McCartney Times

“Television will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and will be proved right. We’re more popular than Ed Sullivan now. I don’t know which’ll go first – Rock and Roll or CBS. Lew Grade’s alright, but his disciples are thick and ordinary.”

If John Lennon had said this to the Evening Standard journalist Maureen Cleave in 1966 instead of holding a mirror up to the diminishing masses huddled in religious ceremony across the Western world, it’s possible that he may have avoided the trigger finger of a crazed fanatic 14 years later. But he didn’t. Instead, he compared the Beatles’ astonishing popularity to that of Jesus Christ, or more to the point, to his followers.

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Source: The story of how The Beatles became bigger than Jesus