I haven’t been this excited for a Beatle-related book to come out in a really long time. It’s by May Pang, the former girlfriend of John Lenon. I was meeting with a friend last night, and we have a plan for this book. We are going to get it together (I know it sounds a little dorky), and then have a viewing party. We are going to play our Walls and Bridges bootlegs, and then follow them up with our Rock’n Roll session outtakes.

It’s going to be a Lost Weekend Party. We really should run tape as we comment on the book as we look through it for the first time. The play-by-play will be intense and hillarious. The depths of my Beatle-nerdom have never gone this far. In my estimation, though this book will be a nothing short of a brilliant treasure trove of new material. A feast for the eyes.

We are not getting a glossed-over, sugar coated version of a story. We are get archived evidence from someone who was there. Such stories and photos like these are rare in this day and age. It’s a rare treat to get such new Lennon material to pour over.

The last true glimpse into Lennon we got, that was totally new came from another woman in is life, Cynthia. But I’d have to argue that May Pang may have written one of the best books on John a few years earlier, in the form of Loving John. This new book, Instamatic Karma, looks like it will be the pictorial record of her time with John, though, and be nothing short of astounding.

Once my friend and I get a chance to sit down with this work, we’ll post our review, but for now, our friend, and resident NY Times Beatle expert Allan Kozinn will have to do the talking for us. It’s a great article.

Here is what we have have read in regard to May Pang

“If there’s one thing that May Pang has been fighting for the last 28 years, it’s the idea that John Lennon was depressed, isolated and out of control during the 18 months she lived with him, from the summer of 1973 to early 1975, when he reconciled with his second wife, Yoko Ono.”

Source: By I Read The News Today