Thread 127341010

>Lennon's "bigger than Jesus" comment created the biggest controversy of The Beatles career
>The same magazine it was printed in included Paul saying all black people in America are dirty niggers and literally no one gives a fuck
Why did this happen?

>>127341010 (OP)
OP has an 85 IQ and no reading comprehension

Dylan saying "message songs are a drag"... ironic

>>127342006
you're so perceptive

>>127342006
Its a joke

>>127341010 (OP)
>scott walker in the middle of these boybands
Great days...

>>127342665
scott walker was literally in a boyband at the time

>>127341010 (OP)
Well I think it's evident, it was MORE controversial to say you're "bigger than Jesus," than it was to say "if you're black in the US you're treated like shit." Your average American person was either racist or accepted racism as part of life, so they didn't give a fuck if some Brits were looking down their noses at US race politics. Most people wouldn't blink twice at the word nigger back then.

>>127341010 (OP)
>>127343821
>The Beatles were hard men
This was an INCREDIBLY gay statement from Lemmy that honestly ruined a lot of his credibility.

>>127341010 (OP)
If this magazine was put out today Paul would get in more trouble for just quoting something like that.

>>127343976
True. Did you see the trouble Zayn got into for just mentioning the possibility of touring in Israel?

>>127341010 (OP)
Who's Mike Brian?

>>127343821
>Your average American person was either racist or accepted racism as part of life
>Most people wouldn't blink twice at the word nigger back then.
polcels actually believe this