All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music

All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music

1977 · 1 season · 17 eps · ★ 6.5 · Documentary

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A 17-part television documentary series on the history of modern pop music covering some of the many different genres that have fallen under the label of "popular music" between the mid-19th century and 1976, including folk, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, vaudeville and music hall, musical theatre, country, swing, jazz, blues, R&B, rock 'n' roll and others.

Directed by Tony Palmer · Written by Nik Cohn

Network: ITV1

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