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 business news than the main paper. It was initially only available between 11.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. at "Evening Standard" vendors and in the central area, but later became available in the evening from its street distributors. With the sale of the "Evening Standard", but not the "London Lite", to Alexander Lebedev on 21 January 2009, the ownership links between the "Standard" and the "Lite" were broken. On Fridays, the newspaper includes a free glossy lifestyle magazine, "ES" (launched as the "Evening Standard Magazine" in 2009), and the circulation was increased to 350,000 in September 2014. This has moved from