May Pang on the radio in San Francisco
by Katie Hickox, What Goes On Special Correspondant
Remember May Pang?
May Pang was the young woman that Yoko Ono "approved" to be John Lennon's lover for the "Lost Weekend" back in the early seventies. However, May ended up being with John Lennon for nearly 18 months and they had been living together in their own apartment in New York City for nearly a year before John went back to Yoko. May wrote the book "Loving John" which is now out of print to set the record straight that her time with John was not just a brief "Lost Weekend".
Well, May Pang is going to be interviewed on Tuesday, March 1st on the Greg Kihn morning show he hosts 6AM to 10AM on FM 98.5 in San Jose/Silicon Valley/San Francisco. If the name Greg Kihn sounds familiar, it's because he also is part of "The Greg Kihn Band" that has been famous for such hits as Jeopardy, Testify, Love and Rock and Roll, Remember, and Thunder Road.
Greg will be asking May questions we all have wanted to know like:
Why did John get back together with Yoko after living with May for nearly 18 months?
Why did Yoko blacklist May in the music business after John got back together with Yoko (after all Yoko won)?
When was the last time May saw John?
What John Lennon songs did May sing background vocals for?
Tune into the Greg Kihn morning show he hosts 6AM to 10AM on FM 98.5 in San Jose/Silicon Valley/San Francisco on Tuesday, March 1st to find out the answers!
Full Version: May talk
More importantly, Scruff... How could you have forgotten Greg Kihn's "The Break Up Song"? Its what got him noticed in the first place. "The Break Up Song" is also one of the best, however under rated, power pop songs ever!!!
You may have forgotten which side of the Atlantic I'm on. I've never heard of Greg Kihn. I do recall reading about Rumplestiltskihn - didn't he have a hit with "Almost Cut My Hair" 
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QUOTE(viper @ Feb 28 2005, 01:35 AM)
More importantly, Scruff... How could you have forgotten Greg Kihn's "The Break Up Song"? Its what got him noticed in the first place. "The Break Up Song" is also one of the best, however under rated, power pop songs ever!!!
Yea, I like it, too. Also, from the first time I heard it, I thought the "No!" vocal towards the song's end sounds like John.
I like the Greg Kihn Band - they produced some fine rock 'n' roll albums (IMO).
May Pang says Yoko didn't get along with Julian
By Katie Hickox, What Goes On Special Correspondent
May Pang, the young woman that Yoko Ono "approved" to be John Lennon's lover for the "Lost Weekend" back in the early seventies, was interviewed on Tuesday on the Greg Kihn morning show on KFOX 98.5 in San Francisco. Here are some highlights from the show.
May talked about how Yoko didn't want Julian around because "Yoko just didn't get along with Julian". May made it possible for Julian to see his Dad, John Lennon for the first time in the US when she was living with John in Los Angeles. May also made staying in touch with Julian a priority for John by having him call Julian at least once a week.
May said she listened coincidentally to many of the same rock n roll "B sides" growing up that John also listened to and was influenced by so they shared a common interest in music despite a 10 year age difference.
May spoke about John's songwriting style which was such that he would dream of the words or song in his sleep and wake up in the middle of the night and write down the words on pad of paper and black felt marker pen he would keep at the side of his bed before falling back to sleep. If he didn't wake up and write it down, he wouldn't remember anything in the morning. The words "Ah! böwakawa pousse, pousse" from the song #9 Dream on John Lennons' "Walls and Bridges" are not real words but just words from a dream. May is the female vocalist who says "John" over and over again in this song.
