John Lennon's Jesus Quote Explored in Film

We're bigger than Jesus now." John Lennon's words -- spoken 43 years ago Wednesday, in an interview with the Evening Standard -- about the Beatles are among the most controversial in rock 'n' roll history. "Christianity will go," he said. "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." When the quote was taken out of context by an American teen magazine five months later, Lennon was crucified in America. A documentary, 'Inside John Lennon,' takes a look at the furor, recapturing the time with both news footage and interviews. [more]