I remember that! What a firestorm! Wonder what such a statement would do today.
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
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>>But in full context, Lennon wasn’t attempting to say what would be regarded as a blasphemous and negative comment.
Bullsh!t. He followed later by saying that Christianity (and Beatlemania itself) would go away some day.
I bet Lennon is imagining if he could only go back and have a redo about now.
I could be wrong but IIRC this was one of the things that set off Mark David Chapman to murder Lennon.
‘Christianity will go,’ he said. ‘It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I will 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.’
I think that at that point (in the UK and the US) he may have been correct.
Which says more about the people than it does the Beatles.
He was referring to Jesus Cruz his landscaper.
A week later, John met Yoko.
They also liked the USSR.
I have never been a huge Beatles fan, and I never liked John Lennon. Neverthless, I knew, even as a Christian boy at that time, what he was saying. He was not intending blasphemy.
I bet Lennon has regretted that statement now for about 40 years.
Well, that statement surely followed John Lennon to his death.
Interesting chain of events. What happens when demons are let loose?
The Dakota building in NYC, where Lennon was shot, had been the site of the 1968 film, Rosemary’s Baby. The movie is about a woman who is raped in a Satanic orgy and gives birth to the antiChrist.
That film was directed by Roman Polanski.
A year after Rosemary’s Baby was a smash hit, in August 1969, Polanski’s wife, 8 months pregnant Sharon Tate, is murdered by the Manson gang in Hollywood.
The demonic Manson murderers stab Tate so brutally, her boy baby is nearly sliced from her belly.
But the murders on Cielo Drive were of the wrong victims.
Manson’s gang intended to slaughter people who no longer lived there, not Roman Polanski’s wife & child
Roman Polanski fled the US in 1978 to escape imprisonment for statutory rape if a 13 year old gurk.
In 1980, Lennon is murdered at the site of Polanski’s 1968
film, Rosemary’s Baby.
The Beatles did quite well after 1966.
Wherever Lennon is right now...wonder if he wishes he could take those words back?
I remember that well. Arrogant jerk. Well, hey, Lennon, Jesus lives, and you’re dead.
It’s George that I think should be more worried. Hari Krishna
Never liked those jerks. Music? What music? Just noise!
Florida has an Imagine license plate after this jackass. Interesting to see the drivers . Totally creepy!
John Lennon was an atheist.....when he made that remark their manager knew he had steped in it. I remember all the DJs trying to cover his ass but it what out there and there wasn’t much to say about it.