 While visiting Mick Jagger in Montauk , New York ( the eastern tip of Long Island ) , Lennon and Pang saw a Scottish @-@ style cottage for sale close to the Montauk Point Lighthouse . Lennon asked a real estate broker to put in an offer for it in February 1975 . Lennon and Pang were also planning on visiting Paul and Linda McCartney in New Orleans in February 1975 , where Wings were recording the Venus and Mars album , but Lennon reconciled with Ono the day before the planned visit , after Ono said she had a new cure for Lennon 's smoking habit . 
