I don't have the book with me, so I can't check, but I dimly recall a scene in Keith Richards's memoirs that would support your theory about Yoko being the one to want to stop first - in the scene in question, John is having a bad trip and throwing up in Keith's restroom, and Yoko (not tripping) is making apologies.
Re: trying to keep John alive - part of the reason for the May Pang arrangement, I think, though both women quickly realised that while John didn't do heavy drugs while with May, there was no stopping him from drinking far too much, and that scene where May is reduced to calling Yoko after John trashed the hotel room and her necklace was as good an illustration as any. Which makes me guess your estimation is right - John knew he needed a gatekeeper to survive (by the mid 70s, the bodies of the rock scene were piling up), and that Yoko could be it while May could not.
Of course, there IS the Albert Goldmann allegation they both were on heroin again in 1980, and that this was why John had lost so much weight etc.
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Date: 2016-10-10 03:48 pm (UTC)Re: trying to keep John alive - part of the reason for the May Pang arrangement, I think, though both women quickly realised that while John didn't do heavy drugs while with May, there was no stopping him from drinking far too much, and that scene where May is reduced to calling Yoko after John trashed the hotel room and her necklace was as good an illustration as any. Which makes me guess your estimation is right - John knew he needed a gatekeeper to survive (by the mid 70s, the bodies of the rock scene were piling up), and that Yoko could be it while May could not.
Of course, there IS the Albert Goldmann allegation they both were on heroin again in 1980, and that this was why John had lost so much weight etc.