Editing Yoko Ono (section)

====Separation and reconciliation====
[[File:1 West 72nd Street (The Dakota) by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|right|[[The Dakota]], Ono's residence from 1973 to 2023]]After the Beatles disbanded in 1970, Ono and Lennon lived together in London and then moved permanently to Manhattan to escape tabloid racism towards Ono.<ref name="TA">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/feb/02/john-lennon-radical-left-tariq-ali|title=John Lennon's power for the people|date=February 2, 2010|last=Ali|first=Tariq|newspaper=The Guardian|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109115346/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/feb/02/john-lennon-radical-left-tariq-ali|archive-date=January 9, 2017}}</ref> Their relationship became strained because Lennon was facing deportation due to drug charges that had been filed against him in England, and because of Ono's separation from her daughter. The couple separated in July 1973, with Ono pursuing her career and Lennon living between Los Angeles and New York with personal assistant [[May Pang]]; Ono had given her blessing to Lennon and Pang's relationship.<ref name="Separation">{{cite book|first=Geoffrey Giuliano|last=Brenda Giuliano|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kVpXvJn0ZZIC&q=%22may+pang%22&pg=RA2-PA260|title=Press Release Interview with May Pang|access-date=June 9, 2011|isbn=978-0-7119-6470-9|year=1998|publisher=Omnibus Press |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101162507/http://books.google.com/books?id=kVpXvJn0ZZIC&pg=RA2-PA260&vq=Pang&dq=%22may+pang%22#PRA2-PA213,M1|archive-date=January 1, 2014}}</ref>{{sfn|Harry|2001|p=698-99}}

By December 1974, Lennon and Pang considered buying a house together, and he refused to accept Ono's phone calls. The next month, Lennon agreed to meet Ono, who claimed to have found a cure for smoking. After the meeting, Lennon failed to return home or call Pang. When she telephoned the next day, Ono told her Lennon was unavailable, because he was exhausted after a hypnotherapy session. Two days later, Lennon reappeared at a joint dental appointment with Pang; he was stupefied and confused to such an extent that Pang believed he had been brainwashed. He told her his separation from Ono was now over, though Ono would allow him to continue seeing her as his mistress, which did not happen.{{sfn|Harry|2001|p=700-01}}

Ono and Lennon's son, [[Sean Lennon|Sean]], was born on October 9, 1975, Lennon's 35th birthday. Following the birth of Sean, both Lennon and Ono took a hiatus from the music industry, with Lennon becoming a [[SAHD|stay-at-home dad]] to care for his infant son. Sean has followed in his parents' footsteps with a career in music; he performs solo work, works with Ono and formed bands as, [[The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger]] and [[The Claypool Lennon Delirium]].<ref>{{cite web |last=H |first=Erika |title=Sean Ono Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl to release debut as Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger; win award for worst band name since Dogs Die in Hot Cars |url=http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/sean-ono-lennon-and-charlotte-kemp-muhl-release-debut-ghost-saber-tooth-tiger-win-award-worst-b |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100731134037/http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/sean-ono-lennon-and-charlotte-kemp-muhl-release-debut-ghost-saber-tooth-tiger-win-award-worst-b |archive-date=July 31, 2010 |access-date=September 28, 2011 |publisher=tinymixtapes.com}}</ref>