Being British helped sell records, and for at least a short period of time, American rock and roll record companies either sought out British bands and ignored American groups, or attempted to create American bands that sounded just like British groups. Hope that can kind of explain things.

The Beatles

1. On February 7 the Beatles arrived in New York for their inaugural U.S. visit, and two days later played on The Ed Sullivan Show to hysterical response and record viewership, thereby effecting a cataclysmic cultural shift and triggering a musical movement that would come to be known as the British Invasion.

“More popular than Jesus” is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview, in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus, and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music.

“It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary.

According to the band’s press officer, Derek Taylor, all four Beatles had abandoned their religious upbringings by 1964. In an interview for The Saturday Evening Post, in August of that year, he stated that the Beatles were “completely anti-Christ.

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John Lennon Net Worth

Paul McCartney – $1.2 Billion Leading the way is Sir Paul McCartney (born James Paul McCartney on June 18, 1942, in Liverpool, England). A singer-songwriter with The Beatles, Paul’s songwriting partnership with former bandmate John Lennon is one of the most successful in history.2 hari yang lalu