More popular than Jesus to religion in his songs "God" (1970) and "Imagine" (1971). He was murdered in December 1980 by Mark David Chapman, a born-again Christian who was incensed by the "more popular than Jesus" remark. In March 1966, London's "Evening Standard" ran a weekly series of articles titled "How Does a Beatle Live?" that featured, in chronological order, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Paul McCartney. The articles were written by journalist Maureen Cleave, who knew the group well and had interviewed them regularly since the start of Beatlemania in the UK. Three years previously she had described them as "the
Evening Standard two months to 12 April were published as news stories in the paper, "reproducing headlines from the news release virtually verbatim", according to the study. On 14 December 2004, Associated Newspapers launched a Monday–Friday freesheet edition of the "Evening Standard" called "Standard Lite" to help boost circulation. This had 48 pages, compared with about 80 in the main paper, which also had a supplement on most days. In August 2006, the freesheet was relaunched as "London Lite". It was designed to be especially attractive to younger female readers and featured a wide range of lifestyle articles, but less news and