“The Beatles joked about being bigger than Jesus” (I’m a Swiftie, but the staggering size of the Eras tour has left me feeling alienated, 13 July)? Not quite. One Beatle, John Lennon, during a wide-ranging interview with Maureen Cleave, discussed the decline of Christianity. He compared this to the rise in fame of the Beatles, who Lennon stated were “more popular than Jesus now”. This was a statement of opinion, was probably factually correct, and was in no sense a joke.
Cherry Weston
Wolverhampton
• Rows between spouses over who is responsible for losing things (Letters, 12 July) are nothing new. On 6 January 1663, Samuel Pepys wrote that he was “vexed at my wife’s neglect in leaving of her scarf, waistcoat, and night-dressings in the coach … though, I confess, she did give them to me to look after, yet it was her fault not to see that I did take them out of the coach.”
Karl Sabbagh
Defford, Worcestershire
