Love Is All (Roger Glover song)

Love Is All is a 1975 pop song, credited to Roger Glover & Friends in the credits, but in reality sung by Ronnie James Dio. It was featured on Glover's solo album The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast and was a number one-hit in the Netherlands and Belgium.

The song was notable for its music video, which featured an animated cartoon starring a guitar-playing frog.

In 1973 Roger Glover left Deep Purple because of work pressure and tensions between him and Ritchie Blackmore. Together with Jon Lord he worked on a solo project. Their plan was to make a rock opera based on William Plomer and Alan Aldridge's book The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1973), in itself based on the eponymous poem by British historian William Roscoe (1802). However, because Lord was too busy with Deep Purple Glover decided to make it into a concept album recorded by himself and musicians like Glenn Hughes, David Coverdale, John Lawton and Ronnie James Dio. The resulting album was titled The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast.

Eddie Hardin wrote the song Love Is All based on a song featured in The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast named Love's all you need, which was inspired by The Beatles' song All You Need Is Love (1967). The song was sung by Ronnie James Dio, but the single was credited to Glover. It's B-side was Old Blind Mole/Magician Moth.

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