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               The Beatles is the best band of the world history. They are the only group in        recording history to have twenty songs reach number one on hit parade.
                What a pity they startled with their success, turned too proud and said:             "We are more popular than JESUS CHRIST.
Christianism will go down and the rock will go up..."
And GOD ordered the end of the band...

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John Lennon proclaims Beatles "More popular than Jesus" (March 4, 1966)     by News of the Odd Today in Odd History, The Evening Standard published a long, rambling interview with John Lennon in which he proclaimed that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus". Although there was little reaction to his statement in England, Christians elsewhere embarked upon a massive campaign to destroy Beatles albums and other paraphenalia. Lennon apologized for the remark later, and the Archbishop of Boston admitted that he was probably right, but many people still refused to forgive him. In its original context, the remark was part of a rather harmless lifestyle piece by Evening Standard reporter Maureen Cleave. She had spent the day Lennon, whom she described as "imperious, ... unpredictable, indolent, disorganised, childish, vague, charming and quick-witted." He took her on a tour of his mansion, talking about books and fame, and the gorilla suit he bought so he could drive around wearing it. When they reached the subject of religion, Lennon said, "Christianity will go. It will shrink and vanish. ...(Vai encolher e desaparecer). I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

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