ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II: what the f***?!!

This can't have seemed like a good idea even at the time.
Patch together a montage of film and newsreel clips charting the history of the Second World War and set it all to music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney performed by other artists.
The result almost defies description. 
Almost.
Thankfully the English language includes the word dreadful, and that's what this fiasco is.
Whoever it was who dreamed up the idea of turning World War Two into an eighty four minute music video had to have been under the influence of something that should have been banned or available only on prescription.
How else to account for Helen Reddy trilling "The Fool on the Hill" over images of Hitler looking dictatorial, or the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the tune of "I am the walrus" by Leo Sayer?
Some of the song-image match ups sort of make sense - "Here comes the sun" for Japan's preparations for war, and "Nowhere Man" for Mussolini, but what the heck does "Hey Jude" by The Brothers Johnson have to do with the Russians, or the battle for Guadalcanal with "I am the walrus" (again)?
Released in 1976, ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II was not the only occasion during the 70s when Hollywood turned to The Beatles looking for inspiration and wound up doing grievous bodily harm to some of the finest pop music of all time. Two years later, George Burns, The Bee Gees and Frankie Howerd did their best to beat the Fab Four's finest work to a bloody pulp with the excruciatingly bad "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." 
While both films bombed at the box office and rapidly sank from view, the music has endured, which proves Lennon and McCartney not only wrote classics but bombproof classics to boot.