Main Writer: Lennon Recorded: June 14, 19, 23, 24 and 25, 1967 Released: July 17, 1967 11 weeks; no. 1
Flush with artistic activity afterwards finishing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles went beeline aback to work. When they were arrive to arise on the Our World TV affairs - a two-hour appearance of all-embracing performers that would be advertisement reside in 24 countries on June 25th, 1967 - they absitively to actualize an elaborately orchestrated new track, "All You Need Is Love."
"[Beatles administrator Brian Epstein] al of a sudden whirled in and said that we were to represent Britain in a round-the-world hookup," said George Martin. "We had beneath than two weeks to get it together." Lennon took the last-minute appeal in stride: "Oh, God, is it that close?" he said a few canicule afore the telecast. "I accept we'd bigger address something." (McCartney aswell wrote a accessible best for the break - a lot of acceptable the music-hall carol "Your Mother Should Know," but it was accessible which song was added appropriate.)
The Beatles crafted a accent clue in the flat advanced (which included Harrison arena violin for the aboriginal time and Lennon on harpsichord) but they sang their vocals reside on the show, accompanied by an orchestra and a choir that included Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Donovan and Keith Moon. Harrison's guitar abandoned was aswell live; he hand-painted his Stratocaster in consciousness-expanding colors for the occasion. Martin's adjustment reflected the event's all-embracing spirit: The addition was a atom of "La Marseillaise," the French civic anthem, while the coda included $.25 of Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 2," "Greensleeves," Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" - and even an improvised choir of "She Loves You."
The capital allotment of the song was deceptively simple. "John has an amazing affair with his timing," Harrison told Rolling Stone. "'All You Need Is Love' array of skips beats out and changes from 3/4 to 4/4 all the time, in and out of anniversary other." The lyrics accepted a claiming for McCartney. "The choir is simple, but the ballad ["Nothing you can do/But you can apprentice how to be you in time/It's easy"] is absolutely complex," he said. "I never absolutely accepted it."
"All You Need Is Love" was the aboriginal of Lennon's songs with a appellation that could accept been accounting on Madison Avenue (like the after "Give Peace a Chance" and "Power to the People"). "I like slogans," he said. "I like advertising. I adulation the telly."
Appears On: Magical Mystery Tour
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