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In August 1966, five months after Cleave's article appeared in the Evening Standard, an American teen magazine, Datebook, printed Lennon's quote about Christianity on its front cover.[8][9][10] There was an immediate response, starting with an announcement by two radio stations in Alabama and Texas that they had banned Beatles' music from their playlists.WAQY DJ, Tommy Charles: "We just felt it was so absurd and sacrilegious that something ought to be done to show them that they can't get away with this sort of thing". Around two dozen other stations followed suit with similar announcements. Some stations in the South went further, organising demonstrations with bonfires, drawing hordes of teenagers to publicly burn their Beatles' records and other memorabilia.
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2 comments:
Those silly teenagers! Instead of burning their Beatle merchandise, they should have sold its on eBay!
Seriously though, the people who opposed the Beatles over John Lennon's comments couldn't have been more wrong. He never said the Beatles were bigger or better than Jesus Christ, but that's the way it was spun. I wonder how John's comments would have played out if Fox "News" and right-wing talk radio existed back then. The aftermath may have been even uglier than it already was.
Malcolm - If there had been a Fox News then we would all be living like the movie, Idiocracy:)
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