JOHN LENNON We're More Popular Than JESUS The Beatles Comment 1966 Old Newspaper
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Offered is an original, historic, & collectible old newspaper: THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, Raleigh, North Carolina, August 8, 1966
* John Lennon hit by the media
* The Beatles prelude to breakup
Page top of page 8 has a four column heading:
"'Beatle Burning' Set Here"
with photo. (see) This is on the controversial comment by John Lennon that
"...group is more popular than Jesus..."
.
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete in 22 pages, a few tiny binding holes along the spine, address label on the front page, generally in nice condition.
wikipedia notes:
Angry reactions flared up from Christian communities in August 1966, after John Lennon's remark that The Beatles had become "more popular than Jesus" was quoted by the American teen magazine, Datebook. Lennon originally made the remark when an English newspaper reporter, Maureen Cleave, interviewed him at home for a series of articles on the lifestyles of the four individual Beatles, to appear in the London Evening Standard. When published in the United Kingdom in March 1966, Lennon's words provoked no public reaction.
When Datebook quoted Lennon's comments five months later in August 1966, vociferous protests broke out in the southern United States. The Beatles' records were publicly burned, press conferences were cancelled and threats were made. The protest spread to other countries including Mexico, South Africa and Spain; there were anti-Beatles' demonstrations and their music was banned on radio stations. The controversy erupted on the eve of the group's US tour, and the anger and scale of the reaction led their manager, Brian Epstein, to consider cancelling the tour.
Two press conferences were held in the US, where both Epstein and then Lennon expressed their regret at words taken out of context and offense taken.
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