ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
by BEATLES

All You Need Is Love is a defining song for the Flower Power counter-culture movement that emerged in the late 1960s, it remains synonymous with the 1967 Summer of Love, where as many as 100,000 young people identifying as hippies converged in an area of San Francisco in a heady meeting of utopian ideals.

Released in July 1967, All You Need Is Love was initially kept off the top spot by Procul Harum's classic A Whiter Shade Of Pale, before rising to Number 1 the following week where it stayed for a three-week stint.

Written by John Lennon and produced by George Martin, All You Need Is Love was penned especially for Our World, the world’s first televised satellite link-up between 25 countries worldwide. with a message and simplicity perfectly judged for the global audience of the broadcast.

Talking about the song's impact, band member Ringo Starr commented in Anthology, "We were big enough to command an audience of that size, and it was for love. It was for love and bloody peace. It was a fabulous time. I even get excited now when I realise that’s what it was for: peace and love, people putting flowers in guns."