May Pang : John Lennon's Lost Weekend (2015)

May Pang : John Lennon's Lost Weekend
Monday Nov 9th 730 PM , May Pang is being honored with the
Ambassador of Rock Award
Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleeker St. NY
http://rockersonbroadway

May Pang, world-renowned confidant and companion of John Lennon,
has been in the public eye for over three decades. Her career in
the music industry spans over 40 years, beginning with Allen
Klein's company, ABKCO Industries, the firm which managed the
Beatles, Apple Corps. Ltd. and the Rolling Stones besides having an
extensive music publishing catalogue which included songs by Sam
Cooke.

In 1970, Lennon and Yoko Ono hired Pang as their personal
assistant. She would eventually become their production coordinator
-- playing a key role in records by Lennon, Ono and Harry Nilsson.
In 1974, Pang was awarded an RIAA Gold Album Award for her work on
Lennon's Walls and Bridges, the #1 hit album which included his
first and only #1 single in his lifetime, "Whatever Gets You Thru
The Night." She can also be heard singing on "#9 Dream," the second
single from the album.

In the late 1970s working for Island Records, Pang coordinated all
activities related to the release of albums by Robert Palmer, Third
World, and Bob Marley and the Wailers. By the early 1980s, she was
one of the leading professional managers in the music publishing
industry, working with several unknown songwriters and successfully
obtaining coverage by such artists as Diana Ross, Judas Priest, The
Four Tops, Ullanda McCullough and Air Supply.


During this period, Pang decided to set the record straight about
her relationship with Lennon. Warner Books published her memoir,
Loving John, in 1983. The book detailed her liaison and working
association with the late Beatle and shed light on his
relationships with his first son, Julian, as well as Paul
McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison.

During the last two decades, Pang has appeared in every major news
and magazine publication worldwide (NY Times, LA Times, Washington
Post, The Daily News, UK’s Mail On Sunday, Vogue online, Germany’s
Die Seite Drei, Marie Claire, People, etc.) and has been a guest on
such national TV shows as Good Morning America, Howard Stern, Good
Morning LA, CBS Sunday Morning, Court TV and Entertainment
Tonight.

Pang has also designed a unique collection of stainless steel Feng
Shui jewelry and accent furniture. She has a weekly internet radio
show with co-host Cynthia Neilson called Dinner Specials on
BlogTalkRadio. Com. Pang continues her consulting work on music for
films and is still an advisory board member of Women In Music. She
also serves as an advisory board member, along with Julian Lennon,
Jeff Bridges to name a few at the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)
organization. ACT deals with saving the rainforest and its
indigenous people. This was started by world known ethnobotanist
Dr. Mark J. Plotkin and conservationist Liliana Madrigal.

In 2008, St. Martin's Press released Instamatic Karma, a collection
of Pang's personal photographs of John Lennon. Fine art prints of
these portraits have been exhibited in major galleries across the
country.

Also in the Fall of 2014, she released a book only for the German
market called John Lennon & May Pang, Another Love. She had
received numerous press coverage in some of Germany’s largest
newspaper publications.

Pang has lectured and given talks at various events across the
country including public libraries and most recently at Berklee
College of Music in Boston sponsored in part by the
Liberal Arts Dept. While there, she also lectured the John Lennon
Songwriting class. She also gave a talk at The Rock & Roll
Fantasy Camp in Las Vegas as a Special Guest Speaker.

She has also been asked to be a guest speaker along with guests
Donovan, Peter Asher, Pattie Boyd and others at The International
Beatles Week 2015 in Liverpool this coming August.

In this age of “social awareness”, Pang was asked to participate as
an artist on a CD called: ALL ABOUT BULLIES…BIG AND SMALL. The CD
won a Grammy for The Best Children’s CD category in 2012.


John Lennon: The Lost Weekend- Living, Loving and Making Rock &
Roll

She shared his life, his music and his love. She was his intimate
companion during the time known as- THE LOST WEEKEND.
May Pang was twenty-two. She was John and Yoko’s personal
assistant, a trusted member of their inner circle of carefully
chosen friends and associates. She budgeted and contracted for
their albums and became an invaluable part of their creative and
personal lives.
When John and Yoko separated, May was enlisted to care for John as
he embarked on a period known as "The Lost Weekend" – an intense
period of enormous creativity and violent self-destructiveness. She
lived, worked, and fell deeply in love with Lennon.
Together they shared a rocky romance, with Yoko waiting in the
wings for John’s return. This is her record of that time, a time
when John was recording, seeing friends, exploring the world and
confronting his own inner demons. It is a personal account written
of life with Lennon by a woman who loved and was loved by one of
the most fascinating creative men of our time. Become a supporter
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