Author delves into Beatles' religious influences and insights | ajc.com

Author delves into Beatles' religious influences and insights | ajc.com: "Rock music writer Steve Turner grew up in a Christian home in Daventry, England. And like other teenagers who came of age in the 1960s, Turner was a huge Beatles fan.

'At that time, Christians weren't too keen on rock 'n' roll music, so people in the church generally weren't too keen on the Beatles,' Turner says in a phone call from London.

'Yet, after a few years, the Beatles became interested in religious topics, so there was this interplay between religion and rock music that I became interested in.'

Forty years after John Lennon made his infamous and often misunderstood comment that the Beatles were 'more popular than Jesus' %u2014- spawning ban-the-Beatles protests %u2014- Turner explores the Fab Four's spiritual quest in his latest book, 'The Gospel According to the Beatles' (Westminster John Knox Press, $19.95)."