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The Beatles' 1966 US tour
The Beatles staged their third concert tour of America in August 1966, and it was the last commercial tour they would ever undertake. Lasting a total of nineteen performances, with seventeen shows in American venues and two in Canada (Toronto), it was plagued with backlash regarding the controversy of John Lennon's remarks about Christianity, death threats, and the band's own dissatisfaction with the noise levels and their ability to perform live. Although it was a commercial success, ticket sales had noticeably declined in number. After the tour, they would become a studio band and focused exclusively on record production.
==The "More popular than Jesus" controversy==
(詳細はMaureen Cleave interviewed John Lennon and the rest of the Beatles as part of a ''London Evening Standard'' cover story on the subject of "How Does a Beatle Live?". During the Lennon interview at Kenwood, Cleave noted Lennon's interest in Christianity and religions, to which he replied: Although the article went largely unnoticed in the United Kingdom, the American magazine ''Datebook'' printed the quote containing Lennon's words on the front cover of its August issue.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Beatles Are Bigger than WHO? )〕
Fearful of the possibility that protesters or radicals would try to kill them for their supposed "anti-Christ" stance, the group's manager Brian Epstein contemplated canceling the tour altogether.〔Gould (2008), pp. 346–7.〕 However, during the tour's stop in Chicago, he arranged for a press conference to address the controversy and for Lennon to explain himself. Lennon stated that he was only commenting on the decline among churchgoers, that he made a mistake in using the Beatles' following in comparison with that of organized religion, and that he "never meant it as a lousy anti-religious thing". Despite this explanation, Lennon continued to be asked about the topic in subsequent press conferences throughout the American tour, often visibly exasperating not only him, but his band mates as well.
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