More popular than Jesus John Lennon's comments. The 1966 "L'Osservatore Romano" article noted that Lennon had apologised for his comments and that fellow Beatle Paul McCartney had criticized them." In 2010, Starr said that he had now found religion, adding, "For me, God is in my life ... I think the search has been on since the 1960s." In 2012, the "Houston Press" music blog compared several aspects of popular media and concluded that Jesus is more popular than the Beatles. In 2015, "The Philippine Star" said that almost half a century later, Lennon's statement proved half-wrong, reporting that "rock 'n roll is dead
More Than a Feeling The lyrics express the author's discontent with the present and his yearning for a former love named Marianne, whose memory is strongly evoked by an old familiar song. In an interview Scholz was asked, "Who is Marianne?" He replied, "There actually is a Marianne. She wasn't my girlfriend." He explained that when he was 8 or 9 years old he had a much older cousin who he thought was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen and that he was "secretly in love" with her (laughs). But he has also stated that the lyrics were inspired by his emotions