THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
141-The Beatles-All You Need Is Love.
1967-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 3.23.At the current time of writing the record for a song being viewed on YouTube in a 24 hour period is 74,600,000 held by Japanese boy band ‘BTS’ featuring Halsey with the song ‘Boy With Luv.’ Small fry in comparison to what the Beatles did 52 years earlier.
On June 25,1967 the Beatles were asked to take part in the very first ever live international satellite television programme called ‘Our World.’Alongside other creative artists such as Opera singer Maria Callas and painter Pablo Picasso they were performers representing nineteen nations over a two and a half hour broadcast to twenty four countries around the world,’All You Need Is Love’ was performed for the first time live to an estimated audience of somewhere between 400-700 million people.
The song was written by John Lennon(see also best songs 927-599-473-456-319-238-218 and 168) who realising he could send out a message to the world made the lyrics as simple as possible so every nation could understand them.The time of this songs recording has become known as the ‘Summer of Love.’
‘There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done,nothing you can sing that can’t be sung.’
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