I was watching this thing on History channel called "Hippies", and I think I heard that.
2007-06-16 14:03:27 · 14 answers · asked by jollyrancha243 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
roflmfao. no.
2007-06-16 14:16:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the 2 remaining band members can answer that one for you. I doubt highly that any one of us was there at the time. John had a great sense of humour, or so I've heard. If he actually did this, ya gotta know he was just goofin' around. He did get lambasted by the public for having made the error of laughing off their popularity by saying the Beatles were more popular than Christ. He was poking a finger at the Beatlemania going on around them but some people took it too seriously. Caused an international clamour at the time, which is when their popularity went into decline.
2007-06-16 14:12:58 · answer #2 · answered by OP 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. This is the apocryphal story, which everybody denied:
His boyhood friend Pete Shotton told of a meeting John called in May 1968 to tell Paul, George, and Ringo that he was Jesus Christ reincarnated. He wanted an authorized statement to that effect put out. Apple’s press officer Derek Taylor, who was also present, listened attentively but wisely ignored the plea, knowing that the drugs would soon wear off and this new Jesus would go back to being John.
2007-06-16 14:05:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Being an old guy, lol, this is what was said. During a televised interview on CBS, Lennon said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. That was pretty much the end of it, and he did apologize at a later time. Not that HE was Jesus but that the Beatles were more popular.
2007-06-16 14:24:28 · answer #4 · answered by I see dumb people 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I grew up in the " Hippie " days .The news media and the religious right were trying to discredit Rock and roll as the " Devils Music "
All John did was say that more of today's ( the 60`s} youth go to Beatles concerts than go to church .The Beatles are more popular than god .
You know ,That statement was dead on .
2007-06-16 14:09:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lennon was Jesus!
They both got murdered for being peaceful anyway.
2007-06-16 14:07:03 · answer #6 · answered by Fat Boy 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
no, it was a quote given in an iterview that was taken out of context. And it was that the beatles were bigger than jesus. A misquote.
2007-06-16 14:06:40 · answer #7 · answered by jenni k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
John Lennon wasn't religious at all, hell the song "Imagine" was all about a secular communist government. "...Imagine no heaven, no Hell below us..." I doubt that he would make such a blasphemous remark. Lennon was all about peace. He wouldn't make such an antagonizing remark.
2007-06-16 14:07:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not that I know of and I grew up hearing constantly about the Beatles.
2007-06-16 14:06:33 · answer #9 · answered by Jess 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it sounds like the sort of thing that might happen during an acid trip....
2007-06-18 11:13:12 · answer #10 · answered by Skepticat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hasn't everybody?
2007-06-16 14:18:00 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