It only took 40 years, but it seems that John Lennon’s 1966 comment that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus has actually been statistically validated. According to the Telegraph, data from Google trends, a site which determines Google’s most popular search terms, indicated that in early September the number of ‘Beatles’ queries rocketed past those for ‘Jesus.’

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Watching the Dave Matthews Band moments before they take the stage is like watching a football team bursting out of the locker room before a big game.

They slap hands. Bump fists. Jump up and down, exclaiming “Feel the love, feel the love!” The energy in the air is electric. Read the full story

John Lennon did many brilliant things in his life, but arguably one of his most inspired acts was his deliberate destruction of the Beatles in 1969 — just 40 years ago this month. It didn’t seem that way then, not to tens of millions of devastated Beatles fans around the world, and not to Paul McCartney, who, feeling abandoned, went off to his farm in Scotland and into a deep depression.

But if Lennon, who’d started the group that evolved into the Beatles, hadn’t murdered his creation at that moment, if the band had somehow struggled on through their rows into the 1970s,

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Tired of reading about U.S. history? Check this song out. Flipsyde paints a picture of the United States history with their lyrics.