| "All You Need Is Love" | ||||
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| Single by The JAMs | ||||
| from the album 1987 | ||||
| Released | 9 March 1987 (original white-label version) 18 May 1987 ("106bpm" version) | |||
| Genre | Electronic, alternative hip hop | |||
| Length | 5:02 (original white-label version) 4:56 ("106bpm" version) | |||
| Label | The Sound of Mu(sic) (KLF Communications) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jimmy Cauty Bill Drummond | |||
| Producer(s) | Rockman Rock (Cauty) King Boy Hard Drummond (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu) | |||
| Drummond & Cauty singles chronology | ||||
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"All You Need Is Love" is a song by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the JAMs), independently released as their debut single on 9 March 1987. A politically topical song concerning the British media's AIDS furore, the track was initially given a 12" white label release because of its sampling of other records.
"All You Need Is Love" epitomised the artistic attitude of the JAMs' subsequent recordings: making use of popular music by taking extensive samples of other artists' work, and juxtaposing these with each other, adding beatbox rhythms and Bill Drummond's Scottish-accented raps and narrations. The JAMs' promotional tactics were similarly unconventional, including the use of promotional graffiti, a guerrilla communication method which would be employed regularly by Drummond and Cauty throughout their career.