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Forever No. 1: Sly & the Family Stone’s ‘Everyday People’
Forever No. 1: Sly & the Family Stone’s ‘Everyday People.' Here's a detailed analysis of the band's first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
The album, which also featured “Sing a Simple Song,” “Stand!” and “I Want to Take You Higher,” was inducted into the National Recording Registry in 2014 and the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015. “Sly Stone, born Sylvester Stewart, left this earth today, but the changes he sparked while here will echo forever … He dared to be simple in the most complex ways — using childlike joy, wordless cries, and nursery rhyme cadences to express adult truths.” That last part was a clear reference to “Everyday People.” Questlove also recalled what he called that song’s “eternal cry” – “We got to live together!” Said Quest: “Once idealistic, now I hear it as a command.
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