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The successful recordings for “Sgt. Pepper” just behind, the Beatles immediately started new creative flights. When they received the invitation to take part in the television show “Our World” -a two -hour broadcast with an international line -up that was simultaneously broadcast on 24 countries on June 25th -they immediately went to work. Your contribution to the show should be a new, elaborately orchestrated song called “All You Need is Love”.
“Brian Epstein came to the studio excitedly. And explained that we would represent England in this global TV program,” recalls George Martin. “And that we didn’t even have two weeks.” Lennon could not be disturbed. “My god, is it really so tight?” He joked a few days before the broadcast. “Then it is probably time for us to start writing.”
Complicated change of pace
The Beatles had recorded a basic track in the studio. But the vocals were sung live during the broadcast. The orchestra and a choir was also live. Which included Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Donovan and Keith Moon. Martin’s arrangement should take into account the international character of the event. He had installed a snippet of the “Marseillaise” in the introduction, while Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 2”, the traditional “Greensleeves”, Glenn Millers “In The Mood” and even the chorus of “She Loves You” were smuggled into the final.
The main part of the song, on the other hand, was only simple at first glance. “John really has a feel for original speeding speed,” Harrison told Rolling Stone. “With, all you need is love ‘it constantly wipes between 3/4 and 4/4 brackets. Whereby some beats are simply left out.”
The text also prepared McCartney a little headache. “The chorus is not a problem. But the line ‘Nothing you can do/ but you can learn how to be you in time/ it’s easy is. I never really understood it.”
With “All You Need Is Love”, Lennon delivered a song for the first time, the title of which was so grippy that he could also have come from a slogan-sufficient advertising guru. “I like slogans,” said Lennon. “I like advertising. I like television.”