When sex get you in trouble. Alcohol was limited in their apartment because John would behave irrationally. But at one particular party in 1973 there was no restriction on drugs and booze. By Ray Connolly - To read the full article click here.
One night in New York, John Lennon got very drunk at a party, took a girl into a room and had sex with her.
Unfortunately, all the guests’ coats 
had been heaped on the bed. So when people wanted to go home, they couldn’t retrieve them — and everyone, including his wife, Yoko Ono, realised what was going on.
That, in a nutshell, was what Yoko told me some time later. ‘It was,’ she said, ‘very embarrassing.’
Of course, ‘embarrassing’ isn’t the word most wives would have chosen to describe the situation. But most wives aren’t Yoko.
She’d long known that when John got drunk, he’d behave irrationally and could sometimes be violent, and for this reason she always limited the amount of alcohol in their apartment.
But, on that particular night in 1973, there’d be no limit on drinks and drugs.
Other party guests said that they’d tried to calm John down, that he was blabbering and shouting and pushing them away before he disappeared into the bedroom with his conquest.
'John can be very hard to live with sometimes.’ Yoko says 'The day after the party, he was full of remorse. But a line had been crossed.'A couple of years later, after John’s adultery on a pile of coats, she was finding him more difficult to manage.
Perhaps he should go out with other women, Yoko suggested; if that was what he wanted, she’d understand. John, however, felt that he just needed to get away.
But he couldn’t go alone; he always had to have someone at his side. So Yoko suggested he take May Pang, a pretty young woman who worked for them at the Dakota. John liked her, Yoko pointed out.
‘Listen, May,’ said Yoko. ‘John and I are not getting along. John will probably start going out with other people. Who knows who he will go out with? I know he likes you a lot. So . . ?’
