4 March 1966

Beatles ‘more
popular than Jesus’

On this day in 1966, John Lennon met his friend Maureen Cleave, a journalist for the London Evening Standard. In the course of an informal interview at his house in Weybridge, Lennon remarked that the Beatles were ‘more popular than Jesus right now’. Read on...
Bill Shergold conducts a service with John Robertson (out of picture)
Picture: Club 59 Spain