All you need is love by the beatles (cover)
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Channel: The Eternal Dreamers · 2017 · Music
All you need is love by the beatles (cover) Performed by Sebby Woldt of The Eternal Dreamers https://www.facebook.com/TheEternalDreamers https://www.3dreamersrecords.com/ Star Wars - A New Baroque now on itunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/star-wars-a-new-baroque/id1151963155 "All You Need Is Love" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in July 1967. It was written by John Lennon[2] and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The Beatles performed the song over a pre-recorded backing track as Britain's contribution to Our World, the first live global television link. Watched by over 400 million in 25 countries, the programme was broadcast via satellite on 25 June 1967.[3] The song captured the utopian sentiments of the Summer of Love era and topped singles charts in Britain, the United States and many other countries. "All You Need Is Love" was later included on the US Magical Mystery Tour album. It also appears in a sequence in the Beatles' 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine and on the accompanying soundtrack album. For Our World, the Beatles were asked to provide a song with a message that could be easily understood by everyone.[4] The band undertook the assignment at a time when they were committed to two film projects:[5] a planned television special, Magical Mystery Tour; and the animated feature Yellow Submarine, for which they were contractually obliged to United Artists to supply four new recordings.[6] "All You Need Is Love" was selected for Our World for its contemporary social significance over the Paul McCartney-written "Your Mother Should Know".[7][nb 1] In a statement to Melody Maker magazine, Brian Epstein, the band's manager, said of "All You Need Is Love": "It was an inspired song and they really wanted to give the world a message. The nice thing about it is that it cannot be misinterpreted. It is a clear message saying that love is everything."[9] Lennon later attributed the song's simple lyrical statements to his liking of slogans and television advertising. He also likened the song to a propaganda piece, adding: "I'm a revolutionary artist. My art is dedicated to change."[10] Author Mark Hertsgaard views it as the Beatles' "most political song yet" up to 1967 and the origins of Lennon's posthumous standing as a "humanitarian hero".[11] In the book The Beatles Anthology, McCartney and George Harrison say they were unsure whether "All You Need Is Love" was written for Our World, while Ringo Starr and George Martin, the Beatles' producer, assert that it was. McCartney said: "It was certainly tailored to [the broadcast] once we had it. But I've got a feeling it was just one of John's songs that was coming anyway."[12] The song starts with the intro to the French national anthem, "La Marseillaise", and contains elements from Glenn Miller's 1939 hit "In the Mood", as well as elements from Wayne Shanklin's 1958 hit "Chanson D'Amour". "All You Need Is Love" is notable for its asymmetric time signature and complex changes.[13] The main verse pattern contains a total of 29 beats, split into two 7/4 measures, a single bar of 8/4, followed by a one bar return of 7/4 before repeating the pattern. The chorus, however, maintains a steady 4/4 beat with the exception of the last bar of 6/4 (on the lyric "love is all you need"). The prominent cello line draws attention to this departure from pop-single normality, although it was not the first time that the Beatles had experimented with varied meter within a single song: "We Can Work It Out" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" are other examples. The song is in the key of G and the verse opens (on "There's nothing you can do") with a G chord and D melody note, the chords shifting in a I–V–vi chord progression while the bass simultaneously moves from the tonic (G) note to the root note of the relative minor (Em), via an F♯,[14] supporting a first inversion D chord. After the verse "learn how to play the game, it's easy", the bass alters the prolonged V (D) chord with F#, E, C and B notes.[15] The song is notable for a dramatic use of a dominant or V chord (here D) on "It's easy."[16] The "Love, love, love" chant involves chords in a I–V7–vi shift (G–D–Em)[17] and simultaneous descending B, A, G notes with the concluding G note corresponding not to the tonic G chord, but acting as the 3rd of the Em chord; this also introducing the E note of the Em chord as a 6th of the tonic G scale. Supporting the same melody note with different and unexpected chords has been termed a characteristic Beatles technique.[18] The song's use of quotations from other musical works follows an approach adopted by the Beatles in Harrison's composition "It's All Too Much",[19] which similarly reflects the ideology behind the hippie movement during the 1967 Summer of Love.[20] George Martin recalled that in "All You Need Is Love" Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXfSpHhZjBMIbVzx38CMBkQ?sub_confirmation=1
