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To be perfectly accurate though, you'd have to search google's cached pages from back in.... whatever year that was. The Beatles aren't bigger than Jesus right now, but they very well may have been.
I took the liberty of performing a statistical regression on the following search volume data, all the way back through the 60's.
According to my results, the Beatles would have been more popular than Jesus for most of the 60's (except for a 14 month period between '66 and '67). The margin of error for the regression analysis is 1245%