The Beatles are Coming!

It was 50 years ago Sunday that the British Invasion began. The invasion more commonly known as Beatlemania. As the Beatles touched down for the first time in the U.S. who knew they would transform the global music scene and leave a lasting imprint on not only the music industry but our culture as well?

Feb.9, 1964 marks the day fifty years ago that The Beatles arrived on the scene with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show which they opened and closed and was estimated to have been seen by a record-breaking 73 million viewers. Their pop "I Want to Hold Your Hand" had just clinched the No. 1 position on the charts and after the television appearance, John, Paul, George and Ringo became The Fab Four. Their songs carrying powerful ideas of peace, love , imagination and hope evoked creativity and liberation that outperformed the Soviet propaganda and contributed to breaking walls in the minds of millions, thus making a strong impact on human history.

The Beatles will be saluted with a TV special on its 50th anniversary this weekend. The Recording Academy has lined up a bunch of artists to pay tribute to the monumental event.The special, 'The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles,' will air Sunday Feb.9 even though the event taped on Jan. 27, 2014, the day after the 56th annual Grammy Awards.

The first performances for the night have been announced. Scheduled to perform are four-time GRAMMY winner Annie Lennox and GRAMMY winner Dave Stewart reuniting as Eurythmics for one night only; 14-time GRAMMY winner Alicia Keys with nine-time GRAMMY winner John Legend; along with Maroon 5, John Mayer and Keith Urban. The two-hour program will include even more performers covering the same songs the Beatles played on that night in 1964. The show will also feature covers of other Beatles songs spanning their entire career, as well as clips from the original Sullivan broadcast. One things for sure "Across The Universe" everyone will be tuning in for this historic night.