Elliot Mintz became the long-distance confidant of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Then he saw the cruel side of Lennon and picked up the pieces after the former Beatle was fatally shot.

It wasn’t a complete accident that John Lennon had an affair with May Pang. From September 1973 to 1975, the Beatles icon went on his so-called “Lost Weekend,” which involved an 18 month-long binge of sex,

John Lennon and Yoko Ono were obsessed with their weight, according to a new book by their close friend Elliot Mintz. Mintz, 79, was a Los Angeles-based radio and TV presenter who became close to the couple in the early Seventies. He has written a memoir about their time together, We All Shine On: John, Yoko & Me, which hit shelves on October 22.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono were “obsessed” with their weight during their time in the spotlight. Former Los Angeles radio and TV announcer Elliot Mintz, who was close friends with Lennon and Ono, claimed how they were “obsessed with staying skinny” in his memoir “We All Shine On: John,