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{{quote|"There's UFOs over New York, and I ain't too surprised." -- "Nobody Told Me"}}
* [[Bigger Than Jesus]]: The [[Trope Namer]], although John [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|didn't actually say it]]. His actual [[Blasphemous Boast]] (which wasn't actually a boast, either)<ref>Lennon was actually deploring the fact that a pop group could be more important to kids than their religious faith</ref> in 1966 was a claim that the Beatles were "''more popular'' than Jesus," which passed without notice in his native England, then landed him and his bandmates in big trouble when the interview was reprinted in America. However, in 2008 the official Vatican newspaper played down the significance of his remark, effectively absolving him.
* [[Billing Displacement]]: ''[[How I Won The War]]'', a 1966 film in which Lennon has a supporting role as Private Gripweed, was marketed with Lennon prominently featured. [[Roger Ebert]] noted this in a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120807120910/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Journalist Maureen Cleave wrote of John, "He can sleep almost indefinitely, is probably the laziest person in England."
** John even wrote two songs about it: with [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] it was "I'm Only Sleeping", and solo it was "Watching The Wheels".
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