Early August 1966, Christian groups, primarily in the Southern United States took to the streets to burn the sin out of their beloved Beatles records in response to John Lennons remark that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus.






Collage of some of the newspaper headlines, Beatle protests, and Beatle bonfires that erupted in the U.S. following John Lennons more popular than Jesus remark, republished in DateBook teen magazine.




It all began in March 1966, Londons Evening Standard ran a weekly series titled How Does a Beatle Live? that featured John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and finally 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. During the Lennon interview, and in the writing of her article which appeared on page ten of Londons Evening Standard of March 4, 1966 a paragraph written by Cleave described Lennons views on religion, noting at the end of the graph, that Lennon was then reading a lot about religion.


Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I neednt argue about that; Im right and Ill be proved right. Were more popular than Jesus now; I dont know which will go firstrock n roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. Its them twisting it that ruins it for me.




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