Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969 he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music writing drawings on film and in interviews.