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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@jameswatson9422 3 ай бұрын

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

@Caifo 2 ай бұрын

Bold move, mister Watson.

@LongTallSally1963 2 ай бұрын

Oh my god, I love that

@rachelthompson7487 2 ай бұрын

That was clever lol

@robertmasina7388 3 ай бұрын

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.

@pauldavies5611 9 күн бұрын

Yes, but saying Christianity would “shrink and vanish” was just plain stupid.

@archangelmusic13 8 күн бұрын

@@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

@samnous2002 4 ай бұрын

That girl at 7:30 is very smart.

@Gerardoooooooo 3 ай бұрын

Nice brains, bad teeth. Una de cal y una de arena. 😜

@samnous2002 3 ай бұрын

@@Gerardoooooooo Better than nice teeth, bad brains.

@Caifo 2 ай бұрын

Yeah. Pretty ahead of her time!

@micolsen9824 Ай бұрын

9:06 wow! This could be 2024 witch-hunt talk.

@cacamas Ай бұрын

@@Gerardoooooooo i love her teeth

@glennhopkins2643 17 күн бұрын

John Lennon was absolutely right. He should never have apologized. I am an American.

@archangelmusic13 8 күн бұрын

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.

@paulsilberrt 3 күн бұрын

The Beatles producer asked to do it. To avoid all this.

@archangelmusic13 3 күн бұрын

@@paulsilberrt the beatles producer was george martin, what did he ask to do? you're making no sense paul.

@navillus15 7 ай бұрын

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.

@helloihatehumanity7305 4 ай бұрын

Ikr even the men too, why are they all so good looking 😂

@DanielFranco-nt9ze 21 күн бұрын

The Beatles are The Best

@japanken8202 3 ай бұрын

absolutely ADORE this video it's so cinematic ⚰

@randymillhouse791 2 ай бұрын

The American South is KNOWN for its intellectualism...

@Caifo 2 ай бұрын

I only see intellectuality in the girl at 7:30.

@duffbaker9554 Ай бұрын

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..

@artgecko 2 ай бұрын

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

@bobtaylor170 2 ай бұрын

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.

@JamesDKlr Ай бұрын

Brian Epstein. "Spinal cracker". Happened there.

@Popperhilton Жыл бұрын

Very Rare!!!!!!

@busterfriendly7115 Жыл бұрын

Rare? A clean version without this annoying ITN logo splashed all over it has been circulating for years!

@thebeatles1553 Жыл бұрын

Yea

@lonespokesperson7254 11 ай бұрын

@@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

@Gerardoooooooo 3 ай бұрын

«We will not allow any dancing” THE LAND OF THE FREE. Please allow me to laugh out loud. 😂😂😂😂

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 26 күн бұрын

"Mother Superior jump the gun" in reverse "Mocked For My Theory of Christedom"

@pedroiank 2 ай бұрын

12:43 some dude showing the finger

@derexxdgaming Ай бұрын

oh dear

@juliasundberg7135 3 ай бұрын

I used to think this was an exaggeration but then Swifties compared Taylor to Michael Jackson and I get it.

@lanadandekar5523 Ай бұрын

Best comment

@archangelmusic13 8 күн бұрын

i bet that boy at 5:13 had long hair in the 70s.

@brianarbenz1329 12 күн бұрын

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.

@interstategar 9 күн бұрын

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.

@tonycsmith5655 3 ай бұрын

2024 and things haven't changed much in Alabama. 58 years later the Beatles are still more popular than J.C.

@keith8785 3 ай бұрын

And Conservatives have Destroyed America.

@Caifo 2 ай бұрын

Is the people still so narrow minded down there?

@wide_awake Ай бұрын

FACTS

@wide_awake Ай бұрын

@@Caifomost definitely

@glennhopkins2643 Ай бұрын

Patterson will pay !!!

@oliverqueen6077 Жыл бұрын

The Beatles placed Aleister Crowley on their Sgt. Pepper album Lennon sang imagine there's no heaven, above us only sky

@Lennon6412 5 ай бұрын

Yeah and?

@markdinkel-uh2je 3 ай бұрын

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?😮

@tonycsmith5655 3 ай бұрын

Yeah and STOP CRYING.

@keith8785 3 ай бұрын

Get a Life & Grow a Brain.

@jameswatson9422 3 ай бұрын

And the KKK is alive and well and voting for Trump.

@jonathanbradshaw2293 3 ай бұрын

I could listen to people from Alabama talk about things all day.

@duffbaker9554 Ай бұрын

As opposed to all of the word salad being spewed about, you know....the thing.

@JustAnotherBlader 8 ай бұрын

lmfao these interviews are hilarious

@ryanm9580 8 ай бұрын

U realize the purpose of a comment section under a video is to discuss the content of that video, right?

@NaaHva 7 ай бұрын

At least it was before William joined.

@samp8986 5 ай бұрын

⁠@@ryanm9580let’s discuss why it was funny. Because I agree with JustAnotherBlader. These interviews were hilarious😂

@dougie1968 2 ай бұрын

@@samp8986 discuss it then.

@samp8986 2 ай бұрын

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.

@billcowie 22 күн бұрын

Bigger than Rod

@tonyhoward1986 5 күн бұрын

Love the rutles

@user-zf3ho3iq1j Ай бұрын

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.

@pauldavies5611 9 күн бұрын

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.

@nakumininja Ай бұрын

Damn george always smoke

@janullrich7341 Ай бұрын

didnt all the beatles smoke?

@David-fp1fj 4 ай бұрын

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!

@bobtaylor170 2 ай бұрын

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.

@daneb.mcfadhen9896 5 ай бұрын

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.

@lennybustratt7024 2 күн бұрын

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...

@stickshiftdriver1832 4 ай бұрын

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

@Caifo 2 ай бұрын

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.

@stickshiftdriver1832 2 ай бұрын

@@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

@Caifo 2 ай бұрын

@@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.

@stickshiftdriver1832 2 ай бұрын

@@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

@Caifo 2 ай бұрын

@@stickshiftdriver1832 planted by who? According to who?

@lecavaliere 8 ай бұрын

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

@GJJ. 7 ай бұрын

2023 and you still believe in fantasy

@MarkHarrison733 7 ай бұрын

Lennon got what he deserved after funding terrorism.

@elizajohn5 5 ай бұрын

Oh, he funded the British army did he?@@MarkHarrison733

@keith8785 3 ай бұрын

@@MarkHarrison733 And you will always be " NOTHING BUT A DORK ."

@Tina-kc5qx 3 ай бұрын

@@keith8785 he sounds like your typical conservative dork LOL

@Relicit 2 ай бұрын

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.

@lennybustratt7024 Ай бұрын

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.

@interstategar 9 күн бұрын

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.