Pang did some work for them, and occasionally saw Lennon surreptitiously, but the relationship was over. She worked for Island Records, promoting Bob Marley, and then in music publishing. Pang had earlier met her future husband, the record producer Tony Visconti They had two children. Pang is now single again.John Lennon was killed in December 1980, possibly because he wasn’t surrounded by bodyguards “John never liked that. The two of you as solo performers are good, but together you can’t be beaten.

We thought of going to New Orleans to see Paul and Linda, who were making Venus and Mars there.”But Lennon did collaborate with David Bowie, and in an unexpected way. “John had heard a disco hit he liked – ‘Shame Shame Shame’ by Shirley and Company – and he couldn’t get the riff out of his head. We were visiting Bowie when he was recording [Lennon's song] ‘Across the Universe’ and John was talking to the guitarist Carlos Alomar about the riff. They went into the lounge area of the studio and were fooling around with it.

Bowie walked in and said, ‘What are you guys doing?’”He felt left out. He said, ‘Do you have any words for it yet?’ John said, ‘No.’ He went off and 20 minutes later, he came back with ‘Fame’ and it turned out to be a wonderful record.”Lennon and Pang returned to New York, and would regularly see Ono Around March 1975, John and Yoko reunited. It was lovely.”Lennon and Paul McCartney had been sounding-boards for each other’s ideas, and Lennon missed that. Pang says: “He was always saying, ‘I wonder what Paul is doing.’ When John and I were together, and this is about a week or two before our relationship ended, I remember him saying, ‘Do you think I should write with Paul again?’ I said, ‘Absolutely You should because you want to. Pang recalls: “The first song written for that album was ‘Surprise Surprise’.