Upper Semicontinuity of Spectral Radius

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Let X be an Banach Algebra. Suppose $M_n\rightarrow M$ in norm topology. Show that lim sup$\sigma(M_n)\le \sigma(M)$.

By a theorem of Gelfand, $\sigma(M)=lim_{k\rightarrow\infty} |M^k|^{\frac{1}{k}}$. Do I need to use this formula?