May Pang, who is showing her private photographs of John Lennon at a three-day exhibit at Bitfactory starting Friday, recalls her first love, how John and Paul almost started making music again and more.
, where visitors will see Lennon and Pang's adventures through her own lens, with a collection of photos she took throughout their relationship.
Pang told her friend that she was going to go to Apple and ask for a job."She says, 'You're nuts!' I said, 'What are they going to say to me? If they say no, I'm still where I am.' So I went up and got off on the 41st floor," she says. She was eighteen and landed a job at Apple Records, where she took on any and every task. In December 1970, Lennon and Ono came to the offices and enlisted Pang to assist on Ono's avant-garde films,. Pang then accompanied Lennon and Ono to London, where she saw him play “Imagine” for the first time.
Pang emphasizes that Ono was not the reason for the relationship, however; nothing would have happened if Lennon hadn’t started pursuing her, she says. She was helping him record, and the two began flirting in the studio until finally Lennon kissed her. The first time they spent the night together, she woke up to him playing a song he wrote for her:"Surprise Surprise ."and work on other projects, as well as to find solace away from Ono. But even across the country, that could be hard.
Meanwhile, Pang and Lennon were living the high life — and throughout, she snapped candid photos. Each picture in her collection has a particular whimsical mystique to it, an image of such a famous individual whose life was so microscopically documented, yet in a moment no one would otherwise know about. The couple traveled often, and on a road trip around Las Vegas, they stopped at a ghost-town roadside attraction.
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