The same Friday night that Yoko setup the stop smoking hypnosis session with John at the Dakota without May, May said that John had planned on traveling down to New Orleans that weekend to join up with Paul McCartney and possibly start writing some songs with him for his upcoming album, 'Venus and Mars' that Paul was making in New Orleans. But alas, John's so-called one hour "stop smoking hypnosis session" turned into a long drawn out all weekend marathon session from which he never returned back to May or to his old life. May guesses that Yoko may have had John drugged, hypnotized and/or put into a trance. During the so-called hypnosis session, May believes that John was told to break off with May and everything in his past so he could be with Yoko and was told that Yoko was his "mother" who knows what is best for John. Several days later May finally ran into John at the dentist's office and John looked like he hadn't slept in days and appeared "zombie like" and had difficulty talking. Then a few months later, May found out that John has made a complete break with his past by no longer seeing anyone from his past except for Yoko. This break with the past also includes breaking off from his music which is symbolized by hanging a Civil War Dagger along with his guitar on a wall.
May remembered that Before John got back together with Yoko, he was planning on buying a house that he and May were to live in and that John had picked out. May said she lived with John for 14 months out of the 18 months that she was with John.
If you missed Tuesday morning's Greg Kihn's radio interview with May Pang on KFOX FM98.5, you can still hear some of this interview with May as Greg will continue to play highlights over the next few weeks during his morning show, Mondays thru Friday, from 6am to 10am.
By Katie Hickox, What Goes On Special Correspondent
May Pang, the young woman that Yoko Ono "approved" to be John Lennon's lover for the "Lost Weekend" back in the early seventies, was interviewed on Tuesday on the Greg Kihn morning show on KFOX 98.5 in San Francisco. Here are some highlights from the show.
May talked about how Yoko didn't want Julian around because "Yoko just didn't get along with Julian". May made it possible for Julian to see his Dad, John Lennon for the first time in the US when she was living with John in Los Angeles. May also made staying in touch with Julian a priority for John by having him call Julian at least once a week.
May said she listened coincidentally to many of the same rock n roll "B sides" growing up that John also listened to and was influenced by so they shared a common interest in music despite a 10 year age difference.
May spoke about John's songwriting style which was such that he would dream of the words or song in his sleep and wake up in the middle of the night and write down the words on pad of paper and black felt marker pen he would keep at the side of his bed before falling back to sleep. If he didn't wake up and write it down, he wouldn't remember anything in the morning. The words "Ah! böwakawa pousse, pousse" from the song #9 Dream on John Lennons' "Walls and Bridges" are not real words but just words from a dream. May is the female vocalist who says "John" over and over again in this song.
The same Friday night that Yoko setup the stop smoking hypnosis session with John at the Dakota without May, May said that John had planned on traveling down to New Orleans that weekend to join up with Paul McCartney and possibly start writing some songs with him for his upcoming album, 'Venus and Mars' that Paul was making in New Orleans. But alas, John's so-called one hour "stop smoking hypnosis session" turned into a long drawn out all weekend marathon session from which he never returned back to May or to his old life. May guesses that Yoko may have had John drugged, hypnotized and/or put into a trance. During the so-called hypnosis session, May believes that John was told to break off with May and everything in his past so he could be with Yoko and was told that Yoko was his "mother" who knows what is best for John. Several days later May finally ran into John at the dentist's office and John looked like he hadn't slept in days and appeared "zombie like" and had difficulty talking. Then a few months later, May found out that John has made a complete break with his past by no longer seeing anyone from his past except for Yoko. This break with the past also includes breaking off from his music which is symbolized by hanging a Civil War Dagger along with his guitar on a wall.
May remembered that Before John got back together with Yoko, he was planning on buying a house that he and May were to live in and that John had picked out. May said she lived with John for 14 months out of the 18 months that she was with John.
If you missed Tuesday morning's Greg Kihn's radio interview with May Pang on KFOX FM98.5, you can still hear some of this interview with May as Greg will continue to play highlights over the next few weeks during his morning show, Mondays thru Friday, from 6am to 10am.
Hmmmmm... strange days indeed!
It may just be the cynic in me, but it sure sounds like some of this is just a bit too far out to be true.
I dunno, though. What do you all think?
It may just be the cynic in me, but it sure sounds like some of this is just a bit too far out to be true.
I dunno, though. What do you all think?
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