As much as we enjoy handing out roses, the Hub’s opinion writers this week earned a raspberry for our editorial about aging Beatle Paul McCartney. On Tuesday, we recalled how McCartney’s performance at halftime of Super Bowl XXXIX almost came as a relief, given the uproar after last year’s “wardrobe malfunction.”

The curious thing about McCartney’s wholesome halftime show is that 40 years earlier, he and the Beatles were far more shocking than the Janet Jacksons of today.

We wrote: “By the time Beatlemania reached its climax, the band was as controversial as any in the contemporary music scene. Rock ‘N’ Roll fans buried drugged-out entertainers like Frank Morrison, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, but they nearly worshipped the Beatles.”

More than one reader must have wondered what we were smoking when we mistakenly listed Nebraska’s former governor, Frank Morrison, among the most notorious rockers of the ’60s.

Frank Morrison certainly exuded magnetism, but it’s hard to imagine the late statesman storming across a stage in long hair, bellbottom jeans and tie-died shirt. The man who gave Nebraskans the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument probably never smashed an electric guitar.

The rocker we had in mind was not Frank Morrison, but rather, Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors.

For that mistake, we apologize. We hope readers now can put the Morrison gaffe to rest. In the words of Paul McCartney, “Let it be, let it be.... ”