It was just five years before John was shot dead in 1980Danny Gutmann06:00, 12 Jul 2026John Lennon's girlfriend during his 'Lost weekend' years sat down with the ECHO to talk about how he toyed with a Paul McCartney reunion in the mids 70s and how it was Yoko Ono herself who suggested she get together with the former Beatles, when her own relationship with him was on the rocks.‌May Pang, now 75, came into the orbit of John Lennon when she worked for American record label ABKCO Industries as a production coordinator and assistant for John and his then partner, Yoko Ono.‌After John and Yoko's relationship came to an end in 1973, May went on to have an 18 month long relationship with the singer, during what Beatles fans call The Lost Weekend.‌The Beatles had officially parted ways in 1970 and