May Pang’s whirlwind romance withJohn Lennonis the stuff of rock ‘n’ roll lore — and in a new documentary, she’s ready to peel back the curtain on their so-called “lost weekend.”
PEOPLE is exclusively premiering the trailer forThe Lost Weekend: A Love Story, which will tell the tale of a young Pang’s 18-month relationship with the former Beatle during his marriage toYoko Ono.
Pang, 72, was just 19 years old when she landed a job at Apple Records, and before long, she was working as the personal assistant to Lennon and Ono, 90.
An old interview clip of Ono featured in the trailer sees the artist call Pang “a very good assistant,” and Pang explains that her job was “taking care of everything, working in the studio, doing clothes, doing the publicity.”
May Pang and John Lennon in 1974.Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty
Though Ono and Lennon married in 1969, they went through something of a rough patch in the early 1970s, prompting Ono to see if Pang would be willing to keep her husband company.
“Yoko walked into my office and said, ‘John and I are not getting along. I want you to go out with him,'” Pang recalls in the trailer. “Well are you kidding? I can’t do that, he’s my employer, he’s my boss. He’s your husband.”
Before long, Pang and Lennon moved in together in New York City, with Pang saying in a voiceover that she “was 23 and my first boyfriend was John Lennon.”
In the trailer, Pang says the romance — which was later dubbed Lennon’s “lost weekend” — “wasn’t so lost; people saw more of John than they had in previous years,” and rattles off a list of stars with whom they hung out, including Mick Jagger, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Elton John and David Bowie.
After nearly two years, though, Lennon and Ono reunited, and his time with Pang came to an end in February 1975.
Yoko Ono and John Lennon in 1969.Daily Herald/Daily Herald/Mirrorpix via Getty Images
The documentary features interview with Lennon’s sonJulian Lennon, plus old footage of the former Beatle, including an interview in which he calls his time with Pang “ridiculous.”
“I’m not even gonna say what happened, some of it was ridiculous,” he says. “One way of putting it.”
source: people.com
