Chinese Whispers

John Lennon’s onetime girlfriend,MAY PANG, talks to Spencer Leigh

If a writer for a soap suggested that a boss’ wife might encourage the secretary to sleep with the boss, it might be dismissed as far-fetched.

Welcome to the mad world of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, where nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about. May Pang was the piggy in the middle and she is sitting next to me on a sofa in a Liverpool hotel. Considering her background, she seems, well, almost too normal. What is most refreshing is that she seems an honest interviewee (something that is not a given in Beatles-land) and also has no desire to magnify her own role.

May Pang is visiting the UK and, in particular, Liverpool to prepare for a launch of her feng shui jewellery. To sceptics like myself, they are simply small pieces of stainless steel worn on pendants. They display Chinese symbols or hieroglyphics and her signature.

“I grew up with feng shui,” she reveals. “It is a Chinese thing that my mother had taught me – you’ve got to clear this out, you can’t have your bed facing this way: the placement of furniture has to be right. I never saw any jewellery that would give me the energy I needed and would also look good. You can wear this range with almost anything. The one I’m wearing says ‘happiness’ and the others are for harmony, …

by Spencer Leigh
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