I remember an interview with B B King. In the early 1960's blues musicians didn't do well, the young black people listened to Motown/Stax and most white folks hadn't even heard about it. He told a story about him reading an interview in Time or Life in 1964 with the Beatles. Towards the end the band members where asked about their musical influences. Lennon mentioned a number of black blues musicians, one of them B B King. As B B said in the interview: 'After that their have been no problems.'