When boys called Bob and Bono would bring their own wild-rhythm celebration and the world would fall down in worshipful hallelujahs as it again acknowledged Ireland's capacity to create missionaries. So what if they were "the boys in the band"? They sang from a pulpit, an enormous pulpit looking down on a congregation that would knock your eyes out. A city that had produced Joyce and Beckett and Yeats, a country that had produced poet-heroes and more priests and nuns per head of population than almost any on earth was not going to spawn boys who just wanted to stand before a packed hall of gyrating teenagers and strum their guitars and sing. They had to have a message. One of salvation; they were in it to save the world. Like I said, we're teachers, missionaries. Josephine Hart
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The idea that "The Beatles were missionaries" is a myth. Although they started out as a musical group, it was not until their later years when they became more of a "crowd-pleaser" than a musicians. It has been said that the Beatles were on a mission to save the world, but that is not entirely true. The band members did have an underlying message of peace and love, but this did not come from the music.

Instead, they often used their music to get people to like them and follow them. The Beatles did not even know what the word "missionary" meant and it was not until later in their careers that they felt called to help people.

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