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.
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. ❤
@@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.
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.😢
She is an absolute sweetheart. Many, many years ago I went onto some online forum bemoaning the fact that I'd heard an ugly rumour where, on a recent CD re-release, Yoko had erased May's whisper in "#9 Dream" and overdubbed it with her own voice. Imagine my surprise the following morning when I opened my inbox and found a personal email from Ms Pang herself straitening me out on that point. I wrote her a note of thanks and she even wrote back a second time. A lovely, gracious lady.
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.🌻
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!
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.
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.
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.
17:11 - One of the best photos I'd seen of him. His face, his real face, for the world to see - no heavy glasses, no disguises, no mugging, no attempts to hide his eyes. The photo of him in the pool shows exactly who was underneath the "LENNON" mystique.
What an amazing interview. I never knew much about May or her time with John Lennon and I have to say that I'm now going to rent her documentary, as I'm utterly enthralled by everything that was discussed here in this interview. ☮
What a wonderful interview. And props to this gentleman for being an intelligent, SINCERE, person who appeared to have a genuine interest and concern for his subject. The best 32 minutes I've spent on the internet in a while. THANK YOU!!!!
After they started their relationship John always called May by her Chinese name, Fung Yee. I'm reading May's book 'Loving John' and find it to be a fascinating view into John & Yoko's lives.and personalities. What she wrote coincides with what I've read about them in other biographies. I got the impression that Yoko used May to keep an eye on John while letting him sow his wild oats and she got her's. Yoko was born into a wealthy Japanese banking family and I think she didn't want to risk losing control of John's fortune. May wrote that in the Japanese culture it's customary for a wealthy man to have a mistress. I always thought it was so romantic how May whispered 'John' in Number 9 Dream.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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!
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.
@@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.
@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.
I always felt that May Pang was used by Yoko Ono. She was young and vulnerable at the time. But she was also big hearted and really wanted the best for John, Julian and Sean. Yoko knew that and took advantage of her naivete She treated her like a pawn in her little narcissistic game.
Wow I'm going to re-watch this a few times it is excellent imho thank you both very much. Btw she is so beautiful how could John resist plus her great personality.😊
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
Now this is a really great interview. ❤Saw it twice, so compelling. May seems real nice. Didn’t know a heck of a lot about John’s complicated personal life. Wow.
Everyone keeps saying- Had John stayed with May, he would have been better off. Well, when YOKO is playing with Black Magic and connecting with demonic forces - She used those forces to control John and Make him do as she wanted, even if it went against his wishes. He had no control over the evil demonic forces that she summoned up and used on him. This is no joke. I am being so sincere.
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.
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 .
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.
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!
@@soulthriver-oz6470 I adore this song It is so poetic and seems to sum up the artistic sensibility of John Lennon, and any artist really I came to him in a dream, which is wonderful
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.
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.
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.
It's still impossible to believe. Yoko said at the end of "John Lennon in New York" DVD "why would you kill an artist?" He was a musician who sometimes shot his mouth off, but most of what he said made sense and was relatable.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
@@DJarry394 Stop swearing numpty. Nobody takes you seriously & Art is subjective but unfortunately her Art was always always 96% miss & much less hit🙏🏻🇬🇧
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
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 UA-cam.
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 :)
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
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!
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.
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
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!!
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.
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. ❤❤❤
@@belladonna131 GOD BLESS THIS EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN...she was a wonderful influence on John .. thankful she got things smoothed out with Cynthia Julian and John
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 !!
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.
Oh I’m sure she is, she got all his money, which is mostly what she was after. And his celebrity status rubbing off on her. She was a bad influence, this woman would have been a good one.
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
Thank you May Pang for enlightening us all about John Lennon!! How I wish he stayed with you because he could be himself with you. I also am a Libra 10/11 and could relate to many of his feelings. Keep doing your wonderful work in Johns memory 💙
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.
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.
The documentary is great. I was happy to see how happy John seems during that time. I'm just reading the book Dakota Days when he returns back to YO...his miserable caged life resumed.
