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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 claimed 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.
In March 1966, Lennon remarked to a journalist from the Evening Standard that the Beatles had become "more popular than Jesus". The comment went unnoticed until, in August of the same year, the American magazine Datebook republished it, inciting protests against the Beatles. The band was threatened, their records were publicly burned, and some ...
The Beatles arriving for concerts in Madrid, July 1965. From 1961 to 1966, the English rock band the Beatles performed all over the Western world. They began performing live as The Beatles on 15 August 1960 at The Jacaranda in Liverpool and continued in various clubs during their visit to Hamburg, West Germany, until 1962, with a line-up of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart ...
Larger Than Life: Reign of the Boybands, a new documentary from Paramount+, looks at the evolution of the magical male music groupings, ranging from the Beatles and the Jackson 5 to One Direction ...
From the early days of pop music to the modern era of K-pop, hip-hop, and more, Larger Than Life: Reign of the Boybands includes interviews with everyone from Donny Osmond to Lance Bass to Nick ...
John Winston Ono Lennon [nb 1] (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer-songwriter, musician and political activist.He gained worldwide fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.
The subject of Beatles ’64 — the new documentary produced by Martin Scorsese that debuts Nov. 29 on Disney+ — is a familiar one: the Fab Four’s arrival in the United States on Feb. 7, 1964 ...
They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles (1982, Whaam! Records) The Painted Word (1984, Illuminated Records) Privilege (1989, Fire Records) Closer to God (1992, Fire Records) I Was a Mod Before You Was a Mod (1995, Overground Records) Don't Cry Baby, It's Only a Movie (1998, Damaged Goods Records) My Dark Places (2006, Domino)