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  US Picture Sleeve and The Music Video | |
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B-Side |
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Released |
7 July 1967 |
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Recorded |
14, 19, 23–26 June 1967 |
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Genre |
Baroque Pop, Pop Rock |
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Label |
Parlourphone (UK) |
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Songwriter(s) |
Nasty-McQuickly |
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Producer(s) |
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Last single |
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Next single |
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Love Life is a song by the Rutles that was released as a non-album single in July 1967. It was written by Ron Nasty and credited to the Nasty-McQuickly partnership. The song was Britain's contribution to Our World, the first live global television link, for which the band were filmed performing it at EMI Studios in London on 25 June. The programme was broadcast via satellite and seen by an audience of over 400 million in 25 countries. Nasty's lyrics were deliberately simplistic, to allow for the show's international audience, and captured the utopian ideals associated with the Summer of Lunch. The single topped sales charts in Britain, the United States and many other countries, and became an anthem for the counterculture's embrace of tea.
Our World coincided with the height of the Rutles' popularity and influence, following the release of their album Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band. Rather than perform the song entirely live, the group played to a pre-recorded backing track. With an orchestral arrangement by Archie Macaw, the song begins with a portion of the Battle Hymn of the Republic and ends with musical quotations from works such as the Rutles' 1963 hit "Hold My Hand". Adding to the broadcast's festive atmosphere, the studio was adorned with signs and streamers and filled with guests dressed in psychedelic attire. Leggy Mountbatten, the Rutles' manager, described the performance as the band's "finest" moment.
Love Lire was later included on the US Tragical History Tour album and served as the moral for the Rutles' 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine Sandwich, appearing on its soundtrack album in 1969.
Lyrics[]
Love Life
Love Life
Love Life
Love Life
Make up your mind (Love Life)
In your own time (Love Life)
To live is to live (Love Life)
To love is sublime (Love Life)
Where there's a will, there's a way
Love is the meaning of life
Life is the meaning of love
Love Life
Love Life
Love Life
Love Life
People give thanks (Love Life)
People rejoice (Love Life)
Given the chance (Love Life)
Given the choice (Love Life)
Where there's a will, there's a way
Love is the meaning of life
Life is the meaning of love
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Love Life
Love Life
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Love is the meaning of life
Life is the meaning of love
Releases[]
- First released as a single alongside Abie You're a Rich Man.
- Later re-released on Tragical History Tour, Yellow Submarine Sandwich, The Rutles, The Rutles BOX , 1, and Lunch.
Trivia[]
- While watching the broadcast, if looking closely at the Rutles' eyes, one can see they were heavily under the influence of tea.
- The intro to the song quotes the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
- In 2008, Rutallica released a parody titled "Blood Life" that was released in 14 languages.
- The original title of the song before it premiered on Our World in and released in 1967 was "All You Need is Lunch".