Our World

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Our World was the first live, international, satellite television production, which was broadcast on 25 June 1967. Performers in twenty-six nations were invited to perform in separate segments featuring their respective countries, and the two-hour event had the largest television audience ever up to that date: an estimated 400 million people around the globe watched the broadcast.^{[citation needed]}

Today, it is most famous for the segment starring The Beatles. Performing at the height of the Vietnam War, the group wanted to spread a message of peace and love to the world. They broadcast a live set, singing John Lennon's song, "All You Need Is Love", which had been written especially for the occasion. The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Moon and Graham Nash, among others, showed up and sang along. The performance was done after a single rehearsal.

Although it was originally recorded in black and white, when The Beatles' segment was featured in The Beatles Anthology it was painstakingly colourised, using photographs taken at the time as a guide.^{[citation needed]}

The project was conceived by BBC producer Aubrey Singer. It was transferred to the European Broadcasting Union, but the master control room for the broadcast was still at the BBC in London. The satellites used were Intelsat I, Intelsat II and ATS-1.