The ever wonderful Dangerous Minds have come up with a doozy here. Seemingly in 1976 a more misguided Beatles related film than the Bee Gees Sargent Pepper appeared.
It was called All This And World War II and it was archive footage of the war, spliced with war movies with various bands doing Beatles covers over the top. Oddly enough it’s never came out on video or DVD, but it’s on youtube now.
I have yet to watch this, I can only assume it’s awful, but there are Beatles heads here who may well be interested…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ4x_8IiZ90
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/all_you_need_is_war_the_beatles_vs._hitler
Beany says
The album is fab. Really.
James EB says
Any fule kno that the best ever cover of I Am The Walrus is the one by Boris and Merzbow.
DogFacedBoy says
The Pepper film truly is batshit although it produced Aerosmith’s pretty good ‘Come Together ‘
Rigid Digit says
Not forgetting Steve Martin’s “Maxwells Silver Hammer” and Frankie Howerd’s “When I’m Sixty Four and Mean Mr Mustard”
(OK, they are pretty dire, but “interesting”)
But the disco-infused finale is …
Tiggerlion says
It also spawned the best Beatles cover ever: Got To Get You Into My Life by Earth, Wind & Fire.
Jackthebiscuit says
All this & ww11
– Sir Rod of wearing it well had a decent stab at get back
Carl says
I thought it was pretty awful and I think Rod did too, judging from his comment in the booklet that accompanies the Storyteller box set.
It amounts to this:
Get Back “What’s this doin’ ‘ere?”
Jackthebiscuit says
I was actually referring to the studio version that was released as a single at the back end of 76, I tried to post it but I couldn’t copy it from you tube (that could well have been my legendary computer fuckwittery in action), Whatever, I ended up posting this live version instead.
Well I liked it…
Johnny Concheroo says
Here’s the full track listing:
1.”Magical Mystery Tour” – Ambrosia – 3:52
2.”Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” – Elton John – 6:15 Features John Lennon (under the pseudonym “Dr. Winston O’Boogie”) on lead guitar & backing vocals.
3.”Golden Slumbers”/”Carry That Weight” – The Bee Gees – 3:17
4.”I Am the Walrus” – Leo Sayer – 3:49
5.”She’s Leaving Home” – Bryan Ferry – 3:07
6.”Lovely Rita” – Roy Wood – 1:13
7.”When I’m Sixty-Four” – Keith Moon – 2:36
8.”Get Back” – Rod Stewart – 4:24
9.”Let It Be” – Leo Sayer – 3:43
10.”Yesterday” – David Essex – 2:44
11.”With a Little Help from My Friends”/”Nowhere Man” – Jeff Lynne – 6:56
12.”Because” – Lynsey De Paul – 3:24
13.”She Came In Through The Bathroom Window” – The Bee Gees – 1:54
14.”Michelle” – Richard Cocciante – 4:00
15.”We Can Work It Out” – The Four Seasons – 2:39
16.”The Fool on the Hill” – Helen Reddy – 3:37
17.”Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” – Frankie Laine – 3:27
18.”Hey Jude” – The Brothers Johnson – 4:58
19.”Polythene Pam” – Roy Wood – 1:30
20.”Sun King” – The Bee Gees – 2:03
21.”Getting Better” – Status Quo – 2:19
22.”The Long and Winding Road” – Leo Sayer – 4:47
23.”Help!” – Henry Gross – 3:07
24.”Strawberry Fields Forever” – Peter Gabriel – 2:30
25.”A Day in the Life” – Frankie Valli – 4:04
26.”Come Together” – Tina Turner – 4:08
27.”You Never Give Me Your Money” – Wil Malone & Lou Reizner – 3:04
28.”The End” – The London Symphony Orchestra – 2:26
Henry Gross? He was the singer from rock & roll revival band Sha Na Na and, at 18, the youngest person to appear onstage at the Woodstock Festival.
You’re welcome.
Johnny Concheroo says
Richard Cocciante? French/Italian pop singer who recorded mostly in Italian, French & Spanish. Made shitloads of albums, but this appears to be one of his few forays into UK/US pop
Johnny Concheroo says
The Elton track was not part of the All This & WWII project, but was recorded two years earlier in 1974
Peanuts Molloy says
Henry Gross released a very enjoyable album in 1975 called “Plug me into something” which I bought after John Peel played a couple of tracks. He’s recently been touring the UK with his pal Joe Brown.
Sniffity says
Had a hit single with Shannon around 1975/76
Sniffity says
The designer that did all the artwork was a fellow named Clyde Terry – fresh out of art school I showed him my portfolio…unfortunately by then he was seriously into Barney Bubbles while I was still worshipping at the altar of Roger Dean 🙂
Johnny Concheroo says
Have you done anything we might know Sniff?
Sniffity says
No, I’m strictly small-time.
Johnny Concheroo says
How about something we might enjoy?
Pessoa says
I think I will add this here: In 1977, there was a US TV special on Rolling Stone magazine which included this medley of Beatles hits done in a Broadway rock opera style. Really quite dreadful and also full of inappropriate imagery, despite a decent bit with Richie Havens
DrJ says
I bought a mint vinyl copy of the soundtrack last year from a shop In Groningen. It’s alright. The Peter Gabriel track is a bit of a disappointment, but it’s interesting to hear a rare outing by Jeff Lynne that wasn’t produced by Jeff Lynne.
https://youtu.be/00e4LUgaKHM
dai says
I have a “rare” box set version of the soundtrack, probably only about 10 million out there ….
fatima Xberg says
The set was reissued recently as a 2-CD “vinyl replica” set.
http://www.discogs.com/Various-All-This-And-World-War-II-Original-Soundtrack/release/6850391
(If you click “more images” you can have a look at the full booklet in all its ghastly glory.)
And yes, it was released on VHS – in Germany, of all places.