♫ All You Need Is Love ♫ (Redux)

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Okay, okay … so another redux, and one I played just over a year ago (July 2022) but I was thinking of playing Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction” and then thought maybe it would be better to play something with a more upbeat message … we have enough negativity just reading the daily news!  This, then, from the first time I posted this song in 2019 …

Yesterday, I re-blogged David Prosser’s post about a philosophy of humanity called Ubuntu.  A short time later, a fellow-blogger asked me to look at her post, and this video was on it.  The connection between this song and David’s post struck me almost like a lightening bolt, and I knew I had my music post for tonight.

The original goal of this song was to combine the love of all nations displaying the possibility of hope and peace as a common denominator in the world.  This was played at Party at the Palace, a British music concert and celebration held in London in 2002.  Artists, including Paul McCartney, Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, Tony Bennett, Ozzy Osbourne, Queen, and many more contributed to this extravaganza.  The song is originally a Beatles’ classic that in and of itself is quite meaningful …

The Beatles played this for the first time on the “Our World” project, 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.

The concept of the song was born out of a request to bring a song that was going to be understood by people of all nations. The writing began in late May of 1967, with John and Paul working on separate songs. It was decided that John’s “All You Need Is Love” was the better choice because of its easy to understand message of love and peace. The song was easy to play, the words easy to remember and it encompassed the feeling of the world’s youth during that period.

Joining in 2002 at the Buckingham Palace Garden, the stars of the generation gather to spread the message of hope, peace and unity to London, England.

Ubuntu … the philosophy that we are all connected, the idea of humanity, and this song about love … put it together, and then ask yourself what is keeping us from living in this world?

Last time I played this (last year) Clive added the following clip on the making of this video that I thought well worth including here tonight …

And now, on to the song …

All You Need Is Love
The Beatles, et al

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)

Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul Mccartney
All You Need Is Love lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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32 thoughts on “♫ All You Need Is Love ♫ (Redux)”

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  3. A wonderful classic song and one that needs repeated to help remind us how much better it is to love than to hate!!
    Hugs and love, my friend! I am sure Betsy loves and would approve of this song 🎵 as well! 😉

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  5. This is such a classic!

    I know you love both Beatles and Dolly Parton. Did you hear Dolly recorded a cover of Let It Be and it features Ringo and Paul on it? It sounds great.

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  6. Jill, indeed they made it simple to be understood by many. It is not their best song, but that was not its purpose. I remember Mick Jaggar looking on along with a who’s who of British stars. Keith

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  8. Ignore the negatives! This is still a classic pop song, created for a groundbreaking worldwide television event. Taken in context it did exactly what it set out to do, and I can still remember watching in awe as various countries gave us their contributions. Link ups like this had never happened before. I don’t recall much of it now, but the lady in Mexico giving birth still stands out as a memory 😉

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        • Twice in one thread, what are the odds? That is, I think I disagree. Ace and I walk everyday so we have a cadre of fellow travelers one of which is a golfer with a heavy English accent. He sees us a little ascance because one time we were with him when another cadre dog/human entered the field where he was practicing his five iron. He took umbrage as I was not able to explain the boisterous laughter after his exclamation “He’s playing with me balls”(it was the accent) Asleep yet? Anyway yesterday we ran into him again and to his ask I replied “Great” to with “What does that mean?” came back leading to a downward spiraling conversation with me trying to explain great. Now that all are asleep and I can throw shade on Jill’s great mind and your good as. When you awake, All you need is love Downtown!

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  10. In past comments I have never addressd the Ubuntu connection, because that has been my philodlphy for 50 years and more. And it does not just apply tohumans, it applues to all living beings. We are all part of the thing we call LIFE thst most people tske gor granted, as if it were just a meaningless word. To me, life is the most important thing in the world. Without it, there us abdolutely nothing else. Not even love.

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  11. I was only allowed to view this post today, so I am sorry to say that I always thought this was a dreary and overly-repetitive song. Like many Beatles songs, I think it got attention because it was by The Beatles. I cannot imagine a record company releasing it by anyone else if they hadn’t done it first.
    Best wishes, Pete.

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