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"We're More Popular Than Jesus Now" John Lennon | Speeches That Got Someone Killed


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Mike, Landon, Ross, and Matt consider how John Lennon's interview in March 1966 with London's Evening Standard influenced Mark David Chapman and the legacy of Christianity, the Beatles, and musical counterculture that persists today.

The speech can be read here:

www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/1966/03/…sus-now/

A blog by Mr. Robert Rosen was discussed and can be accessed here concerning the significance of "Chapter 27" in The Catcher in the Rye:

robertrosen.blogspot.com/2006/01/root…chapter.html

Thumbnail comes from here:

www.businessinsider.com/john-lennon-f…-he-was-24-10

Lennon's song, "God" comes from here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCNkPpq1giU

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