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‘More popular than Jesus’: the Beatles and the religious far right

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Mark Sullivan
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Probably the most famous photograph of the entire anti-rock movement features record burnings held in August 1966. A crowd of elementary school-age children and a clean-cut disc jockey stand before a bonfire; one grinning boy presents a copy of Meet the Beatles to the camera prior to tossing it on the flames. This particular bonfire was organised by radio staion WAYX in Waycross, Georgia, but it was only one of many in response to comments made by John Lennon.

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Popular Music , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , October 1987 , pp. 313 - 326
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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