• "More popular than Jesus" 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...
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  • 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...
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    and public statements, such as his remark about the band being "more popular than Jesus" and the lyrics of two of his later songs "God" and "Imagine"....
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    year later, Lennon controversially remarked that the band were "more popular than Jesus now". The Beatles often incorporated classical elements, traditional...
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    John Lennon controversially remarked that the group had become "more popular than Jesus". Soon afterwards, when the Beatles toured Japan, the Philippines...
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  • Beatles member John Lennon proclaiming The Beatles were "bigger (more popular) than Jesus Christ". Subsequent releases have included both the entire Seasoning...
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    afterwards, the band members visited India for the first time. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first – rock 'n' roll or Christianity...
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  • Lennon's lifestyle, alongside his 1966 comment that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus". Chapman said he was inspired by the fictional character Holden...
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  • the controversy of John Lennon's remark about the Beatles being "more popular than Jesus", death threats, and the band's own dissatisfaction with the noise...
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  • Submarine" coincided with the controversies surrounding Lennon's "More popular than Jesus" remarks – which led some radio stations to impose a ban on the...
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  • controversy surrounding John Lennon's remark that the band had become "more popular than Jesus". The album topped the Record Retailer chart in the UK for seven...
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    distinguishing Jesus from other figures shown around him, which the use of a cruciform halo also achieves. Earlier images were much more varied. Images of Jesus tend...
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  • Bigger than Jesus is a misquote by Mick Jagger of a saying by John Lennon, see "More popular than Jesus" Bigger Than Jesus: The Diary of a Rock and Roll...
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    respectively. John Lennon's highly controversial 1966 quote: "We're more popular than Jesus now", which he later insisted was not a boast, and that he was...
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    tour of the US (which was plagued with backlash due to Lennon's "more popular than Jesus" comment), the Beatles ceased performing live due to being fed...
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  • had become "more popular than Jesus", by recalling how the Chipmunks had fallen in popularity after Alvin boasted they were "bigger than Mickey Mouse"...
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  • a reference to John Lennon's 1966 remark that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Drewett, Michael (27 February 2012). "Freemuse: South Africa in...
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  • year after Lennon's controversial statement that the band was "more popular than Jesus". Outline of the Beatles The Beatles timeline Lennon had previously...
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  • the United States after Lennon remarked that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus", and the release of the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club...
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  • Waycross, Georgia, in response to John Lennon's controversial "more popular than Jesus" remark. The photograph, distributed by UPI and printed on front...
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    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...
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  • the band is 'more popular than cheeses', referring to John Lennon's famous quote proclaiming the Beatles to be more popular than Jesus. In Pseudopolis...
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  • in the London Evening Standard newspaper as saying that "We're more popular than Jesus now." In August, following publication of this remark in Datebook...
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    Lennon had been quoted by a British interviewer as saying, "We're more popular than Jesus now", and the statement had largely gone unnoticed until it was...
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  • began their last US concert tour. After the storm John Lennon's "more popular than Jesus" comment caused in the US, the group's reception was a cause for...
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  • does a Beatle live?", quoted him as saying that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus now". Five months later, on the eve of a 14-city US tour, an American...
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    Apostles refers to Jesus' early ministry and its anticipation by John the Baptist. Acts 1:1–11 says more about the Ascension of Jesus than the canonical gospels...
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  • group, the Weevils, claimed to be bigger than God (inspired by Beatle John Lennon’s “More popular than Jesus" remark), Pruitt is inspired to hold a record-burning...
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    he was responsible for shining a spotlight on John Lennon's "more popular than Jesus" quote. In the 1960s, Fields began frequenting Max's Kansas City...
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  • of a drug trip and, remembering the public's reaction at his "more popular than Jesus" statement two years before, states that he can't walk on water...
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