People who write this kind of thing need to learn how to read a calendar andcalculate dates before they hurt themselves.In 1966 the bulk of the Baby Boom generation was still in elementary school orjust starting junior high middle school. A significant portion was evenyounger than that ranging all the way down to preschool age. They would nothave owned Beatles records yet because at the time they were still buyingbubble gum baseball cards and penny candy if they even had any money at all.All the OP would have had to do was to look at the ages of the people mostlyparents who took part in those preplanned demonstrations and calculated backto when they would have been born to realize that the record burners werelargely made up of people who were born between WWI and WWII. They were from acohort that had always looked askance at efforts to break out of the rigidconformity of the Joe McCarthy 1950s and they had always disdained anyone whorepresented a break from that mold. They especially hated the Beatles becausethat group was by far the most popular and they had galvanized and symbolizedthe social changes that so horrified this age group.The people mainly in the South who had tuned into Rev. Daniel Wildmonu2019sbroadcasted sermon and participated in the carefully orchestrated andstrenuously publicized u201cspontaneousu201d demonstrations in a few communities thatengaged in elaborately staged bonfires in which a few LPs and 45s werescorched were from the same segment of society that had massively resisted allof the other tectonic shifts in the social landscape that had been occurringin America since the end of the world war and especially since the advent ofthe civil rights movement.The folks who had thrown black people out of lunch counters and out of thefrontmost sections of the buses who had beat up the Freedom Riders who hadbarred the steps to the schoolhouses and bombed the churches and shot at thevoter registration volunteers and who had burned Beatles records in Rev.Wildmonu2019s demonstrations in 1966 were not members of the Baby Boomgeneration. And while most of the people who did do those things back in the1950s and 60s are not around anymore their ideology survived and has beenpassed down to new groups who wear red baseball hats and attend big rallieswhere they hear the very same messages repackaged for the 21st century.