Vatican: Beatles music better than today's songs

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Vatican City : Vatican City | 7 months ago

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VATICAN CITY – Vatican media are praising the Beatles' musical legacy and sounding philosophical about John Lennon's boast that the British band was more popular than Jesus.

Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano recalls that Lennon's comment outraged many when he made it in 1966.

But it says in its Saturday edition that the remark can be written off now as the bragging of a young man wrestling with unexpected success.

The newspaper as well as Vatican Radio last week noted the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' "White Album."

It said the album demonstrated how creative the Beatles were, compared with what it called the "standardized, stereotypical" songs being produced today.

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GoGreen | 7 months ago

The Vatican sounds pretty reasonable as they reflect on the comments made by Lennon. It's very refreshing!

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Punditty | 7 months ago

What next? Will the pope retract the "wrong kind of prophet" slur he made against Bob Dylan? There is hope! Maybe we could even get back to those "cool Catholics of the '70s" Masses we post-Vatican II Catholic Kids knew and loved so well.

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doll777 | 7 months ago

A guy who is stuck still anti-semitically and anti-Islamically scandalizing the name of the father of Mary and grandfather of Jesus... fully 91 years after Fatima... truly still does not hear any better than he reads anyway. Since he and his Knight Waldheim are therefore the father of all current terrorism, I think he just feels safer with a dead John Lennon than with any Rolling Stone or other LIVE threat.

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