John Lennon and Yoko Ono were obsessed with their weight, according to a new book by their close friend Elliot Mintz. Mintz, 79, was a Los Angeles-based radio and TV presenter who became close to the couple in the early Seventies. He has written a memoir about their time together, We All Shine On: John, Yoko & Me, which hit shelves on October 22.

It wasn’t a complete accident that John Lennon had an affair with May Pang. From September 1973 to 1975, the Beatles icon went on his so-called “Lost Weekend,” which involved an 18 month-long binge of sex,