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Loving John

In the early 1970s, May Pang was working in the New York music business when she was hired as an assistant to John Lennon. What began as a job grew into a close bond, and for a time she became his companion while he lived apart from Yoko Ono. This memoir follows their relationship through a restless period of recording, nightlife and shifting loyalties in the mid-1970s, which Pang looks back on with candour and affection. It also offers a close view of Lennon away from his public image, and of the people who surrounded them.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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