All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
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All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music is the name of a 17-part television documentary series on the history of modern pop music directed by Tony Palmer, originally broadcast worldwide between 1976 and 1980. The series covers some of the many different genres that have fallen under the "pop" label between the mid-19th century and 1976, including folk, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, vaudeville and music hall, musical theatre, country, swing, jazz, blues, R&B, rock 'n' roll and others.[2]
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Directed by | Tony Palmer |
Starring | Various performing artists and music experts |
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Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 17 |
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Executive producer | Richard Pilbrow |
Producer | Neville C. Thompson |
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Running time | 60 min. per episode |
Production company | London Weekend Television |
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Network | ITV |
Release | February 12 (1977-02-12) [1] ā June 4, 1977 (1977-06-04) [1] |
All You Need Is Love was born out of the reaction to his 1968 Omnibus episode[3] on popular music called All My Loving which presented the music of the 1960s with no reference to the musical forms that preceded it.[4] Around 1973, Palmer conceived of a 16-part documentary about American popular music which, after considerable shopping around, he convinced Bernard Delfont of EMI to bankroll.[4] He proceeded to film over 300 interviews in approximately one million feet of film and was given access to archival footage of the same length. Instead of writing a script, he enlisted the help of a dozen or so subject matter experts who wrote 2000-word essays that became the narration for each part.[4]
John Lennon was a friend and mentor to Palmer during the production of the series,[5] and its title is taken from the Lennon-penned 1967 Beatles song, "All You Need Is Love". Although punk rock had entered the pop music scene while the series was being constructed, Palmer was refused the funding and time to include the genre in All You Need Is Love.[5]