What if the Beatles were more popular than Jesus ? Our hero is firmly convinced of it and sets off in search of a new musical religion. A quirky, rock-n-roll novel
In March 1966, during an interview, John Lennon had a vision which did not win him friends « Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I'll be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now. Fifty years later, a 30-something musician, mystic artist, crusading soul armed with a synthetiser, hears voices it is not the Church, in ruins, that must be repared, but music It is time to put the lost sheep of pop out to pasture and to create a new music, which will reconcile pop and religion. Between farcical Bildungsroman of a young modern man and 'gonzo' style portraits of contemporary musicians.
Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld is 33 years old. Music critic, he is also a novelist, notably author of Club des vieux gar ons (2017).
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