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Monday November 24, 2008
Catholic Church • Music:
The Vatican’s daily newspaper marked the 40th anniversary of the “The White Album”
by dismissing as a “quip” John Lennon’s notorious claim that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus Christ.At the time, the comment by Lennon to a London newspaper in 1966 infuriated Christians, particularly in the United States, some of whom burned Beatles’ albums in huge pyres. [video]
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Monday July 14, 2008
Music:
John Lennon famously claimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, even predicting that Christianity would “vanish and shrink”.
But 28 years after his death, in an interview being broadcast for the first time, he claims that on the contrary, he hoped to encourage people to focus on the Christian faith.
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Wednesday June 27, 2007
Music:
Her new double album, save for nods to Curtis Mayfield and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” stems from Old Testament scripture, as filtered through O’Connor’s post-Catholic, heavily Rastafarian sensibility.
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Saturday December 30, 2006
Christianity • Music:
This high-energy act could stand as the headliner at any nightclub. But the group’s chosen stage is the pulpit, bringing a faith-infused version of the hip-hop style called crunk to Atlanta-area churches.
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Saturday October 21, 2006
Music:
The show will go on in Utah for The Material Girl and her controversial televised concert performance, minus the scene featuring a mock crucifixion.
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Tuesday September 26, 2006
Music:
Madonna issued a statement Thursday following the final date of her record-breaking Confessions tour, which wrapped up today in Tokyo, defending her mock-crucifixion as not being “anti-Christian, sacrilegious or blasphemous.”
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Monday September 4, 2006
Music:
Barry McGuire had his 15 minutes of fame - and lived it to the max.
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Tuesday August 8, 2006
Music:
Vatican accuses her of blasphemy and provocation
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Saturday July 1, 2006
Music:
Andrae Crouch battled racism on way to legacy in Christian music
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Thursday May 25, 2006
Music:
Madonna has defended a controversial mock crucifixion in her stage show, saying it is part of an appeal to the audience to donate to Aids charities.
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Music:
Pop superstar Madonna has hit back at criticisms the crucifixion stunt on her Confessions tour is disrespectful to Christians, arguing her motives are honorable.
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Wednesday May 24, 2006
Music:
Finnish Eurovision winners Lordi have been defended against claims of Satanism by their country's ambassador to the UK.
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Monday May 22, 2006
Music:
Madonna has launched her first world tour in two years, delighting an enthusiastic Los Angeles crowd by hanging herself from a cross, insulting US President George Bush, and dusting off some of the sexy moves that have sustained her career for more than 20 years.
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Music:
"Every song is a cry for love," crooned Ireland's Brian Kennedy during Saturday night's 51st Eurovision Song Contest. He obviously hadn't heard Lordi, the Finnish horror rock sensation which beat him and acts from 21 other countries to clinch the most emphatic ever victory in the annual festival of kitsch pop.
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Tuesday May 2, 2006
Music:
The Devil is said to have the best tunes, but what do they sound like? A new film about the history of heavy metal highlights the so-called Devil's Interval, a musical phenomenon suppressed by the Church in the Middle Ages.
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Monday April 10, 2006
Music:
The BBC is taking a big risk with a pop Passion performed on the streets of Manchester, says Peter Stanford
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Friday March 24, 2006
Music:
Kirk Franklin talks bluntly about salvation, challenges
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Wednesday November 30, 2005
Music:
Although she remains one of the most distinctive and soulful singers to emerge in the '90s, in recent years Sinead O'Connor has been known as much for the controversies she's caused (starting with her notorious Pope-bashing appearance on "Saturday Night Live" in 1992) and the confusion over her public pronouncements (among them her statements on religion and the news that she was retiring from singing) as for her music.
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Tuesday November 29, 2005
Music:
Religion and rock have never mixed that well, but the BBC is hoping to change all that with a spectacular live televised event in Manchester this Easter.
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Saturday February 12, 2005
Music:
LONDON - Irish singer Sinead O'Connor says that after two years of retirement, she is returning to music - but not the pop scene.
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Saturday December 11, 2004
Music:
During the heyday of the Backstreet Boys, he danced his way into the hearts of millions of teenage girls across the world.
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Thursday November 25, 2004
Music:
Mention clowns and most people immediately think of Bozo or Ronald McDonald. But there's an altogether different type of clown that is growing in popularity, including here inLas Vegas. If your teenagers ever come home painted as clowns they may be associated with a group that calls itself Juggalos. They follow the music of the Insane Clown Posse, and as News 3's Gerard Ramalho reports, some think it's just the latest teenage fad, but others are convinced it's a bizarre clown cult.
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Friday May 7, 2004
Music:
The rock star, whose hits include School’s Out, is being awarded an honorary doctorate by a Christian liberal arts university.
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Monday April 19, 2004
Music:
DALLAS - (KRT) - Christian teens are stealing Jesus music.
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Thursday September 18, 2003
Music:
In December 1997, a noticeably uncomfortable Bob Dylan was being honored at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. Flanked by the President of the United States and the First Lady, Dylan looked like a man who seemed as if he had stumbled into the wrong building, the wrong room, only to find himself to be the center of attention with America’s glitterati.
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- Barry McGuire triumphed over a personal 'Eve of Destruction'
- Atlanta rappers create gospel `crunk,' prompting concern about raw hip hop in church
- Sinead O'Connor: Reborn in Reggae
- The Beatles were a Christian band
- Sinead O'Connor's quiet return
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- Madonna defends mock crucifixion
- Andrae Crouch battled racism on way to legacy in Christian music
- Manchester Passion: The Last Supper? It was a burger
- Beatles bigger than Jesus? Just a Lennon joke: Vatican paper
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