Loving John: The Untold Story
by May Pang, Henry Edwards
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Author: Henry Edwards, May PangReader: John Lennon
Reader: Yoko Ono
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1983-08
ISBN: 0446379166
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Warner Books
Book Reviews of Loving John: The Untold Story
Book Review: First hand account
Summary: 5 Stars
To believe or not to believe - well, the more you read on John's life the more disbelief befalls you. The Ray Coleman-Eliot Mintz book is nearly unreadable as it goes overboard often (i.e., many repeats of the "John was such a super macho guy" and the oft repeated "John and Yoko are artists", as though their positions were equal. Lennon's art changed the world, Yoko's got her slight notice). Also, the mild slighting of John's work with the Beatles and comparative building up of his solo output.
Here is the account of a woman who was put in a most ridiculous position. Yoko sends May off to be John's lover. First off, if this alone doesn't convince you who wore the pants and made the rules at the Dakota, nothing will. How did Lennon deal with that? Staying in bed getting stoned all day. Wasting time.
Well, John obeys, May ends up in love with John, and it sounds as though the feelings were mutual.
Oh, and by the way, during this period with May oddly called "The Lost Weekend", John manages to record some fine albums (May assisting), make the charts, and start to see his old friends again (nearly meeting up with McCartney for the recording of Venus And Mars), something he didn't or couldn't or wouldn't (because of his depressive stupor/drug use/and dare I say Yoko's will) do during the preceeding period at the Dakota. "Lost Weekend?" Sounds more like "The Productive Weekend".
May was an enabling cure for what ailed Lennon at the time, mainly fear and loathing of his life at the Dakota, it would seem. He was quite busy during their time together. Yes, he got drunk and stupid, but he was suddenly let out of his repressive cage. He got drunk and stupid before and during the Beatles. He got stoned and stupid at the Dakota.
The drunkeness and stupidity are a small, but focused upon fragment of the John and May story. The fact that May continued in the music biz attests that she was at least a small catalyst for Lennon to resume his art. It is she whispering John's name on the recording "#9 Dream".
Anyway, seems the folks at JohnandYoko, Inc. have continually done their best to demean May's account of what happened when she and John were a couple. That's another point in favor of the feeling this book is true, otherwise they'd have nothing to fear.
Word is John continued to pine for May up until the end of his life. It doesn't seem unlikely, for during the time he spent with May, it seems he was allowed to be, or at least not prevented from being John Lennon.
Hats off to Ms. Pang for taking all the crap from the promoters and believers of the "official" manufactured JohnandYoko myth.
I found nothing unbelievable in or about this book. Why does it upset people so?
A question for you all - if John had had access to the internet at he time, do you believe we'd still be reading the same "Official" stories?
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