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.
We love you, May. A wonderful human being, then and now. And a stunning young beauty, back then. ❤
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 😂😂😂
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. ❤
May was as pretty as a picture, and is still full of life and glamour and charm.
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.
@@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.
So Beautiful! How can John not fall in love with her❓❓
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.😢
She is an absolute sweetheart. Many, many years ago I went onto some online forum bemoaning the fact that I'd heard an ugly rumour where, on a recent CD re-release, Yoko had erased May's whisper in "#9 Dream" and overdubbed it with her own voice. Imagine my surprise the following morning when I opened my inbox and found a personal email from Ms Pang herself straitening me out on that point. I wrote her a note of thanks and she even wrote back a second time. A lovely, gracious lady.
@@SunDemon-h9q Yes... RUMOR
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.🌻
Absolutely. We didn't have the understanding of narcissism back then. Yoko was most definitely divide and conquor
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!
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.
Excellent interview with May Pang. Thanks Craig!
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.
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.
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.
17:11 - One of the best photos I'd seen of him. His face, his real face, for the world to see - no heavy glasses, no disguises, no mugging, no attempts to hide his eyes. The photo of him in the pool shows exactly who was underneath the "LENNON" mystique.
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.
Uh....she said yes when Yoko pimped her....and she is moving forward?....she keeps talking about it and milking it.
@@richbailey8174 so has dopey Joko!
@@OCTOBERBABY7901 True.....:)
I believe everything she says. She describes her memories from that period with such clarity and detail.
That's because she told Moonie no when he offered her some "stuff"
What an amazing interview. I never knew much about May or her time with John Lennon and I have to say that I'm now going to rent her documentary, as I'm utterly enthralled by everything that was discussed here in this interview. ☮
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.
brilliant interview !
Beautiful soul
Beautiful energy and THIS was the right match for John
She's a special Treasure
Wow. That's a helluva brazen assumption.@@r.m.simone396
John Lennon was in love with sex. Not women
May Pang has not changed. Still beautiful, still centered, still sincere and classy..
Cheers!
@trevorsmith7753 Age is irrelevant. 😀
And still milking her affair with John Lennon....what does that say?
@@richbailey8174 It was not an affair. See if you read the story you would know this.
Oh maybe "affair" was being kind.....more like she was pimped by Yoko!@@okguy1282
@trevorsmith7753 as Chinese women do??????? All people, you mean
Excellent interviewER! James
May is so interesting and hilarious; I'm glad John and her got together; looking forward to watching the movie!
What a wonderful interview. And props to this gentleman for being an intelligent, SINCERE, person who appeared to have a genuine interest and concern for his subject. The best 32 minutes I've spent on the internet in a while.
THANK YOU!!!!
Seriously a brilliant interview. Great interviewer, and May Pang is classy and so dignified in her telling of her story 😊
After they started their relationship John always called May by her Chinese name, Fung Yee. I'm reading May's book 'Loving John' and find it to be a fascinating view into John & Yoko's lives.and personalities. What she wrote coincides with what I've read about them in other biographies. I got the impression that Yoko used May to keep an eye on John while letting him sow his wild oats and she got her's. Yoko was born into a wealthy Japanese banking family and I think she didn't want to risk losing control of John's fortune. May wrote that in the Japanese culture it's customary for a wealthy man to have a mistress. I always thought it was so romantic how May whispered 'John' in Number 9 Dream.
So sad that John didn't finish his life with May. She seems so likable. He might still be with us.🙁
I love her! What a great, kind and wonderful human being. She was so good for John. Thank you, May!
Couldn't agree more!
@@kelshepI never cared for Pang Mays purple hair, I'm guessing that's to cover up some grey! Lol
What an enlightening interview with an amazing woman. I have got to see this documentary! Thank you, May (my fellow NYer!) and Craig.
Comes across as an authentic person.
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
Pang's book Loving John is an excellent read.
love this interviewer, always so kind and respectful. and May Pang is a beautiful soul.
