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ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Story of Popular Music FINALLY RELEASED on DVD

February 28th, 2008 by admin | Filed under News.

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE The Story of Popular Music FINALLY RELEASED on DVD

All You Need Is Love makes its DVD debut as a lavish boxed set which contains all 17 episodes of the series on 5 discs.
Contained  within those discs IS the ‘Story of Popular Music,’ encompassing Ragtime, Blues, Jazz, Vaudeville, The Musical, Folk, Swing, Country and Western, Rock ‘n’ Roll and beyond, and includes interviews with some of the major names of the past 50+ years

including:-
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimi Hendrix, Stephen Sondheim, Benny Goodman, Jethro Tull, Bing Crosby, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd, The Beach Boys, Tina Turner, Sam Phillips,
Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Richard Rodgers, Tangerine Dream, David Bowie, Roy Rogers, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Phil Spector, Bill Monroe, Rolling Stones, Bill Graham, Bill Wyman, Frank Zappa, Eric
Clapton and many many more. (full episode details available from www.allyouneedislovedvd.com

All You Need Is Love has frequently been described as the “definitive music documentary,” and is regarded just as highly today as ‘cult viewing’ as it was over 30 years ago when it was first broadcast. In the mid-70s, at the suggestion of John Lennon, the celebrated journalist and film director Tony Palmer decided to document the “Story of Popular Music” and set about interviewing and filming all the major players in the industry at that time, past and present. Even in the mid-70s this was seen as a monumental task, but despite the scale of the undertaking, Tony Palmer made a series of films that set the standard to which all subsequent biographers and documentary makers aspired to.

The critically acclaimed All You Need Is Love was broadcast across the world between 1976 and 1981. But since that time, it has neither been repeated nor commercially released on either video or DVD.

A monumental achievement. Thank you. – John Lennon

Magnificent…the editing is truly outstanding. A priceless archive. – Bing Crosby

Its colossal emotional and intellectual range I doubt will ever be bettered. – Pete Seeger

Palmer’s brilliant exposition has reconciled, drawn together the multifarious strands of the world’s most fascinating music in a way never before attempted so comprehensively … with magisterial clarity. It’s simply the best thing yet on the subject and long overdue. Magnificent. – Sunday Times (London)

Visually rich as mass entertainment … its appeal should transcend most frontiers … loaded with musical personalities. – Variety

Scholarly … one of the most comprehensive volumes to appear on pop.., the shows will attract a massive audience. – Evening Standard (London)

NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME from
www.allyouneedislovedvd.com

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