On Friday, March 4, 1966, John Lennon’s statement “we’re more popular than Jesus now” was published in the London Evening Standard by Maureen Cleave under the title ‘How Does a Beatle Live’. The article drew little attention in Britain, but when part of the interview was published in the US Magazine Datebook on July 29, 1966 it set off a wave of protest in the Southern US Bible Belt that eventually spread around the US. Here are a few newspaper articles from 1966 and the fallout from John’s ‘we’re more popular than Jesus’ statement: see at nonnelnhoj.com
