The Beatles in America (1966) - "More popular than Jesus"
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- On 13 June 2023, Sir Paul McCartney told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he had used AI technology to "extricate" John Lennon's voice from an old demo in order to create what he referred to as "the final Beatles record". Months later, on 26 October, it was announced that the mystery track is a complete version of Now And Then, a demo composed and recorded by John Lennon in 1978 (two years before his death), and finally completed after four decades and featuring all four Beatles. Now and Then will be released on 2 November 2023.
This exclusive ITN News documentary film follows The Beatles - Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr - on their tour of America in 1966, a tour plagued by the controversy which followed Lennon's comments that the band were 'more popular than Jesus Christ'. The report includes rare footage of Lennon defending his comments and offering an apology. It was after this US tour that the band decided to stop playing live shows, their last live gig taking place on 29 August 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California.
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In 1966 I was 14 and Living in New York. A kid told me he was going to burn his Beatle Records. I told him, give them to me I'm going to burn mine to. Fifty-Eight years Later, I still have them. LOL
Bold move, mister Watson.
Oh my god, I love that
That was clever lol
Alguien tendría que hacer un libro con las anécdotas que había alrededor de los beatles. Sería muy interesante
@@franciscallullriera6803 hay bastantes libros al respecto.
I firmly believe what John Lennon was trying to imply that to the youth of that time, the Beatles were more popular than going to church.
Yes, but saying Christianity would “shrink and vanish” was just plain stupid.
@@pauldavies5611 the bible says christianity will shrink and vanish as well, and you can see it happening today, more and more people are atheists than ever
@@pauldavies5611 it's already happening gradually
@@expertojordigg Think so? I take it you’re not a believer.
Apologies to all the Monks out there
Everyone in Alabama is a good-looking blonde girl apparently. Crazy and Bible-Beltish obviously, but I can't help but love their accents as well, as a Brit, that is.
Ikr even the men too, why are they all so good looking 😂
George Harrison looks exhausted and wants to get the next plane out of the USA. I dont blame him for not wanting to tour again.
A real christian would not burn the records. because christian’s are supposed to love not hate. jesus says to love your neighbor as yourself. In the church we would not do this. My grandparents were around these kids ages. And they wouldn’t do it
That Baptist pastor. Wow. To simply sidestep what was being done to Blacks in his city while trying to portray himself as very rational and religious was mind blowing.
John Lennon was absolutely right. He should never have apologized. I am an American.
john was just saying how he was upset that the beatles were more popular than jesus and meant more to kids than jesus, you think these fools would have agreed with him and been upset as well about it. but they were to dumb to understand what he meant.
The Beatles producer asked to do it. To avoid all this.
@@paulsilberrt the beatles producer was george martin, what did he ask to do? you're making no sense paul.
The Beatles are The Best
"We've run out of Beatles records to burn" "quick go buy some more"!
5:55 This young woman is smart and mature. She says exactly what I have long thought. Why should popularity be the basic measure of the value of their religious figure? Being a leader of right over wrong means telling people things that are frequently going to be unpopular. And you cannot compare the sort of popularity an entertainer achieves with the popularity of a spiritual ideal or religion.
Read Isaiah
43:10-12. Isaiah names 4 times who the suffering servant is, and its not Jesus. It's Israel, the holy remnants that followed God's Commandments and laws given by God. to Moses when He spoke to him for 40 days.
«We will not allow any dancing”
THE LAND OF THE FREE.
Please allow me to laugh out loud. 😂😂😂😂
Jesus loves John Lennon
Spiderman loves him too
At the time when John Lennon made his statement, "Were more popular then JESUS the people that really to offense to his statement were the southerners, now, let's go back to the days of the days B4 the civil war, what area owned slaves, the southerners, they bought these people & had them doing everything from house cleaning to laundry to picking cotton & if the job wasn't done well enough then they beat them with BULL WHIP, this treatment went on for years & these are the same people that fell offense with John's statement.
They treated their fellow man like dirt, but yet fell offense to John Lennon's statement.
People getting mad for mocking their imaginary friend 😂
That girl at 7:30 is very smart.
Nice brains, bad teeth.
Una de cal y una de arena. 😜
@@Gerardoooooooo Better than nice teeth, bad brains.
Yeah. Pretty ahead of her time!
9:06 wow! This could be 2024 witch-hunt talk.
@@Gerardoooooooo i love her teeth
Paul was clearly given the 'spokesman' duties here and did an OK job, sort of.... and then John finally took over and made things epic x
The American South is KNOWN for its intellectualism...
I only see intellectuality in the girl at 7:30.
And we can see where it's gotten Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Portland. Minneapolis. D.C., Milwaukee, L.A. and NYC, for example. Good call..
lmfao these interviews are hilarious
U realize the purpose of a comment section under a video is to discuss the content of that video, right?
At least it was before William joined.
@@ryanm9580let’s discuss why it was funny. Because I agree with JustAnotherBlader. These interviews were hilarious😂
@@samp8986 discuss it then.
