A well-known one:
On March 4th, 1966, John Lennon had an in-depth interview with a worker from London Evening Standard and an excerpt from the interview, with attention from the media, caused an uproar for Christians around the world. The excerpt stated: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his diciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me." -John Lennon, 1966. Catholics and Christians around the world were enraged with this statement. By burning Beatle items; books, albums, pictures and concert tickets, they protested Lennon's controversial statement. The press enflated the statement to make Lennon out to be what he was eventually called; an "anti-christ". Lennon eventually apologized for his remarks but he continued to rationalize his statement in order to make his point clear. What he meant by the statement was the the Beatles had gotton more popular than Christianity, that the youth was more interested in their music than the church. While he was making a comparision, he later said "I should have said 'television was more popular than Jesus', then I might have got away with it"
And from The Ballad Of John And Yoko:
"Christ! You know it ain't easy."