L Y R I C S

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

(John Lennon, Paul McCartney) Lead Vocal: John Lennon

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

Nothing you can know that isn't known
Nothing you can see that isn't shown
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)

(Chorus, cont...)
Yesterday (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)
Oh yeah! (Love is all you need)

She loves you, yeah yeah yeah (Love is all you need)
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah (Love is all you need)



D I S C O G R A P H Y

#1 ON THE CHARTS

#1 on all the UK charts, with three weeks as the Record Retailer 1 (July 19-August 2 1967) and 13 weeks in the Top 50.

#1 on all the USA charts, with one week as the Billboard 1 (August 19 1967) and 11 weeks in the Hot 100

RECORDED
June 14 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios, London, and June 19-26 in Studios 3, 1 and 2 at Abbey Road; the master was Take 58

RELEASED AS A SINGLE
In the UK on July 7 1967 - Parlophone R5620

In the USA on July 17 1967 - Capitol 5964

PERFORMED LIVE
....On TV but not in concert and .... One of the most celebrated pop singles ever, this anthem for love was broadcast virtually as it was recorded - live - in Our World, the first global TV programme, seen by satellite over much of the planet on June 25 1967.

John wrote 'All You Need Is Love' especially for Our World, following a brief by the BBC (who commissioned The Beatles as one of the programme's two UK representatives) to 'keep it simple so that viewers across the globe will understand'. 350 million people watched as the item closed the 'Artistic Excellence' section of the programme.

Like most Beatles singles, 'All You Need Is Love' was a 1 not only in the UK and USA but in many other countries too, such as Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, West Germany.

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