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John Lennon and Yoko Ono<\/a>\u2018s relationship is not measurable by normal standards. <\/p>\n They met at a point when he was the most famous person in the world, or perhaps more accurately, the most famous person in history\u2026 and he was little more than a boy. They quickly fell in love, but everything unfurled in the public eye, casting their existence into an unprecedented realm of scrutiny and scandal.<\/p>\n Nothing was straightforward for the pair. Even Lennon\u2019s widely documented Lost Weekend days, when he fled the relationship with his assistant, were far from a typical tryst. If you ask May Pang<\/a>, she\u2019ll tell you there was always tenderness at the heart of their galavanting days, right from the beginning. <\/p>\n \u201cListen May, John and I are not getting along. We\u2019ve been arguing. We\u2019re growing apart,\u201d her book, Loving John, startlingly opens, documenting a discussion between the young PA and Yoko Ono. Contrary to all conventional imaginings, according to Pang, the whole thing was largely started, orchestrated, and terminated by the Japanese artist.<\/p>\n The cracks had begun to show in a damning public display a few months prior to this supposed chat in 1972. Lennon and Yoko were at a party at Jerry Rubin\u2019s (the American anti-war activist) apartment in New York. The premise was an election watch-along, but alcohol soon began to take over. <\/p>\n This became particularly apparent when it became clear that Richard Nixon \u2013 a candidate that Lennon loathed \u2013 was about to win. The intoxication escalated from there. In fairness, Lennon was right to be wary. Unsealed documents years later would prove that Nixon was actively plotting to have the former Beatle deported during his tenure on a drummed-up charge.<\/p>\n However, this can serve as little excuse for his reprehensible behaviour that night, even if his relationship was decidedly unique and stresses were abounding. While the party was still in full swing and his wife was chatting to the fellow guests, a drunken Lennon slunk away from the crowd to a bedroom with another party guest, where they began loudly having sex.<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n The couple\u2019s friend, Elliot Mintz (Lennon and Yoko\u2019s publicist at the time), was also at the party and he recalled in his memoir, We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me, the crushing events of that sad night. Mintz had witnessed Lennon rather unsubtly abscond with the unnamed party guest. But he didn\u2019t expect what followed to be quite so bold. <\/p>\n \u201dThey proceeded to have such loud, raucous sex that everyone sitting around the TV in Jerry Rubin\u2019s living room \u2013 including Yoko \u2013 could clearly hear them going at it,\u201d Mintz unfortunately recalled.<\/p>\n It was loud, unmistakable and shameful. Worse still, it was inescapable. Lennon had chosen the room where all the guest\u2019s coats were being stored. So, everyone was trapped in the living room, listening. \u201cThroughout it all, Yoko sat on the sofa, in stunned, mortified silence, as other guests began awkwardly getting up to leave,\u201d Mintz added. They soon realised they couldn\u2019t, because their keys were being held hostage at the scene of the toe-curling crime.<\/p>\n Their only hope was to drown it out. What song do you turn to in such a moment? What track could possibly mask the unspooling, awkward shame? And be long enough to guarantee that it masked it in its entirety? Well, one guest, clutching at straws, decided to play Bob Dylan\u2019s classic \u2018Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands\u2019. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/John-Lennon-_-Yoko-Ono-_-New-York-_-1980.jpg\")
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