All You Need Is Love (JAMs song)

"All You Need Is Love"
"All You Need Is Love"
Single by The JAMs
from the album 1987
Released	9 March 1987 (original white-label version); 18 May 1987 ("106bpm" version);
Genre	Electronic; alternative hip-hop;
Length	5:02 (original white-label version); 4:56 ("106bpm" version);
Label	The Sound of Mu(sic); (KLF Communications);
Songwriters	Jimmy Cauty; Bill Drummond;
Producers	Rockman Rock (Cauty); King Boy Hard Drummond; (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu);
Drummond and Cauty singles chronology

"All You Need Is Love" is a song by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (the JAMs), independently released as their debut single on 9 March 1987. A politically topical song concerning the British media's AIDS furore, the track was initially given a 12" white label release because of its sampling of other records.

"All You Need Is Love" epitomised the artistic attitude of the JAMs' subsequent recordings: making use of popular music by taking extensive samples of other artists' work, and juxtaposing these with each other, adding beatbox rhythms and Bill Drummond's Scottish-accented raps and narrations. The JAMs' promotional tactics were similarly unconventional, including the use of promotional graffiti, a guerrilla communication method which would be employed regularly by Drummond and Cauty throughout their career.