John should have stuck with May Pang, she sounds like she was a healthy, normal influence on him.
Then Sean wouldn’t have been born.
@@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.
@@davidemmet7343 WOW 😂🤣😂 really. How long have you been thinking about this. I completely agree that ppl need to get over it. John loved Yoko
@@patriciagonzales2148 I was merely responding to your odd comment.
@@davidemmet7343 it’s not odd, it’s a fact . In response to your comment.
She was able to get John connected with his ex-family because for that brief period Yoko was out of the picture.
That was her mistake
Great interview thank you both very much.
Our pleasure!
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.
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.
@@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.
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!
May is a lovely and intelligent person. I met her twice. So nice. Yes, John seemed happy with her.
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.
Totally agree with you flashflame. It's a terrific documentary and it was great to hear May's side of the story.
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.
@@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.
@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.
How did she reunite Julian and Cynthia? Why were they estranged from each other? I thought Julian lived with Cynthia?
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 ❤
Learned a lot about May & John I didn't know. 👍
I always felt that May Pang was used by Yoko Ono. She was young and vulnerable at the time. But she was also big hearted and really wanted the best for John, Julian and Sean. Yoko knew that and took advantage of her naivete She treated her like a pawn in her little narcissistic game.
Wow I'm going to re-watch this a few times it is excellent imho thank you both very much. Btw she is so beautiful how could John resist plus her great personality.😊
Glad you enjoyed it
What a wonderful, calm person. 💝
We agree!
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
This was fantastic
Happy he was able to have such a positive force and real love in his short life with May.
Now this is a really great interview. ❤Saw it twice, so compelling. May seems real nice. Didn’t know a heck of a lot about John’s complicated personal life. Wow.
Glad you found it compelling.
GOOD ONE. much thx. :)
Everyone keeps saying- Had John stayed with May, he would have been better off. Well, when YOKO is playing with Black Magic and connecting with demonic forces - She used those forces to control John and Make him do as she wanted, even if it went against his wishes. He had no control over the evil demonic forces that she summoned up and used on him. This is no joke.
I am being so sincere.
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.
Yeah, you would know better than John
It always seems like the fussy people get what they want. Nice people finish last sometimes
Quem manda no coração!! Não adianta falar que John podia ter ficado com ela !! Coração fala mais alto!!!
@@cintiamie6476 no Mind CONTROL ruled Lennon's weak brain! J and Y, fake relationship! Get over it, its fake af.
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 .
What did yoko say & lying to get John back ?
@@christynorman7288, She threatened his immigration status.
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.
Incredible interview. Thanks Craig Bennett 🧡
sending love and peace to everyone...
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!
Have you ever listened to Waylon Jennings version of Norwegian wood?😊
@@beejay4025where can it be found? Thanks
@@beejay4025 Ever hear Moonies version of "In My Life:?
NUMBER 9 DREAM IS MY FAVE ALL TIME JOHN LENNON SONG. Deeply affects me. Heavenly, Goosebumps
@@soulthriver-oz6470 I adore this song
It is so poetic and seems to sum up the artistic sensibility of John Lennon, and any artist really
I came to him in a dream, which is wonderful
I get the impression that Yoko recreated her story and May and others were swept under the carpet. May is awesome.
We all love May. She gave a great interview on our channel
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.
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.
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.
Thank you for your comment Le Ann. Craig and I appreciate your feedback. Kelley
Very moving and insightful interview - bless you May…
The half eaten apple and John coffee note story hilarious!
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.
John Lennon's fans still have not gotten over his passing
Young men nowadays do not get over the smallest things and end their lives because of it🙄
And never will 😢
40 man … ridiculous how cut short that was
It's still impossible to believe. Yoko said at the end of "John Lennon in New York" DVD "why would you kill an artist?" He was a musician who sometimes shot his mouth off, but most of what he said made sense and was relatable.
Call IT What IT IS - MURDER
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.
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.
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.
@@bobtaylor170 drugs
It shows how manipulative Yoko was as she likely used John as a platform for her " art"....
