John leans over Yoko’s shoulder and envelopes her in a protective embrace, an impossibly young Stevie Wonder perches in front of an oversized tour poster, and Twiggy gazes into the lens, her saucer-shaped eyes framed by spider’s-leg lashes.

• Iain Macmillan’s portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Instead, it was Iain Macmillan, a lesser-known Dundee photographer, whose body of work includes one of the most famous photographs ever taken – the one on the cover of the Beatles’ 1969 Abbey Road album, showing John, Paul, George and Ringo striding over a zebra crossing.

Magazine’s Lennon Lost Weekend story got lost in the retelling, says May Pang

We happened to be in Border’s the other night and bought the February Q magazine with John Lennon on the cover hyping its story “John Lennon’s Lost Weekend: The Untold Story & the Unseen Photographs.” The Lennon article is a seven-page recounting of the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll tale we’ve all heard before.We asked May Pang, author of “Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon,” and who was with Lennon during that time, what she thought of the article.”I’ve just seen the issue of Q and I was disappointed with the storyline they took,” she wrote us. “I was interviewed but they decided to go along the ’standard party line’ route and left things out. They did use my photos, which of course, do not match the written piece. John looking happy and healthy in the photos which is not depicted in the article.”I couldn’t believe they didn’t mention Julian at all despite the fact he is even in one of the photographs printed. Q obviously went with the old myths of it being ‘the lost weekend’ despite anything I told them. I found some of the Harry Nilsson contract related section wrong. John did all the talking to get the contract for Harry; Harry did a lot of drinking and not saying a word…I should know I was there. The article had a dark tone overall.”Pang also told us she had just visited the exhibit of Iain Macmillan photos in Scotland. Macmillan was the photographer of the Beatles “Abbey Road” album cover.”I just returned from Dundee, Scotland where I was invited to the preview of the Iain Macmillan photo exhibition called ‘From Dundee to Abbey Road,’ she told us. “This was very personal to me as Iain and I were still close friends up until the time he died. The gallery included two photos of me that were never seen before by the public which I so honored to be a part of. The exhibition will be running for three months.”source