TONY PALMER - DVD ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE VOL. 11

01. Over the past forty plus years British film director Tony Palmer has established himself as one of the country's foremost director's of documentary and factual based films. One of Tony Palmers first successes was the film All My Loving which was released
02. encouraged by John Lennon to document the history of popular music. The result was the groundbreaking and award winning series of films made for television under the title "All You Need Is Love" The full series of films was released in 2008 to great criti
03. Pete Seeger and Leonard Cohen After Nashville had ripped through American country music
04. it might seem that the folk traditions this music embodied had been lost. Not so
05. because these traditions had a purpose other than to entertain. We shall see how folk music used popular melodies to spell out unpopular themes
06. how during the American War of Independence filthy words were penned against the British Crown
07. but all to the tune of ?God Save The King'. The same happened during the American Civil War - different words
08. depending on whether you were from the North or the South but to the same tune. Song has been used by such as Joan Baez and Bob Dylan
09. Peter Seeger and Leonard Cohen as a passionate weapon for peace. The effect these singers managed to achieve in the sixties was one of the stronger causes of the American defeat in Vietnam.