McCartney Times

One summer day in 1973, Yoko Ono walked into the office of 22-year-old May Pang, Ono and John Lennon’s personal assistant. Upon entering, Ono said, “May, I need to talk to you. John and I are not getting along very well right now. He’s going to start dating other people. I know you’re single, and I know that you’re not [pursuing] John, but you need a boyfriend and I think you’d be good for him.” Pang grew up in Harlem and was the daughter of Chinese immigrants who owned a laundry. At just 19 years old, she started working at Apple Records, a record label founded in 1968 as a division of Apple Corps, the conglomerate that combined the Beatles’ personal and artistic interests. Shortly thereafter, she began to dedicate her work exclusively to the couple; she was essentially on call for them 24 hours a day: “A normal day consisted of making them coffee, opening the mail and phoning Andy Warhol or Jackie Onassis. Every day was a surprise,” she revealed in an interview. Pang was stunned at Ono’s proposal: “Are you kidding? I can’t do that, he’s my employer, he’s my boss. He’s your husband.”

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