This week BROW looks back 42 years ago to a very special occasion. On June 25, 1967, the very first live international satellite television production was broadcast. The two and a half hour program called Our World featured performers from nineteen nations, and according to Wikipedia, an estimated 400 million people around the globe watched the broadcast. Performers were given segments on the show to represent their respective countries and among them were opera singer Maria Callas and artist Pablo Picasso. The master control of the program was set up at BBC London. The most famous segment came from the UK which featured The Beatles. Initially, Paul McCartney had written a song called Hello Goodbye for this event, but John Lennon topped him on this one. At the height of the Vietnam War, The Beatles decided to spread a message of peace and love to the world with another new song written by John Lennon called simply All You Need Is Love. To make the event as festive as possible, The Beatles invited many of their friends to join in on the song’s chorus including The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Marianne Faithful, Keith Moon and Graham Nash. Only one rehearsal was needed and then they went live with it before the world. What we are hearing here is the original live performance and lead vocal preceded by a taping of The Beatles performing some of the backing vocal track. It turns out that the very same instrumental track was used on the forthcoming single release of the song, although Lennon re-did his lead vocal for it. Needless to say, this record topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Beatles on June 25, 1967 at the Our World broadcast.

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