The future of The Beatles was threatened when in 1966 member John Lennon said, “We’re more popular than Jesus now.” This controversial remark was plastered across all mass media and set off “protests, death threats and the end to the Beatles’ touring career” (Rolling Stone 2016). Datebook, an American teen magazine, reprinted Lennon’s “more popular than Jesus now” remark and it led to a “Beatle boycott.” Families and members of the Christian church burned Beatles records and put on protests to help prevent others from purchasing or listening to any Beatles music. Lennon explained what he meant and apologized to those who took it the wrong way and was quoted five months later saying, “If I’d said, ‘Television is more popular than Jesus,’ I
