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Jun 27, 2023 · Perhaps McCartney and the rest of the band included "Jesus" in their session to make up for John Lennon's comments in a March 1966 interview with the London Evening Standard, in which he said "We're more popular than Jesus now," via Britannica. While the comment didn't make a stir when the article came out, later that summer when it was reprinted in an American magazine, Lennon received a lot ...
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In March 1966, London’s Evening Standard ran a weekly series titled “How Does a Beatle Live?” that featured John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Paul McCartney. The articles were written by Maureen Cleave, who knew the group well and had interviewed them regularly since the start of Beatlemania in the United Kingdom.
Dec 26, 2021 · The band themselves remained calm among the hysterics, Paul McCartney explained to biographer Barry Miles: “I must admit we didn’t really take it too seriously at all. We just thought, ‘Yes, well, you can see what it is. It’s hysterical low-grade American thinking.'”
The religious views of the English rock band the Beatles evolved over time and differed among members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Although all four Beatles were associated with either Protestantism or Roman Catholicism in their childhood, they had all abandoned their religious upbringings by 1964.
Jul 29, 2021 · The session in question was for the Paul McCartney-penned track, ‘Fixing A Hole’. The song featured on the band’s landmark LP Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and has been revered as one of the usually affable Macca’s more controversial pieces.
Nov 5, 2021 · Paul McCartney remembers backlash against ‘more popular than Jesus’ In 1966 there wasn’t a chance to explain what Lennon really meant by ‘more popular than Jesus.’
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May 22, 2017 · Read the story of how Paul McCartney ... Read the story of how Paul McCartney brought a man claiming to be Jesus to the studio when the Beatles recorded "Fixing a Hole." ... I said, ‘Well, you ...
