the time May Pang wrote her book, it was considered nothing short of sensational. A quarter of a century later, with gossip magazines forever pumping out stories of celebrities undergoing rehab and endless expos�s of gratuitous celebrity's affairs, it almost seems mandatory these days for a celebrity to be involved in a scandal of one kind or another.
Time has quietly softened the controversial impact of the 'Lost Weekend'... but time should never dissolve nor distort the truth.
If this website helps to "airbrush" May Pang back as an integral and intimate part of John Lennon's extraordinary life, then yeah... that's all this website ever intended to achieve.
I end this website with this thought...
If fate had John Lennon meet May Pang before any other,
would the unique love they shared have held them together... inseparably?
