Maureen Cleave Lennon interview

[hislop]

http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1966.0304-beatles-john-lennon-were-more-popular-than-jesus-now-maureen-cleave.html

For those who can handle it:

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.

[Stephen X. Carter]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 17:48:04 +1000, hislop <takecar...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/db1966.0304-beatles-john-lennon-were-more-popular-than-jesus-now-maureen-cleave.html
>
>For those who can handle it:
>

I still have the original newspaper with that in! I try to avoid
handling it too many times as it's getting fragile.

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[hislop]

The article says that the problems got going when the article or parts
of it were published in a US teen magazine.

[Home Guard Chris]

On 19/07/2015 16:07, hislop wrote:
> The article says that the problems got going when the article or parts
> of it were published in a US teen magazine.

Absolutely - no-one batted an eyelid over John's interview until his
quotes were sensationalised in Datebook months after the fact. Just have
a look at the first four quotes on the front cover and try to tell me
they weren't actively attempting to bring The Beatles down a peg or two:

http://tinyurl.com/oq3w9dm

This matter is still met with relative bemusement here in the UK, and
it's seen as possibly the only time that the American press has ever
out-tabloided the scummy British tabloids, if you get my meaning.

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[BeatleEd]

Home Guard Chris <cont...@theSPAMTRAPhomeguard.info> wrote:

> Absolutely - no-one batted an eyelid over John's interview until his
> quotes were sensationalised in Datebook months after the fact. Just have
> a look at the first four quotes on the front cover and try to tell me
> they weren't actively attempting to bring The Beatles down a peg or two:

...And sell lots of magazines.

[RichL]

"Home Guard Chris" <cont...@theSPAMTRAPhomeguard.info> wrote in message
news:d11ufu...@mid.individual.net...

> On 19/07/2015 16:07, hislop wrote:
>> The article says that the problems got going when the article or parts
>> of it were published in a US teen magazine.
>
> Absolutely - no-one batted an eyelid over John's interview until his
> quotes were sensationalised in Datebook months after the fact. Just have a
> look at the first four quotes on the front cover and try to tell me they
> weren't actively attempting to bring The Beatles down a peg or two:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/oq3w9dm
>
> This matter is still met with relative bemusement here in the UK, and it's
> seen as possibly the only time that the American press has ever
> out-tabloided the scummy British tabloids, if you get my meaning.

I would venture to say that it was met with relative bemusement in most of
the US as well.

[Marcus]

My experience with that incident was reading the huge headline in the Daily News "Beatles To Cancel Tour". My sister, some friends, and I had tickets to the Shea Stadium concert (the 2nd one in as many years) and we were quite fearful that we wouldn't get to se The Beatles because of the rumored tour cancellation which was based on Lennon's "Jesus statement".

Thankfully, the tour went on as scheduled.