…that Sgt. Pepper got the band to conquer America. I was a wee bit too young to appreciate the arrival of The Beatles and don’t recall seeing them on those initial Ed Sullivan shows, but I do remember clearly reading in our local newspaper about “Beatlemania” riots across Britain and Sweden ahead of their arrival.

The NY Daily News has a wonderful commemorative online section commemorating The Beatles arrival in America and that crazy two weeks that changed the face of popular music in America forever. Out went surf music, Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound”, and Elvis, and in came the British Invasion that changed everything from pop music to pop culture. Things would never be the same again.

Hard to believe – fifty years ago, this weekend. I’m getting old.