ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE - DVD-VOL. 7: DIAMONDS AS BIG AS THE RITZ

Details

• Release Year: 1976
• Genre: Documentary, Music
• Plot: Popular music is now an essential part of our daily lives. Yet we know comparatively little about it - where it came from, how it developed, how it has influenced or been influenced by social change. Today, the popular music industry controls billions of dollars: it has a greater revenue than the combined efforts of cinema, theatre, sport and all the other entertainment industries put together. Yet that industry depends, ultimately, on the creative talents of a group of remarakable individuals. The story of popular music, therefore, is a story of struggle by these individuals to survive the demands of an avaricious, thieving and capricious industry.; ; This critically acclaimed TV series, originally broadcast worldwide between 1976 and 1980, is featured here in its entirety - 17 episodes contained on 5 discs, encompassing ragtime, blues, jazz, vaudeville, the musical, folk, swing, country and wetsern, rock 'n' roll and beyond.
• Cast: Irving Caesar; Hoagy Carmichael; Bing Crosby; John Hammond; Elton John; John Lennon; Paul McCartney; Tina Turner; Murray the 'K'; Joan Baez; Lester Bangs; Pat Boone; Ray Charles; Eric Clapton; Bo Diddley; Donovan; Aretha Franklin; Dizzy Gillespie; Bill Haley; William Hammerstein; E.Y. Harburg; Mick Jagger; Glynis Johns; Jerry Lee Lewis; Liberace; Rouben Mamoulian; Paul Oliver; Sam Phillips; Richard Rodgers; Roy Rogers; The Rolling Stones; Muddy Waters; Jerry Wexler; Rudi Blesh; Roy Acuff; Mickey Addy; David Allan Coe; Bill Anderson; Ian Anderson; The Animals; Charles Aznavour; Ginger Baker; The Baker-Gurvitz Army; Amiri Baraka; Lionel Bart; Sylvie Barton; The Beach Boys; The Bee Gees; Chuck Berry; Eubie Blake; Michael John Bowen; David Bowie; Richard Branson; Vera Brodsky Lawrence; Jack Brokensha; Dave Brubeck; Jack Bruce; The Segun Bugna Troupe; Eric Burdon; Carl Butler; Pearl Butler; Henry 'Professor Longhair' Byrd; The Byrds; Cab Calloway; Glen Campbell; Ian Carr; Chubby Checker; Leonard Cohen; Perry Como; The Houston Grand Opera Company; Alice Cooper; Chick Corea; Como Fife & Drum Corps; Como Mississippi Fife & Drums Corps; Ed Cramer; Roger Daltrey; Jim Dandy; Clive Davis; Miles Davis; Vergie Derman; The Diamonds; Lonnie Donegan; Jimmie Driftwood; Dutch Swing College Band; Electric Light Orchestra; Brian Epstein; Clive Epstein; Queenie Epstein; Ruth Etting; Dale Evans; The Everly Brothers; Dorothy Fay; Bryan Ferry; Bob Fosse; Bud Freeman; Ireland's Freeman; Myra Friedman; Terry Garthwaite; Gary Glitter; Jack Goode; Benny Goodman; Berry Gordy; Bill Graham; Blind Arvella Gray; Arlo Guthrie; Lionel Hampton; Carlton Haney; George Harrison; Woody Herman; Bennie Hess; Dorothy Hess; Troy Hess; Earl 'Fatha' Hines; Buddy Holly; Lightnin Hopkins; Armand Hug All Stars; Helen Hughes; William Ivey; Rex Jameson; Jethro Tull; Peter John; Bob Johnson; Scott Joplin; Barney Josephson; B.B. King; Earl King; Don Kirshner; KISS; Alexis Korner; Fela Kuti; Danny La Rue; Labelle; George Lee; Jerry Leiber; Furry Lewis; John Lewis; Little Richard; Nick Lucas; Vera Lynn; Galt MacDermot; Uncle Dave Macon; The Mamas and the Papas; Manfred Mann; Marty Manning; Bob Marley; John Marshall; George Martin; Monica Mason; John Mayer; Linda McCartney; Country Joe McDonald; Roger McGuinn; George Melly; Charles Mingus; Christy's Minstrels; Bill Monroe; Keith Moon; Tom O'Horgan; Mike Oldfield; The Osmonds; Tunji Oyelana; Joseph Papp; Tom Parker; Minnie Pearl; Carl Perkins; Wilson Pickett; Webb Pierce; Pink Floyd; The Platters; The Buck Ram Platters; Harold Prince; Johnnie Ray; Dennis Reardon; Helen Reddy; Jimmy Reed; Buddy Rich; Cliff Richard; Eddie Rogers; Al Rose; Leon Rosselson; Roxy Music; Ken Russell; Russell Sanjek; Pete Seeger; The Shadows; Ravi Shankar; Artie Shaw; George Shearing; James Simmons; Tommy Simmons; Fisk Jubilee Singers; Shelby Singleton; Wayne Sleep; Memphis Slim; Stephen Sondheim; Phil Spector; Victoria Spivey; Dusty Springfield; The Staple Singers; Ringo Starr; Mike Stoller; Butch Stone; The Supremes; Roosevelt Sykes; Derek Taylor; Rufus Thomas; Ernest Tubb; Grant Turner; Ike Turner; Conway Twitty; Rudy Vallee; Lee Valvoda; Dick Vance; Sylvie Vartan; Terry Waldo; Harry Warren; Ian Whitcomb; Buck White; Vicki Wickham; Allan Williams; Norma Winstone; Stevie Wonder; Bill Wyman; Jack Wyrtzen; Stomu Yamashta; Mighty Joe Young; Larry Yurdkin; Frank Zappa; Michael Gibbs; The Who; Tony Palmer; David Cheshire; Charles Chilton; Nik Cohn; Leonard Feather; Jack Good; Humphrey Lyttelton
• Director: Tony Palmer
• Runtime: 14:45
• Company: BBC
• Media Format: Series