All You Need Is Love - Series 1 - Complete
Features all 17 episodes of the series ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE, which looked in detail at popular music throughout the 20th century up until the mid 1970s. The show looked at various genres including country, rock n' roll, jazz, vaudeville, ragtime, blues, folk, musicals, and swing. Read more
| Starring | John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis |
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| Director | Tony Palmer |
| Genres | Documentary, Music/Musical, Television |
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All You Need Is Love - Series 1 - Complete
Features all 17 episodes of the series ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE, which looked in detail at popular music throughout the 20th century up until the mid 1970s. The show looked at various genres including country, rock n' roll, jazz, vaudeville, ragtime, blues, folk, musicals, and swing.
| Starring | John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimi Hendrix, Bing Crosby, Dizzy Gillespie, Muddy Waters, Frank Zappa, Mike Oldfield, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Bill Wyman |
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| Director | Tony Palmer |
| Studio | Voice Print |
| Run time | DVD: 14 hrs 45 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Documentary, Music/Musical, Television |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 05 May 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
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Episode 2:God's Children - The Beginnings Episode 3:I Can Hypnotise 'Dis Nation - Ragtime Episode 4:Jungle ...
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Episode 6:Rude Songs - Vaudeville & Music Hall Episode 7:Always Chasing Rainbows - Tin Pan Alley Episode 8:...
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Episode 10:Good Times - Rhyhum And Blues Episode 11:Making Moonshine - Country Music Episode 12:Go Down, M...
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Episode 14:Mighty Good - The Beatles Episode 15:All Along The Watchtower - Sour Rock Episode 16:Whatever Ge...
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All You Need Is Love Collection
A brilliant collection of music and commentary which is highly recommended. Disc 4 was particularly memorable with the live footage of Jerry Lee Lewis the best concert footage ever.
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It's All Too Much
Music documentaries nowadays are slick - lots of talking heads, rare footage - the history, at least of rock'n'roll, and of other notable genres, country, blues, jazz, have been told, from various angles, ad infinitum. There are accepted wisdoms about music that are rarely questioned. When Tony Palmer's 17-part series was first broadcast in 1977, things were not so slick. And his history of popular music attempts to cover, with an unashamedly American, and to a lesser extent British, bias, pretty much the 20th century up to that point. Its value is in the number of interviews with musicians and songwriters no longer around to tell their stories (Hoagy Carmichael is particularly entertaining), and his quirky take on popular music has a certain charm. It was a massive and ambitious undertaking at the time, and that must be acknowledged. But its flaws are many - too many to mention, but here are a few... The first six or seven episodes, chronologically, take every opportunity to show white performers in blackface make-up, and illustrate the way watered-down versions of black music were made acceptable to a wider audience - but from then on, James Brown is overlooked, as are many Motown acts, and many of the major blues and jazz names (Howling Wolf, Charles Mingus) are missed out in favour of forgotten or obscure artists. In fact, black music gets a pretty raw deal generally, as an episode on rhythm and blues spends 15 minutes talking about white gospel and about Pat Boone, a man who gets far, far too much air time. In rock'n'roll, Jerry Lee Lewis is hardly offscreen, while Little Richard and Chuck Berry are very poorly served. In a 'protest' episode, British folk singer Leon Rosselson gets to perform a whole song, while Bob Dylan is barely mentioned in passing. And it goes on, right up to the final episode, where Black Oak Arkansas and Tangerine Dream represent 'new directions', while the late great music critic Lester Bangs is a lone voice of sanity, his every utterance predicting the puink movement that would blow away, temporarily, the tired and flabby '70s rock that clogs up most of the last couple of epsiodes. A historical document, in more ways than one.
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Features all 17 episodes of the series ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE, which looked in detail at popular music throughout the 20th century up until the mid 1970s. The show looked at various genres including ... -