Why I've turned to God at 70, by 改革（する）d Ringo Starr... that's 44 years after Lennon said the Beatles were bigger than Jesus
John Lennon 原因（となる）d a 世界的な 嵐／襲撃する by （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus.
Now, more than four １０年間s on, it seems his former bandmate Ringo Starr has 定評のある a humbler place in the grand 計画／陰謀 of things.
The drummer says he has 設立する God - after taking a long and winding road to enlightenment.
Enjoying life: Ringo Starr at this week's Grammy Awards with wife Barbara Bach
He 認める he lost his way when he was younger, both as a Beatle 実験ing with マリファナ and LSD and afterwards when he 苦しむd alcohol and コカイン problems in the late 1970s.
But the musician, who has since become teetotal and やめる his 60-a-day cigarette habit, says that 宗教 now plays an important 役割 in his life.
Starr, who turns 70 later this year, said: 'I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to 扱う life. 存在 on this 追求（する），探索（する） for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
'For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that. I think the search has been on since the 1960s.
'I stepped off the path there for many years and 設立する my way 支援する の上に it, thank God.' Starr was speaking at an event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.
'More popular than Jesus': Ringo Starr, 最高の，を越す 権利, with fellow Beatles' bandmates Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison in 1965
It was in 1966 that his late bandmate John Lennon 発表するd that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ.
In an interview with the London Evening 基準, Lennon - who was 殺人d in 1980 - said: 'Christianity will go. It will 消える and 縮む. I needn't argue with that. I'm 権利 and I will be 証明するd 権利.
Peace man: Ringo pictured with his wife, says now that he's nearly 70, life's a bit easier
'We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first - 激しく揺する and roll or Christianity-Jesus was all 権利 but his disciples were 厚い and ordinary. It's them 新たな展開ing it that 廃虚s it for me.'
When a U.S. magazine reprinted some of the interview, 抗議するs b
roke out in the Staes and Beatles 記録，記録的な／記録するs were 公然と 燃やすd.
The 抗議するs then spread to other countries, 含むing Mexico, South Africa and Spain.
The Fab Four's 1966 小旅行する was their last and they 分裂（する） in 1970.
In his 最新の interview Starr - a vegetarian who is married to former 社債 girl Barbara Bach and now 分裂（する）s his time between homes in Los Angeles, London and Monaco - also told how he finds it far easier to を取り引きする life now he is approaching his 70th birthday in July.
He said: 'Seventy's not as big as 40 was. Forty was "Oh, God, 40!"
'There's that damn song, Life Begins at 40. No, it's not so big any more. I am nearly 70, and I'd love to be nearly 40, but that's never going to happen.
'I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to 扱う life.'
Starr is not the first Sixties music icon to embrace 宗教.
In 1978, （頭が）ひょいと動く Dylan became a bornagain Christian, but by 1983 this period appeared to end and the singer 報道によれば 逆戻りするd to his roots in Judaism.
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