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1976 - All you need is love, the story of popular music - DVDset in 2008
All You Need Is Love makes its DVD debut as a lavish boxed set which contains all 17 episodes
of the series on 5 discs. Contained within those discs is the 'Story of Popular Music,'
encom-passing Ragtime, Blues, Jazz, Vaudeville, The Musical, Folk, Swing, Country and Western,
Rock 'n' Roll and beyond, and includes interviews with some of the major names of the past 50+
years including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimi Hendrix,
Stephen Sondheim, Benny Goodman, Bing Crosby, Mike Oldfield, The Beach Boys, Tina Turner,
Sam Phillips, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Richard Rodgers, Roy Rogers, Bo Diddley, Muddy
Waters, Phil Spector, Bill Monroe, Bill Graham, Bill Wyman, Frank Zappa, Eric Clapton and
many many more. It has frequently been described as the "definitive music documentary," and
is regarded just as highly today as 'cult viewing' as it was over 30 years ago when
It is generally assumed that American popular music comes from the coastal regions of Africa;
that the slaves brought drums to the United States; that jazz originated, somehow, in
New Orleans; that the blues developed in the Mississippi Delta, and later became the cornerstone
of everything from rock n roll to ragtime. All of these assumptions are untrue, and this
episode with seek to uncover the real story -- in Africa, on the edge of the Sahara;
in Austria and the Salzkammergut; in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas; in New Orleans and
in Texas.
Duke Ellington Ginger Baker
James Brown LeRoi Jones
Lightnin' Hopkins Rufus Thomas
The Platters Tina Turner
Director: Tony Palmer Running Time: 1005 Minutes -- 60 hrs.