Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beatles are a cheeky crew. They constantly muse over the inevitability of what they call "The Downfall"-the end of the public's affair with them. And they always have a chuckle or two over the way all the pussycats lionize them. Beatle John Lennon, in fact, once said: "We sort of half hope for The Downfall-a nice downfall...
Somehow, readers of the British story and of the few U.S. papers carrying it ignored Lennon's foray into theology; but last week, after the quote was reprinted in the U.S. teen magazine Datebook, all hellfire broke loose. Manager Tommy Charles of WAQY in Birmingham, Ala., forthwith banned the playing of any Beatle record on his radio station. KTEE, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, announced a similar policy "until Lennon retracts." KZEE, in Weatherford, Texas, damned their songs "eternally." By week's end, dozens of U.S. stations and others as far away as Spain and South Africa had joined...
...were due to begin a 14-city U.S. tour in Chicago this weekend. Epstein has had to deal with the Beatles' foxy chitchat before. "Show business," they once said, "belongs to the Jews; it's part of the Jewish religion." In New York, Epstein coolly declared that Lennon himself was getting a little religion. "John," he announced at a press conference, "is deeply concerned, and regrets that people with certain religious beliefs should have been offended...
...Beatle debate continues, and teen-boppers all over the nation are coming to the rescue of their sacred quartet. The generational war has begun, and Virginia S. Daniels of 36 Acorn St., Malden, is circulating a petition in defense of John Lennon's remark that the Beatles are more popular than, Jesus, Miss Daniels has received a number of Bibles from those who are concerned for her soul...
...Manila to the usual frenzy: 4,000 screaming fans swarming over 700 police and soldiers at the airport. When they left two days later, the porters refused to carry their bags, and an angry crowd of Filipinos hollered "Go to hell!" and "Get out of our country!" John Lennon and George Harrison were roughed up against a wall, and Ringo was pushed down and kicked. What had the Beatles done? They had failed to show up at a scheduled luncheon with the wife of the President, Imelda Marcos. (The lads later claimed they were never invited.) Even a formal apology...