...especially in the US, causing Lennon lo explain himself al a press conference in Chicago, 1 1 Aug. 1966: rsen-Courier (6 Feb. 1926; repr. ¡n Brecht on Theatre, pi. 1 ; ed. and tr. by John Wille». 19 Cod as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong....

...especially in the US, causing Lennon to explain himself at a press conference in Chicago, Aug. 11, 1966: "I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing...or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this." in his autobiography, A Moveable Feast, ch....

...chutzpah that lay behind the comparison. Lennon's dazed and anxious retraction was that he "wasn't comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is."47 Well, actually he was. Now, for a fundamentalist Christian who cannot see past the immediate...

...disapproval. In August, prior to the Beatles' American tour, Lennon offered a halfhearted apology: "I'm not saying that we're better or greater or comparing us with Jesus as a person."38 The controversy died down, but it demonstrated the broad social influence of rock and...