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All You Need Is Love review: a glorious reminder of how pop docs used to be | Television & radio | The Guardian

All You Need Is Love review: a glorious reminder of how pop docs used to be | Television & radio | The Guardian

June 05
10:32 2016

The subheading to this 17-part documentary says it all: The History of Popular Music. It shows what a massive undertaking this was, a seemingly impossible task. The fact that it succeeds so gloriously is, in large part, down to its director, Tony Palmer, who treated something as ephemeral as pop with a seriousness it probably didn’t deserve. That would certainly have been the opinion of most people working in the arts at the time – 1977 – but Palmer had by then already given us such classic documentaries as

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