Bizarre Beatles history: Yoko Ono asked me to sleep with John Lennon. But then we fell in love
Young, hip and working for a New York record company, she was already living the dream. But when May Pang was asked to become personal assistant to John Lennon and his second wife Yoko, the pretty 21-year-old couldn't believe her luck.
It was 1971. May, a lifelong Beatles fan, threw herself into her new role, diligently managing the couple's office and revelling in more interesting assignments, such as supervising wardrobe for the couple's music video Imagine.
She also found herself in bizarre situations, usually at the behest of the eccentric Yoko — like the time she had to capture hundreds of live flies for one of the Japanese-born activist's avant-garde films, or when she sat inside a black sack on a U.S. chat show as a stunt while Lennon and Yoko spoke earnestly about racism beside her.
Rather more disturbing requests came her way, too. Yoko showed her assistant sketches she'd made of a dress that would expose the breasts and vagina and told the startled May that she would be expected to model it. Thankfully for May, that moment never came to pass.
Source: Barbara Mcmahon/dailymail.co.uk
