All You Need Is Love Lyrics



Lennon/McCartney


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).

Yee-hai!
Oh yeah!
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.

 
Lead Singer: John

Recording: 6/14/67, 6/19/67, 6/23/67, 6/24/67, 6/25/67, 6/26/67
Mixing: 6/21/67, 6/26/67, 11/1/67, 10/29/68
Length: 3:57
Take: 58

Anomalies

0:08-0:12 * NEW *
Listening to the centre (gentle) snare sound, it is clearly ahead of the beat for a little while
0:10
Nasal intake of breath. Between the lines of the song he can be heard chewing gum!. Listen before the line "nothing you can make that can't be made"
0:23
Plink of a guitar/plectrum (Left)
0:25
(Right channel) someone speaks". It sounds like "then check it".
1:19,1:23
Two edits in the guitar tracks, right ear
2:08
Plinking notes, guitar or banjo sound. Don't seem to fit with song?
3:15-3:18
Paul makes a few errors in the bass part. His speed varies all over the place through this.
The Beatles played this for the first time on the "Our World" project, the first worldwide TV special. Broadcast in 24 countries, the show was 6 hours long and featured music from 6 continents. The Beatles represented England.
The Beatles were supposedly recording this live during the show, but they used a prerecorded backing track and Lennon's vocal was redone a few hours later.
"All You Need Is Love" was a popular saying in the '60s anti-war movement.
The Beatles wrote this in 2 weeks as a message to the world. It was written and released faster than any other Beatles song.
Ringo's second son, Jason, was born the day this hit #1 in the US. Jason is also a drummer.
This came out in the middle of the Summer of Love (1967). It was a big part of the vibe.
The orchestral fade-out is taken from classical compositions "Greensleeves" and "In The Mood."
McCartney sang the chorus to The Beatles 1963 hit, "She Loves You" at the end.
A royalty fee was paid to Glenn Miller for using his "In The Mood" in the fade-out.
This begins with a clip from the French national anthem, the "Marseillaise."
Al and Tipper Gore had this played at their wedding.
Eric Clapton played guitar on this during the TV special where it first aired.
George Harrison mentioned this in his 1981 song "All Those Years Ago," with the line, "But you point the way to the truth when you say 'All you need is love.'" The song is a tribute to John Lennon, who was killed in 1980.


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