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More popular than Jesus" [nb 1] is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview, in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus, and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music.
"Jesus Christ" is a song written in 1940 by Woody Guthrie. The song tells in eight verses what Jesus preached in his time, especially about the rich and the poor, and that he was killed by different groups who rejected his preaching ("they laid Jesus Christ in his grave").
The prime member, the Cross, had been introduced to Christian art in the 4th century as the crux invicta, a symbol of victory.As a group they have a long tradition in iconography, dating back to the 9th century; the Utrecht Psalter of 830 is an example, though the only one from the Early Middle Ages known to Gertrud Schiller.
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Kris Kristofferson in 1972, the first recording of the song, on his album Jesus Was a Capricorn and subsequently released as the B-side to the single "Why Me". Ray Price, on his 1973 album She's Got to Be a Saint. Connie Smith, on her 1973 album God Is Abundant. Johnny Cash, on his 1973 album The Gospel Road.
By contrast, the electric guitar Jimi Hendrix played at the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair was sold in 1990 to Italian collector Richard Pugliese for $324,000, equivalent to $793,446 in 2024.
King of Kings (also referred to as Touchdown Jesus) was a 62-foot (19 m) tall statue of Jesus on the east side of Interstate 75 at the Solid Rock Church, a 4000+ member Christian megachurch near Monroe, Ohio, in the United States. It was destroyed by a lightning strike and subsequent fire on June 14, 2010.
First Love: A Historic Gathering of Jesus Music Pioneers is a 2004 concert film and documentary that looks back into the Jesus Music of the 1970s. In 1997, a group of Jesus Music pioneers gathered in southern California for three days of music and fellowship. [1] The event was both recorded and filmed, and was released in a 2-CD/2-DVD set ...