On March 4,
1966 Maureen Cleave, a reporter for the London Evening Standard, interviewed
John Lennon. His comments caused a
firestorm for the band.
Cleave
wrote, “Experience has sown few seeds of doubt in him: not that his mind is
closed, but it's closed round whatever he believes at the time. ‘Christianity
will go,’ he said. ‘It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about
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.’ He is reading extensively about religion.”
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