All You Need Is Love
June 30, 1967
All You Need Is Love (German: Everything you love ' is need ) from 1967 is the title of one of the most famous songs of the British rock band The Beatles.
Genesis
As authors Lennon / McCartney are given. In fact originate verse and chorus of John Lennon, the idea of Coda goes back to the Beatles' music producer George Martin. The song is in the key of G major and has a tempo of about 104 bpm, which corresponds to an Allegretto. During the chorus consists of seven 4/4-Takten and a final 2/4-cycle, the verse starts with the two changes of a 4/4-time to a 3/4-time followed by three 4/4-Takten and a final 3/4-time. Since you can read the change as 7/4-Takte is All You Need Is Love one of the few pop songs in this time signature ( other prominent examples are Money by Pink Floyd and Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel ). In addition, musical styles such as Exclamatio or Ekphonesis be used.
On May 18, 1967, the Beatles were given by the BBC commissioned to compose a song for the television show Our World. The show was the first worldwide broadcast live television production, which was broadcast on June 25, 1967 live in 31 countries and seen by over 400 million viewers. During the event, All You Need Is Love was played live, some of the instrumentation was playback.
This playback was created on 14 June 1967 - different than usual - at London's Olympic Studios. There a total of 33 takes of All You Need Is Love was recorded in Studio 1 of which was Take 10 selected. All You Need Is Love was within one month between application of the BBC and the first recording session and represented perfectly the atmosphere of the Summer of Love in 1967. Simultaneously, the Beatles also held on the general guideline of the BBC, just to make the composition, so that the global audience could understand them even without much knowledge of English. Even the intro with the French national anthem La Marseillaise attracted the attention of the listener and stressed the international nature of the song and the television show. When playback play John Lennon (harpsichord ), Paul McCartney ( bass) and George Harrison (violin improvisation ). Producer George Martin was supported by the at Olympic Studios belonging Eddie Kramer (first sound engineer ) and George Chkiantz (second engineer ). The lead vocals and background vocals were added by overdubbing on June 19, 1967 in Olympic Studios. On June 23, 1967 for the first time entered the hastily assembled orchestra ( brass and violin section ) Abbey Road Studios.
In Studio 1 at Abbey Road Studios in addition to the Beatles, the formally dressed thirteen members of the orchestra ( two tenor saxophones, two trombones, two trumpeters, four violins, two cellos and an accordion ) were present; also guests who sang along and applauded along, including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (both Rolling Stones ), Keith Moon ( Who), Eric Clapton ( Cream), Graham Nash ( Hollies ) and Marianne Faithfull. After several exercises Finally Take 58 was selected for the live broadcast. In addition to the Marseillaise was producer George Martin - fitting to the universal message of the play - Install in the introductory Vorstrophe and in the coda musical quotations. In the coda are the unusually long fade-out the eighth Two-Part Invention ( BWV 779 ) by Johann Sebastian Bach, the English folk song Greensleeves, Glenn Miller's In the Mood and hooks from the Beatles plays She Loves You, Yesterday and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band hear.
Publication and success
The single was released in Germany on June 30, 1967 ( UK: July 7, 1967, USA: July 17, 1967) along with the Beatles composition Baby You're a Rich Man as a B-side. The plate led for three weeks to the UK charts and became the fourteenth number -one hit of the Beatles in the U.S., where she stood for a week on rank one. Overall, he reached the first rank of the respective charts in ten countries. The single sold 500,000 copies in the UK alone, more than three million singles have been sold worldwide.
On November 27, 1967 All You Need Is Love was released in the U.S. Beatles album Magical Mystery Tour. The song is also featured on the soundtrack to the animated film Yellow Submarine and on the so-called Blue album.
John Lennon's handwritten original of All You Need Is Love was ( about 1.25 million U.S. dollars) at auction in July 2005 for a price of 600,000 pounds in London.
Cover versions
The synth - pop band New music released in 1982 on their album Warp a cover version of All You Need Is Love, which is held consistently in 4/4-time. In the coda, there is an electric piano improvisation in which, among other things, a few bars of Greensleeves are played as in the original. The band Echo & The Bunnymen published on a CD- version of their 1984 first published album Ocean Rain also a cover version of All You Need Is Love, in the coda quotes singer Ian McCulloch different from the original, among other songs by James Brown and Bob Dylan.