-Caveat Lector-
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Aleisha Saba wrote:
>Well June shows here ignorance agan; here is item on Lennon and when one
>considers his big mouth cost him money, he back tracked......
Your 'quote' is from a 4th-party source, and is still taken out of
context...
Get a copy of the ACTUAL INTERVIEW, not what some hacks have reported to
be the interview.
Lennon never backtracked on what he ACTUALLY said in the original
interview...
>Who cared? So Lennon bit the dust and no great loss.
Lennon hardly 'bit the dust' due to this interview, and in fact the
Beatles went on to greater heights, both artistically and monetarily,
after this tempest in a teapot.
And it was an extremely great loss to the world when he was
assassinated...and keep in mind, I say this having been neither a great
Beatle's fan nor a fan of Lennon's...
>Lennon stated the disciples were "thick and ordinary"...
And the problem with this observation is....what?
>...the Beatles were as common as an old shoe
They never hid their working-class roots...
And your problem with working-class people is....what?
Perhaps you prefer the Rolling Stones, who came from much better economic
backgrounds than the Beatles? ;-)
>and never lost their Limey accents - Lennon, unto the day
>he died in the streets gunned down by an admirerer.
So who cares whether they lost their accents or not? Why should they?
>I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would
>have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God,
>anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I was not knocking it. I was not saying
>we are greater or better.
This was the whole crux of the 'greater interview' that he gave, from
which his comments were both taken out of context and actually changed;
and as he pointed out, he could have just as easily said TV or movies or
comicbooks or golf were more popular than religion...
I remember that a few weeks after the controversy broke here in the U.S.,
some publication actually published the WHOLE interview, and presented to
people in the street, without attributing it to Lennon, and asked their
opinion of the sentiments expressed. Not a one was outraged; yet before
it was revealed who had made the comments, these same people were asked
their opinion on the John Lennon "the Beatles are greater than Christ"
pseudo-controversy...all of them expressed outrage at the alleged
statement and vehemently condemned the Beatles in general and Lennon in
particular. They were all quite taken back when they were told that the
interview they'd just read was the actual interview from which Lennon's
supposed comments were taken...most were quite contrite and admitted they
had absolutely no problem with the actual sentiments expressed in the
interview, in fact most sheepishly admitted that they AGREED with
Lennon's comments...
>A few months later, in October 1966, the Archbishop of Boston agreed
>that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ, modern times being
>what they were.
That may have been in the very same article I describe in the previous
paragraph....
>It is interesting to observe that one reason why nobody cared about
>Lennon's comment in Britain was that they assumed it was just one man's
>opinion. In America, on the other hand, much of the furor had its
>wellspring in the fact that the Beatles enjoyed a status larger than
>mere mortals, and their opinions were not just opinions. Hence the very
>reaction to his comment helped to prove John's point.
And Saba's posting this proves mine...
June
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