McCartney Times

There was a point in John Lennon’s life when he said, “[The Beatles] are more popular than Jesus now”. The uproar that followed simply claimed he was being blasphemous rather than inaccurate. At the time, he had reached a rarified status where he has remained ever since – an icon in every sense of the word.He was atop a pedestal of veneration, representing a set of beliefs for which he was a living symbol. This made him larger than his output. He had transcended art and became emblematic of a fraction of evolving society. So, while the popularity of his music may have waned by 1980, only scoring one number one in ten years as a solo artist, his status was positively unimpeached.

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Source: The murder of John Lennon