GUILDERLAND – Long before the world became obsessed with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, there was another great love affair involving one of the best known rock & roll stars that also captured the country’s imagination.

His name is John Lennon. Even though Lennon’s lover’s name wasn’t a household name, May Pang has an interesting story to tell.

The Beatles, it has been said, were denizens of the great musical adventure of the 20th century. When those four lads from Liverpool reached the end of their long and winding road, a new era began.

May Pang had a front row seat to what happened next.

“There are some things I do regret,” Pang said. “Not my time with him. The fact that there were certain things I didn’t say that maybe should have been said, and I didn’t,” she said.

It was the early 1970s. The Beatles had already broken up. John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were in the process of breaking up.

It was during that time period when Pang, 23, who was working for the famous couple says Yoko encouraged her to begin her own relationship with Lennon.

“She insisted,” Pang recalled. “She came into my office and told me this proposal and I looked at her and I thought, are you crazy? I’m not interested.”

Eventually Pang and Lennon did hook up. The romance blossomed into an 18-month-long love affair that became known as the Lost Weekend.

“I didn’t even think it was going to happen,” Pang said.

During their time together, Pang documented the relationship in pictures, including one taken in Ellenville, New York while the couple was vacationing in the Catskills. Pang said the photo of Lennon in a knit Irish sweater was his favorite.

There were also photos of Lennon with his son, Julian.

There was an historic photo taken at Disney World in December 1974 entitled “The Dream is Over,” which captures Lennon, pen in hand, signing the legal document that dissolved the Beatles.

There is a picture of Lennon and Paul McCartney sitting on lounge chairs, believed to be the last time those famous bandmates were photographed together.

“Everybody thought (John) was a down-and-out drunk, on drugs all the time,” Pang suggested. “He wasn’t and so when you see the pictures you see a different side of John, the John that I saw that not everybody got a chance to see.”

One of the reasons Pang wanted to release the photos to the public was to “correct the history record.”

Pang is now crisscrossing the country with her traveling exhibit, “The Lost Weekend: The Photography of May Pang.”

The photos are on display at Artforms Gallery, 2050 Western Avenue in Guilderland June 25 and 26, from 3:00 p.m. until 8 p.m.

May Pang will be there to share stories of her love affair.

If you’d like to learn more about the Lost Weekend, Pang’s documentary is available on Amazon Prime.