I think the interview at 5:55 is my favourite because she is absolutely right. She doesn’t take offence to what Jahn said because the offence wasn’t against her.
John Lennon: *The Title*
Mark David Chapman: “I’m about to end this man’s career!!!”
Note the likes of Ray Davies, Pete Townshend and Mick Jagger kept their heads down.
I really don't understand the idea behind burning the records. Just because an opportunistic disc jockey told them to do it? A bit of a knee-jerk reaction, if you ask me. People are such dumbasses. Lol.
I love how the thumbnail made George look like he wanted to be anywhere but there
COME TO FATHER by APOLOGETIX a great Beatles parody on TH-cam
absolutely ADORE this video it's so cinematic ⚰
2024 and things haven't changed much in Alabama. 58 years later the Beatles are still more popular than J.C.
And Conservatives have Destroyed America.
Is the people still so narrow minded down there?
FACTS
@@Caifomost definitely
That's what you think. Most overrated horrible band that ever was.
I have to say I love the seriousness and professionalism of the police officer who did the briefing. When the Beatles had played in Houston the previous summer, the stupid Houston Police Department didn't take the crowd assault potential seriously, with the result that it's close to miraculous that no one got killed at the airport.
Brian Epstein. "Spinal cracker". Happened there.
If Jesus stands as the Almighty of Creation, one would think the "Christians" of the Bible Belt wouldn't have cared or regarded for one moment what John had said. (As if Jesus needed any of them to fight for him on his behalf in the first place. 😁) The whole point of burning their records publicly was a massive violent act for sure, especially the message that was relayed to their children! Destroy what you disagree with, which has never worked on planet Earth, nor can it. But they still keep trying bless their tiny, blackened souls.
But... isn't it also ironic that if the Bible Belt felt John's statement was absolute blasphemy, then why did they respond to it as if it were the truth?!
The sunglassed, KKK dude who was interviewed at the time said they (KKK) were a religious order and then referred to themselves in the same breath as a terrorist organization. What?! Which is it?! Both? Probably.
Book banning, Beatle banning, assassinations, burning crosses, and humans at the stake is a primitive form of psychopathic vengeance that never questions itself or its intent because it doesn't see itself as wrong and therefore completely in line with what they believe faith is to "them". Therefore, they become automatically justified for all their actions, no matter how violent, hypocritical, or insane they really are. But everyone got a lot of free publicity out of it, didn't they, and the Beatles amazingly, are still more popular than Tommy Charles of WAQY's "Ban the Beatles" crusade!
I'm a Christian, and the whole matter of greater popularity than Jesus is and always was idiotic, and the outraged reactions were disingenuous and performative.
Any Christian, any true Christian as opposed to a sanctimonious phony, understands that this world is by nature hostile to God, hostile to Jesus Christ. I'm sure a lot of the teens were naive and genuinely hurt, but most people in the South in those days took the whole thing in stride. I should know. I was one of them.
I tire of being mad about the way the knee jerk beatle haters took what John said and twisted it into a mass hysteria ,the older gen like my granddaddy hated the hair,,, the music ,,,because it frightened them,, a bunch of guys making tons of money and being free, that's what they hated ,the freedom and the fear they were going to lose control of their kids minds,,, they wanted to control them, and kids were seeing a new way of thinking, behaving and turning a deaf ear to their parents lifestyle and music. What John meant was they had heard that they were now as well known as Jesus. Nuff said.
I used to think this was an exaggeration but then Swifties compared Taylor to Michael Jackson and I get it.
That was the problem. The DJs were brainwashed Christ followers not music aficionados. I mean, look at this jockey. Bad plaid and tie. Their view was narrow: 'Keep it clean and wholesome for the kiddies'. It changed later on when FM debuted. The DJs were given free reign and that spurred on the bands to be bolder and take chances.
Damn george always smoke
didnt all the beatles smoke?
@@janullrich7341 Yes all 4 of them did heavily
He was talking about Britain and I think time has proven him right.
Here in the States as well.
It's fashionable to be an atheist.
And church people have lost the plot mostly.
We learned that in 2020.
He was right.
5:55 this girl's right, she knows what she's talking about
John did a typical ADHD-thing, he said something in a straight-forward way, which he knew was true, but wasn't that aware of how people would take. At least he admitted he was being clumsy and apologized in order not to get lynched by all those religious people who had (chosen to) misinterpret(ed) him.
Also, if you look at other interviews about this, you can see that Paul is pretty damned angry as well, they all are.
I still wonder why John did that thing with his mouth though...
John and Paul subtly playing off each otther...liked John's FU comment via the "sorry monks" remark...you could sense his irritation.
If I were a teen in 1966, I hope this controversy would make me like the Beatles more.
If only you knew then John... you are the Christ. Christ is buried in all of us and will awaken.
These religious nuts do not understand the Bible which by the way is written in allegory.
The Bible is not secular history, it is Salvation history.
As it states in the Bible:
In the book it is All about Me.
The book is all about each one of us individually.
