Leningrad Cowboys - All We Need Is Love Music Video

What this video is

Released in 2011 as part of the album 'Buena Vodka Social Club,' this video represents the Leningrad Cowboys at full maturity of their ironic, campy brand identity. The Finnish band, renowned for their absurdist costumes and comedy-rock canon of covers and originals, filmed this Beatles cover at Wild at Heart in Berlin — a venue emblematic of Europe's underground rockabilly and punk-adjacent club culture. The…

Why it matters

The Leningrad Cowboys occupy a singular position in rock history: a Finnish group whose theatrical absurdism — oversized pompadours, pointed shoes, and irreverent covers — became internationally iconic partly through Aki Kaurismäki's 1989 film. This 2011 video sustains that legacy into the…

The director

Dirk Behlau, aka 'The Pixeleye', born 1971, is an internationally acclaimed designer, filmmaker, creative director and photographer from Bonn, Germany. Since 1999, he has operated Pixeleye Interactive (later Pixeleye Industries) and film production arm…