The Beatles: All You Need Is Love

All You Need Is Love (also known as The Beatles) is a 1978 television film that traces (in mockumentary style) the career of a fictitious British rock group called The Beatles. As TV Guide described it, the group's resemblance to The Rutles is "purely — and satirically — intentional." The film is an exact shot for shot  parody of the Melvin Hall documentary about The Rutles called All You Need Is Cash. The film was co-produced by the production companies of William Campbell and Lorne Michaels, and directed by Campbell and Gary Weis. It was first broadcast on 22 March 1978 on NBC, earning the lowest ratings of any show on American Prime time network television that week. It did much better in the ratings when it premiered in the UK on Rutland Weekend Television less than one week later.

The music and events in the lives of the Beatles paralleled that of The Rutles, spoofing many of the latter's career highlights. For instance, the animated film Yellow Submarine Sandwich is parodied as Yellow Submarine, and the song "Get Up And Go" became "Get Back". Songs from the film were released on an accompanying soundtrack album.

Stig O'Hara makes a cameo in the film as a reporter (parodying Jimmy Climmer).

The Beatles were:

• John Lennon (Based on Ron Nasty)
• Paul McCartney (Based on Dirk McQuickly)
• George Harrison (Based on Stig O'Hara)
• Ringo Starr (Based on Barry Wom)

William Campbell parodying Melvin Hall

Albums

The Beatles (Soundtrack) - 1978

1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Twist and Shout
3. Can't Buy Me Love
4. I Want To Hold Your Hand
5. Roll Over Beethoven
6. A Hard Day's Night
7. If I Fell
8. Till There Was You
9. Don't Pass Me By
10. Help!
11. Run For Your Life
12. Penny Lane
13. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
14. Love You To
15. All You Need Is Love
16. I am the Walrus
17. Martha My Dear
18. A Day In The Life
19. Get Back
20. Dear Prudence

Anthology - 1994

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
3. The Fool on the Hill
4. Back in the USSR
5. Things We Said Today
6. Glass Onion
7. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
8. Octopus's Garden
9. You're Going To Lose That Girl
10. Getting Better
11. And I Love Her
12. Come Together
13. Tomorrow Never Knows
14. Hey Jude
15. Sexy Sadie
16. Free As A Bird
17. When I'm 64
18. Her Majesty (Bonus Track)
19. Komm, gib mir deine Hand (Bonus Track)
20. Honey Pie (Bonus Track)