It also says:
Do you not know Jesus Christ is IN you (Paul to the foolish Galations)
They stoned Jesus for saying he was God... for which he replied does it not say in your scriptures " I say ye are Gods"
John was right.. but he didn't know he was talking about himself❤
strangely comparable with Soviet Stalinism of the same period
Has anyone in Alabama forgiven John for his comments? 58 years is a very long time ago!!
John was definitely a better guitarist than Jesus.
Le plus grand phenomene du show business
5:55 girl u r Brilliant !
i bet that boy at 5:13 had long hair in the 70s.
7:16 it’s just a joke lady.
Patterson will pay !!!
oh dear
Very Rare!!!!!!
Rare? A clean version without this annoying ITN logo splashed all over it has been circulating for years!
Yea
@@busterfriendly7115 Sir or maam - sure, the ITN logo might be annoying - but - look at the bright side - this is the best quality of this footage I have hitherto seen on YT - and - it is in _one piece_ - not in parts
Sometimes fame could get to your head as it had done with John Lennon. However, who were on the young people's minds during Beatlemania? Many times men will let you down by showing you that they are just men. Jesus will never turn against you
Come on. 58 years and you still think he was being bitchy or pompous when he said it? He wasn't. He was always a critic of the whole Beatlemania thing. That was the tone of the interview. Google it and read the article.
@@Caifo was he critical during the era of Beatlemania, 1963 to 1965,? Or years later after they had broken up? If it's the firmer then I would say that I would not be surprised if his lookalike had replaced him for remaining years of the Beatles from 67 to 70
@@stickshiftdriver1832 for Beatlemania I mean the craziness, the screaming and all the things that happened to them on the tours. That's why they stopped touring in 1966.
@@Caifo some of the screaming girls were planted in the audience to start domino affects of other girls to scream. There are probably other reasons why they stopped touring in 66. The screaming would had eventually ceased in 67 forward. Names such as Beatles, Hollies, Animals, Crickets, were becoming passe by 1967 except the Stones and the Who. True John probably was getting tired and wanted a career change as well as the rest
@@stickshiftdriver1832 planted by who? According to who?
So this is why Paul was killed then
it's fascinating how important religion was in america compared to england
yeah, i don't understand the reasoning behind it. i'm American but not a religious person at all. Nor political, for that matter but I have my views of things if asked. I like to think i'm fair-minded about things. It seems like a lot are just fanatics and don't utilize three-dimensional thinking when it comes to certain discourse. Of course, with religion there tends to be not much in the way of logic so faith in that operates on an entirely different level. Politics relies on some party claiming divinity or truth while denouncing the other as the opposite. It's just smoke and mirrors, as far as I'm concerned, but there is massive misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, etc to muddy the waters so it's hard to really tell what's what. In today's society, as far as how social media portrays it anyway, people are so conditioned to not only hate opposing viewpoints, but the people from which these viewpoints are expressed as well. Total shitshow, but I digress. Lol. At any rate, I noted your observation also.
They all looked a bit different, those were probably their body doubles for safety reason.
😂😂😂
I could listen to people from Alabama talk about things all day.
As opposed to all of the word salad being spewed about, you know....the thing.
Bigger than Rod
Love the rutles
12:43 some dude showing the finger
"Mother Superior jump the gun" in reverse "Mocked For My Theory of Christedom"
The Beatles placed Aleister Crowley on their Sgt. Pepper album
Lennon sang imagine there's no heaven, above us only sky
Yeah and?
Probably lucky they didn't get lynched. Watch what you say & do when you're in America. Did you know you can get free medical if you come in from the south?😮
Yeah and STOP CRYING.
Get a Life & Grow a Brain.
And the KKK is alive and well and voting for Trump.
God is perfect , jesus was a real humble man and when you despite him you open the way for evil, sad end for j.lennon thought
2023 and you still believe in fantasy
Lennon got what he deserved after funding terrorism.
Oh, he funded the British army did he?@@MarkHarrison733
@@MarkHarrison733 And you will always be " NOTHING BUT A DORK ."
@@keith8785 he sounds like your typical conservative dork LOL
The Christians should read their Bible. Its right in there in Isaiah 43:10-12, that there is no savior. Isaiah also states that Israel is the suffering servant, not Jesus. Also the Christian writers were writing the New Testament 35-100 years after his death. The disciples never wrote anything down themselves. They never learned how to read and write. Christianity never caught on until 300 after his death because Constantine, a Roman promoted to try and destroy the Jewish religion. Christ's birthday was chosen by Roman influence.. December 25 was regarded as a miracles because by that day, sunlight was getting longer. The Romans didn't know what caused the seasons. The Jewish leaders knew Jesus wasn't the messiah, described by the Jewish prophets and so they chose the false prophet to die given the choice. The Roams killed him, not the jews. The Romans killed anyone who broke Roman laws before and after the death of Jesus.
I wonder who was paying for all those protests and posters "go home" etc. If we knew who paid for all this we would know who murdered Paul.
Nobody murdered Paul, John got murdered in the 1980:s and someone tried to kill George in 1999. We know the names of both the killer and the stabber.