Beatles – All You Need Is Love…A Happy Valentines Day!

I posted this on February 14, 2021, and every year this is the first song that comes to mind on Valentine’s Day. I then thought…enough time has gone by so I’m posting it again. Sorry to cheat but to me, it is such a Valentine’s song that I just had to.

I hope all of you have a great Valentine’s Day… let’s join the Beatles on June 25, 1967, for All You Need Is Love. There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done…

How nerve-racking this had to be even if you were a Beatle. They performed this on one of the first Satellite hookups around the world. An estimated 350 million people were watching. This performance was a rock and roll milestone…they were in front of the world.

The show was called “Our World”,  the first worldwide TV special. Broadcast in 24 countries on June 25, 1967, the show was six hours long and featured music from 6 continents, with The Beatles representing Britain. At the Beatles’ feet were members of The Rolling Stones, The Who, Cream, The Hollies, and  The Small Faces helping by singing along.

John wrote the song to be simple enough to be understood by the entire world. Simple verses and music with a slogan-type chorus. He thought Peace and Love could be understood by all. He had said: I like slogans. I like advertising. I love the telly. And when you think about it he did have some slogan songs like Power To The People and others. 

The song peaked at #1 almost everywhere and probably even in Venus and Mars in 1967.

Musically, this song is very unusual. The chorus is only one note, and the song is in a rare 7/4 tempo. In the orchestral ending, you can hear pieces of both “Greensleeves,” a Bach two-part invention (by George Martin), and Glenn Miller’s “In The Mood.” Royalties were paid to Miller for his contribution.

Just think of all of the bits of paper all of them wrote or scribbled on and threw away. John Lennon’s hand-written lyrics for this song sold for one million pounds in the summer of 2005. Lennon left them in the BBC studios after this appearance, and they were salvaged by a very smart BBC employee.

Sean Lennon: “My list of favorite things changes from day to day. I like when my dad said: ‘There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known/ Nothing you can see that isn’t shown/ Nowhere you can go that isn’t where you’re meant to be.’ It seems to be a good representation of the sort of enlightenment that came out of the ’60s.”

 

All You Need Is Love

Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love

There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done
Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung
Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game
It’s easy
Nothing you can make that can’t be made
No one you can save that can’t be saved
Nothing you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time
It’s easy

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known
Nothing you can see that isn’t shown
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be
It’s easy

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)
Yesterday
(Love is all you need)
Oh
Love is all you need
Love is all you need
Oh yeah
Love is all you need
(She love you, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(She love you, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)

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Author: Badfinger (Max)

Power Pop fan, Baseball, Beatles, Alternative music, old movies, and tv show fan. Also anything to do with pop culture in the 60s and 70s... I'm also a songwriter, bass and guitar player. Not the slightest bit interested in politics at all.

46 thoughts on “Beatles – All You Need Is Love…A Happy Valentines Day!”

      1. Barely, at that time my parents put a radio & a television in our rooms (my brother whose your age) & we chose what we wanted to listen to or watch. Mostly kids stuff on television & or comedy shows & the radio was playing a lot of ‘Bubblegum Pop’ honestly. They sat me down on one of their performances & explained who they were to me & I probably didn’t care. But, I remember & then I paid attention to the Beatles in their last year together.

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  5. a super song and shows how ground-breaking they were with that weird time signature and Lennon’s ability to go from really deep or weird messages to straight-forward simple lyrics when called for. A classic to be sure

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    2. I love the lyrics in this one…some are irrelevant some are profound and possible…some make you scratch your head. Lennon through and through.

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  8. I was 13 when that show was broadcast and even though it was a Sunday evening our parents let us watch the whole thing, though it meant being tired at school the next day. The Beatles were of course the highlight for me, but I do have an odd memory of some poor woman in Mexico being filmed live while she gave birth. Not the usual Sunday tv fare!

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      2. Ok…I might do that. I read some interview with him about his family…his real mom. That was tough. I just finished my 4th book on Jonestown by a survivor… ever since I saw Cronkite report that in 78…I’ve been interested in it.

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      3. His mom was hell on wheels! Hoping you don’t get too wrapped up in that monster. You may have heard the saying, “When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring into you.”

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      4. Yea that is what Brolin said about her. Didn’t she die in a car wreck?
        Oh yea…it should be a lesson for everyone on what not to do. The survivors stories are so interesting and how they got back into real life and readjusted.

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  14. one of the best moments in the movie Across the Universe was when All You Need Is Love is reimagined on a roof top…

    I don’t know why, but I always feel sorry for Mick and the Stones….everytime they seem to be on the verge of something, the Beatles…even now, there’ll be a Rolling Stones first tour in years, and it gets a few headlines, and then, well, the Get Back doc is aired and everyone forgets about the Rolling Stones, in past years there’s a be a new box set….I imagine people be listening and learning and enjoying the Beatles for generations to come…and may even miss the swinging sixties…

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    1. Yea they shouldn’t dominate all listening to that era because there were a lot of great songs by a lot of bands. I like The Stones a lot especially in the late sixties and early seventies. The Who are the ones that…if not for the Beatles (there it is again) would be my favorite band period. The Who got drowned out by Zeppelin during the seventies in some ways.

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