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Behold the mystery of John Lennon<\/a>: purveyor of peace, love, and drunken disorder, an avant-garde radical with a keen eye on the charts, a bespectacled puzzle who only gets more enigmatic over four decades on from his death.<\/p>\n There are many great ironies to the man, but one notable example is that he quite rightly decreed that The Beatles were \u201cmore popular\u201d than Jesus at one point, but also worried about his star waning thereafter. It seemed self-evident that he was in the history books as a pop culture hero to the world, but to Lennon, his position was always perilous.<\/p>\n You might imagine that he wouldn\u2019t care about such trappings, but when Elliot Mintz became his friend in the 1970s, he recalled the Liverpudlian flying off the handle about what he saw as The Rolling Stones taking an undeserved lead over the Fab Four in the league of critical praise.<\/p>\n \u201cHe felt the Rolling Stones got the kind of adulation and respect that \u2018The Mop Tops\u2019 didn\u2019t, and that the Stones were perceived as the revolutionaries because they came forward with \u2018Street Fighting Man\u2019 as opposed to \u2018I Want To Hold Your Hand\u2019,\u201d Mintz told Spin<\/a>.<\/p>\n He was pained by this perceived softness on his part, particularly considering Ian Anderson claimed, \u201cLennon was probably the only one who\u2019d be handy in a fight\u2026 Mick Jagger always looked too self-conscious to be considered a tough guy; he looked like he\u2019d fall over if you blew on him.\u201d<\/p>\n