THE Beatles and Michael Jackson were spied on by the FBI - in case they rocked national security.
Files declassified yesterday show US agents also took an interest in a host of other stars, including stadium band Kiss.
A dossier was opened on crooner Frank Sinatra over Mafia pals and alleged communist leanings. Squeaky-clean John Denver was also suspected of Mob links.
Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead were the subject of drug probes, while Elvis appears in the files as a victim of extortion bids.
Bizarrely, Kentucky Fried Chicken king Colonel Sanders was also scrutinised - after he asked FBI supremo John Edgar Hoover for his autograph.
The Beatles
THE FBI feared the Fab Four would undermine America amid the Beatlemania of the 1960s.
John Lennon is described as a "radically orientated" druggie. Fury at him and Yoko Ono posing nude for an album takes up 200 pages.
(thesun)
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