All you need is ...

The (Pascagoula) Mississippi Press

Has it been 40 years? As the Beatles said it so long ago: "Yeah, yeah, yeah." It has indeed been four decades since an army of mop-topped bands came to America: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Dave Clark Five, The Who and on and on and on.

Life was never much the same after that. Their music, their clothes, their hairstyles. It was the imported American Cultural Revolution, with the good and bad that came with it. ...

And the music remains. ... And it must be remembered that a good many of those early British rockers and their followers ... paid homage to the great Delta blues legends of Mississippi: Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King to name three.

So in a way, Mississippi music started the invasion. And looking back, especially in the wake of this year's spittoon called the Super Bowl halftime, it wasn't so revolutionary, this simple message of four working-class lads from Liverpool: All you need is love.