@@lynnhubbard844 Well it was the 60's and drugs was always part of the 60s
@@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.
Great interview
Great interview, enjoyed it thoroughly! Now I have to see the movie in the proper format!! Thanks again ❤
Glad you enjoyed it and the documentary is definitely worth watching. Kelley
May Pang is just wonderful..she is a true light in this world ..the film was absolutely beautiful!! Bravo !!
May was a better person for John than Yoko ever was. Yoko was a vampire and a leach.
N Julian.
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
@@DJarry394
Stop swearing numpty.
Nobody takes you seriously
& Art is subjective but
unfortunately her Art was
always always 96% miss
& much less hit🙏🏻🇬🇧
@@DJarry394 🤣🤣🤣🤣 thats the biggest crock of shit I ever heard of!
great interview, mate! something is driving me nuts, though... what morning show here in Aus are/were you on? you're soooooo familiar!!!! ✌🏻👊🏻🤟🏻
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
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.
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 UA-cam.
@@kelshep 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
Great interview, interviewer and lovely guest. Very good vibrations coming from it ✌️🕊️
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your lovely comment.
No wonder why John loves May .. She is full of vibrant energy ❤. They could have been such a wonderful couple with great dynamics.
Fantastic interview and what a great human being.......She is riveting and the content of the interview was perfect. Thank you !!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it Lina. Thank you for watching.
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 :)
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
Glad you enjoyed it and hello Melbourne from Sydney and the GC!
OMG, May Pang was the best thing that ever happened to John. To bad that Yoko had such a hold on him.
Wonderful interview. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
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!
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.
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
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!!
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.
May Pang seems to be a really kind person
There were so many rumors about Paul being dead that he finally commented, "If I died, I would be the last one to know about it."
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. ❤❤❤
@@belladonna131 GOD BLESS THIS EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN...she was a wonderful influence on John .. thankful she got things smoothed out with Cynthia Julian and John
Great interview. It made me subscribe to your channel.
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Yoko’s films about 365 legs and Fly reinforce what an incredible talent she is………………..NOT!!!!
well Art is subjective, but yeah I have to agree with some of the avant garde things she did.
Even w his enormous fame and influence she still couldn’t sell an album or fill a art gallery waiting room.
@@piscesempress1978
We all know Art is subjective.
Hers is Very hit or miss though.
96% miss tbh. Possibly more🙏🏻🇬🇧
Mad respect to the fly. Went well beyond acting.
😂🤣
A delightful surprise and I look forward to more through her documentary. 🌈✌🌻
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 !!
Love the sincerity of May
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.
Oh I’m sure she is, she got all his money, which is mostly what she was after. And his celebrity status rubbing off on her. She was a bad influence, this woman would have been a good one.
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
Thanks, I believe May's every word, not so much Yoko's!
Thank you May Pang for enlightening us all about John Lennon!! How I wish he stayed with you because he could be himself with you.
I also am a Libra 10/11 and could relate to many of his feelings. Keep doing your wonderful work in Johns memory 💙
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.
First time I’ve seen anything from this channel. Such a good interview
Excellent interview. Maybe the best I've seen with her.
High praise indeed Sue. Thank you for your kind words.
I talked to May in Kansas City recently. She is very warm and comfortable to visit with. It was a special day for me.
May was sooo good for John ,very lovely down to earth just what he needed !!!!!❤️🇬🇧💐💐💐💐
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.
The documentary is great. I was happy to see how happy John seems during that time. I'm just reading the book Dakota Days when he returns back to YO...his miserable caged life resumed.
@@theonlycindarelly can you tell me who authored that book?
Dakota was a dreary dark building with bad juju. Remember when Yoko scored a deal of fur coats. People were stopping the fur trade. She was an idiot
I didn't know about May.... very interesting, glad she is coming forward with this memorial. This interview is very good. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it Catherine and the documentary is worth watching. Kelley
Thank you for sharing this interview. Totally Groovy! ☮
Glad you enjoyed it!