The words of the Beatles hit 'All You Need Is Love' are to be written on the walls of Luton airport after they were voted the greatest words of all time in an internet poll.
The poll was run by a body charged with the tricky task of promoting
Luton. The Lennon penned lyrics beat Churchill's "Never in the field of human conflict" and the Bible's "Man does not live by bread alone" in the public vote. "Unto
Thine Own Self Be True" was the second most popular, with
"All Journeys Begin With A First Step" in third place.
Commenting on the poll, Paul Kehoe, Managing Director of Luton Airport, told reporters: "The winning quotation is a great choice as the words will send out an immediate, positive and life affirming message to all visitors arriving in the UK at London Luton Airport".
Tony
Edwards, PR for Luton First, the promotional body who organised the poll, said: "It was interesting to see that the title of a 1960s' song should be in the forefront of public imagination more than 40 years on."
Luton is not the only British airport that will be displaying a Lennon lyric of course. Liverpool's airport is now named in Lennon's honour with a strapline taken from his solo hit 'Imagine' -
"above us only sky".