Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gospel according to John provoked such outrage that it seemed the only atonement for the Beatles would be to tonsure their Shaggy locks and turn them into hair shirts. "We are more popular than Jesus Christ now," Beatle John Lennon had pronounced, moving scores of disk jockeys to ban their records. Now John has received some expert support. Richard Cardinal Gushing, 71, preached in Boston's Holy Cross Cathedral: "The Beatles are better known than Christianity throughout the world." His point: Missions must be strengthened in a world in which Christians are outnumbered. Was that what John meant...
...probably the most calamitous shearing since Samson's, but Beatle John Lennon, 25, was brave about it. In a quiet little operation on Lüneburger Heide, West Germany, he suffered through the unique experience of a normal haircut to prepare for his role as a British Tommy in a film called How I Won the War. When the perspiring barber had finally chopped through the thatch, Beatle aides swept up the locks and sent them off to a German teen magazine for distribution to the faithful. "It's all right," said John...
...Reports of the death of Christianity, as Beatle John Lennon discovered this month, are greatly exaggerated. So, too, are reports of the show-business death of John Lennon. The exaggeration about the Beatles, though, may not be so fanciful. By the end of last week, with only two stops left on their 14-city North American tour, the boys were grossing as grandly as ever (roughly $100,000 a night), but there were signs that it had been too hard a day's night...
...John Lennon's comments about the relative popularity of Jesus Christ and the Beatles (TIME, Aug. 12) proved less than consequential except in the South. Kids and disk jockeys built bonfires of Beatles' records and artifacts, and 20 Texas radio stations maintained a Beatle boycott. During the Beatles' only personal appearance below the Mason-Dixon line, in Memphis, a Christian Youth Rally was scheduled simultaneously. The free-admission protest exhibition drew more than 8,000 people; the Beatles (in two performances) pulled 20,128 at $5.50 a head...
...wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying," mumbled John Lennon. For a Beatle, that was an apology. John and his three shaggy sidekicks flew into Chicago to open their 18-day U.S. tour, more than a little apprehensive over their reception after the fuss kicked up by John's crack that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. "We've got to go to America to get beaten up," moaned George Harrison as they left London. Now John was trying to smooth things over. "I never meant it as a lousy irreligious thing...