All You Need is Love

Happy New Year!

Album: Magical Mystery Tour

Year: 1967

Written by: Lennon & McCartney

I can't think of a better way to start the new year than with this classic Beatles tune, which was written for the Our World television program. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about that special show:

Our World was the first live, international, satellite television production, which was broadcast on 25 June 1967. Creative artists, including The Beatles, opera singer Maria Callas, and painter Pablo Picasso — representing nineteen nations — were invited to perform or appear in separate segments featuring their respective countries. The two-and-half-hour event had the largest television audience ever up to that date: an estimated 400 million people around the globe watched the broadcast.Today, it is most famous for the segment from the United Kingdom starring The Beatles. They sang their specially composed song "All You Need Is Love" to close the broadcast.

John Lennon was said to be very nervous about this performance, knowing that so many people would be watching. That is why he can be seen chewing gum as he sings. The Beatles invited their friends to the television studio to join in the fun, and Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones, can be seen singing along with the chorus at about 2:37 in the video above.

This performance took place less than a month after The Beatles released their ground-breaking album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, kicking off what has become known in history books as "The Summer of Love."