The Beatles recently released a colorized version of their “All You Need Is Love” performance video, exactly 59 years after they performed the song live in Studio One at Abbey Road Studios in London, that was broadcast as part of BBC’s “Our World.”
The first ever global satellite TV event was watched by an estimated 400 million people around the globe then.
John Lennon wrote the song specifically for the satellite broadcast. “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,” Ringo Starr later said of the song.
A huge Beatles fan Faith Cohen decided in 2009 that June 25th deserved to be commemorated as Global Beatles Day. Since then, the annual event, embraced by fans across generations and continents, features fan-run celebration dedicated to the band and their music.
Apple Corps Ltd, the company founded by The Beatles, has officially recognized the fan celebration for the first time this year, and the band has released the colorized version of the iconic live performance to YouTube for the first time.
Source: RTT Music News
