“Adiós Ronnie,” he scribbled in Spanish on the rag. After filming concluded, he gave it to Ron Lacey, a young British actor with whom he had become friends during furtive smoke breaks. He draped the cloth, less than a meter long, over himself during long waits between takes. He drew a rough portrait of his own face on the fabric, parodying the Shroud of Turin. Blasphemy? He was going to give them blasphemy. It was there, in the deserts of Almería, where Lennon found some scrap of military tarp or canvas and set his plan into action. During one with Diego Segura for Spanish pop magazine Fans, when he was asked if he had been drinking when he made the controversial comment, John asked Segura not to keep reminding him. The fact is that he couldn’t have avoided it anyway, with journalists bringing the topic up every time he was interviewed on set. He arrived there on Septemto act in anti-war movie How I Won the War, directed by Richard Lester – but rather than escaping the scandals, he brought more with him. The comparison with Jesus proved costly for the group, but a few weeks later, Lennon took the supposed sacrilege a step further while filming in Almería, in southern Spain. At the end of the tour, the Beatles decided to stop giving concerts once and for all. Throughout August the atmosphere at their concerts was thick with tension, and their press conferences, once light-hearted and humorous, turned into inquisitions in which the provocative rocker had to beg forgiveness from American fans. There were public bonfires of Beatles records in certain communities of the Bible Belt of the American South, and all four musicians received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan. His comments slipped by under the radar in the UK, where the interviews were first published, but in the United States they were seen by some as blasphemy and led to major controversy just before the Beatles’ third American tour. The young musician-turned-intellectual issued the quote in an interview as his way of describing society’s increasing secularization and the detachment between the youth and religion. El Beatle se la regaló al actor Ron Lacey. We're more popular than Jesus now I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity.” La parodia de la Sábana de Turín dibujada por Lennon. I needn't argue about that I'm right and I'll be proved right. His “crucifixion” by the US press had begun almost three years earlier, on July 29th, 1966, when the magazine Datebook published a striking quote from the Beatles frontman: “Christianity will go. “Christ! You know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are going / They're gonna crucify me,” sang John Lennon in The ballad of John and Yoko in the summer of 1969. John Lennon draws on his boots during the filming of "How I won the war" EFE
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