“ Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with 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. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.
—
TODAY IN BEATLEDOM
March 4, 1966 — John makes this infamous quote during an interview with Maureen Cleave of the Evening Standard.
The rest, as they say, is history.
