FIFTY YEARS LATER: ALL WE NEED IS LOVE!

I was 9 years old on February 9, 1964... fifty years ago yesterday. Yet, over all those decades, I can still remember the moment, sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of our black and white TV set, just a few feet away, when Ed Sullivan barked out the words: "The Beatles!" He practically did a pirouette when he announced them.

The screaming began, then the music - Paul delivering the first two words acapella: "Close your..." By the time he sung the word "eyes" and the throbbing rhythm kicked in, I was mesmerized in a way I'd never been before as a young boy, and have rarely been since.

I didn't quite know why at the time, but it felt like the world had just changed, right then and there, right before my eyes, in my very own living room, and in millions of living rooms around the country. It didn't occur to me at first that there could possibly be anybody who wasn't thrilled at the sight and sound of The Beatles, that there could be anyone not embracing the change they were announcing through their songs.

In fact, it turned out that in that particular line of reality, there would be many not embracing the change. Much tumult, social upheaval and many violent deaths, even eventually of one of The Beatles, would continue throughout the decades to come. But nonetheless, we have arrived to the day that John, Paul, George and Ringo, as part of the "first wave," heralded for those 10 years during the Sixties.

Now, we are in 5D, at the threshold of a Golden Age, a time where John Lennon's lyrics, sung in the first satellite telecast of a musical performance, now are an anthem for how we'll be living.

Love. Love. Love.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy

There's nothing you can make that can't be made
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time
It's easy

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

There's nothing you can know that isn't known
Nothing you can see that isn't shown
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be
It's easy

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

All you need is love, all together now
All you need is love, everybody
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

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   Love is all you need