{"id":1826,"date":"2008-11-26T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-26T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T10:03:08","slug":"vatican-forgives-lennon-for-more-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/vatican-forgives-lennon-for-more-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Forgives Lennon for “More Popular Than Jesus” Remark but not for Rock ‘n Roll<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“It will vanish and shrink We’re more popular than Jesus now – I don’t know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.” – John Lennon, 1966<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After 40 years, the Vatican has forgiven John Lennon for his “bigger than Jesus” remark<\/a>. In a piece celebrating the 40th anniversary of “The White Album,” L’Osservatore Romano<\/em> also stated its preference for the single version of “Revolution” and cited a 1973 radio appearance in which he sang along to Beatles songs, making up nonsensical lyrics, as evidence of the solo Lennon’s ability to poke fun at his time in the Beatles<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Vatican would not budge on one issue, however:<\/p>\n

John Lennon’s 1975 album of pre-Beatles covers, Rock ‘n Roll<\/em>, continues to disappoint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It will vanish and shrink We’re more popular than Jesus now – I don’t know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.” – John Lennon, 1966 After 40 years, the Vatican has forgiven John […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}