“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I’ll be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
These were the words of John Lennon in a March 4, 1966 interview with the London Evening Standard, that would forever alter the course of the Band.
Once the American media got a hold of this quote in August 1966, it wasn’t too long after that the Beatles and John Lennon were wishing they had never done those London interviews.
This may seem hard to believe, but demonstrations broke out all over the U.S. and other countries because of his blasphemous statement. For a time, the Beatles actually feared for their lives.
Eventually, the controversy grew so hostile that the Beatles held a press conference to try and smother the flames before they went on tour again. (More …)
David Bahati, a Ugandan legislator, 
