The Pope forgives John Lennon!
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Pope Benedict XVI has forgiven John Lennon more than 40 years after he uttered one of music's most famous phrases: "The Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ!"
Lennon († 40), who shot dead in 1980, made the comment in a 1966 interview, and it caused outrage and controversy around the world - and especially within the Catholic Church.
But the Vatican 'Osservatore Romano' newspaper has marked the 40th anniversary of the release of the Fab Four’s ‘White Album’ with an article admiring the group’s success and forgiving Lennon.
His words were dismissed by the paper as being nothing more than “the arrogance of a young person from the British working class, who was obviously overwhelmed by his unexpected success”.
The ‘White Album’ was so called because of the colour of its cover, and was one of the Liverpool group’s later records. A large part of it was inspired by the time the group spent meditating in northern India in the 1960s.
Now the Vatican is praising the legendary Beatles album, saying it demonstrated how creative the band could be in comparison to the “standardised, stereotypical music” that is produced today.
The Beatles in pictures: http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/celebrity-gossip/2008/11/24/pope-forgi...
Source: www.bild.com
Lennon († 40), who shot dead in 1980, made the comment in a 1966 interview, and it caused outrage and controversy around the world - and especially within the Catholic Church.
But the Vatican 'Osservatore Romano' newspaper has marked the 40th anniversary of the release of the Fab Four’s ‘White Album’ with an article admiring the group’s success and forgiving Lennon.
His words were dismissed by the paper as being nothing more than “the arrogance of a young person from the British working class, who was obviously overwhelmed by his unexpected success”.
The ‘White Album’ was so called because of the colour of its cover, and was one of the Liverpool group’s later records. A large part of it was inspired by the time the group spent meditating in northern India in the 1960s.
Now the Vatican is praising the legendary Beatles album, saying it demonstrated how creative the band could be in comparison to the “standardised, stereotypical music” that is produced today.
The Beatles in pictures: http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/celebrity-gossip/2008/11/24/pope-forgi...
Source: www.bild.com
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