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8、记得《光荣与梦想》有一处提到约翰列侬的话:“我们比耶稣还吃香”,想知道这句话的原始出处。
从书架上取下商务版《1932-1972年美国实录:光荣与梦想》(第四册),在书后附的《索引》中查Lennon,嗯,没有。再查Beatles,在切口页954,1000,1100,1102,1112中找这句话,半天没找到,靠,原来在1103页:
披头士乐队中的约翰·伦农说,“我们现在比耶稣还吃香。”
在GOOGLE中以“Lennon Jesus than”做关键词,搜索所有网站。很容易检索到1966年3月4日约翰·列侬接受伦敦《Evening
Standard》记者Maureen Cleave采访时说过“We're more
popular than Jesus Christ now”
"Christianity will go. 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."
美国的青少年杂志《Datebook》7月份一篇文章引用过列侬的话。
在http://www.beatlesagain.com/bapology.html网页中我们可以看到《Datebook》的封面,还可以听到列侬为此辩解的部分录音。搜索到这儿该终止了。可当我们返回GOOGLE的检索结果时,又发现了加引号的“The
Beatles are bigger than Jesus”,这是不是列侬的原话呢?我们在网页http://www.guardian.co.uk/thebeatles/page/0,11302,607848,00.html提供的披头士大事年表里,查到了如下说法:
March 4, 1966
The London Evening Standard publishes an interview with John
Lennon in which he claims that the Beatles are "bigger than
Jesus".
为准确起见,需要找到那篇访谈的原文。用“Lennon
Jesus London Evening Standard Cleave”再检索一下。在网页http://www.angelfire.com/ia/beatlesfans2/articles/beatlelive.html中我们找到了访谈全文。没有找到“bigger
than Jesus”
那么“bigger than Jesus”到底出自哪里呢?以“Lennon
bigger than Jesus”为关键词,再检索。还是不能证实“bigger
than Jesus”出自列侬之口,大概是以讹传讹。Let it
Be,就这样吧。
最后在GOOGLE中键入“BEATLES”,共约有2,160,000项查询结果,再试试“JESUS”试试,和和,共约有13,300,000项查询结果。
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