This year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of commencement of hostilities against the United States music scene by British musicians.

The most well known of all the English infantry battalions to attack the US were known as “The Beatles,” presumably named after their penchant for blitzkrieg fighting tactics. The Beatles made their debut on the American battlefield in 1964 on The Ed Sullivan Show with their hit “I Want to Hold Your Hand Grenade” (Ed Sullivan, of course, was shot.) They went on to become responsible for “Get Back– He’s got a gun!,” “Helter Skelter, Run For Shelter,” the nuclear-missile carrying “Yellow Submarine,” and - ofcourse - “Happiness is a Warm Gun.”

In the course of researching this article, we had the opportunity to sit down with the famous Mick Jagger of the British Invasion’s “Rolling Stones” squadron:

But not all memories of the invasion were fond. Two star general Ringo Starr recalls, “It wasn’t all that easy, you know. When we landed at Normandy, KY, we had the Beach Boys to deal with, of course, and then as we pushed inland we encountered a fierce Guerilla resistance group that called themselves ‘The Monkees.’ We experienced heavy casualties. Then there was Field Marshal James Marshal Hendrix to contend with, who made use of that Airborne neurotoxin agent, his so called ‘Purple Haze.’ I’ll tell you something, the wind cried Mary for years after that.”