True Bartman, but 'some people' say lots of things..
I suppose as an icon of the certain era, namely the "happy 60's", an entity called the Beatles might have something to say in the contest of the biggest icon of all times against ELvis the Pelvis, the biggest and the most well-known entertainer of the 20th Century, but any individual member, the saint John included, of that pop pre-Abba pop group, are far behind that sort of iconic status.. Just ask people; everybody, I mean everybody knows the name Elvis and the figure represented by that name, like they know Chaplin and Marilyn, but in the case of Lennon, there will be more answers like "was he one of the Beatles?"..
Heh, I never thought I will be in the middle of the contest of who's bigger and by which criteria (that's not very clear
), Lennon or Elvis; namely, neither is not very big favorite of mine... well, in that sense is much easier to be objective..
But what makes John Lennon, despite selling more records and being dead, to be 'bigger' than, let's say, Bob Dylan, other 'generally recognized true musical hero, not any-goddamn-madonna-or-michael jackson'? More well-known? influental? More iconic? More mythical? Better song-writer?
I think Dylan is better and bigger
- Doxa