Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday People

Sly and the Family Stone - Everyday People

"Everyday People" is a 1968 song by Sly & the Family Stone. It was the first single by the band to go to number one on the Soul singles chart and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.[1] It held that position, on the Hot 100, for four weeks from February 15, 1969, until March 14, 1969, and is remembered as a popular song of the 1960s. As with most of Sly & the Family Stone's songs, Sly Stone was credited as the sole songwriter.

Unlike the band's more typically funky and psychedelic records, "Everyday People" is a mid-tempo number with a more mainstream pop feel. Sly, singing the main verses for the song, explains that he is "no better / and neither are you / we are the same / whatever we do."

Sly's sister Rose Stone sings bridging sections that mock the futility of people hating each other for being tall, short, fat, skinny, white, black, or anything else. The bridges of the song contain the line "different strokes for different folks," which became a popular catchphrase in 1969 (and inspired the name of the later television series, Diff'rent Strokes).

For the chorus, all of the singing members of the band (Sly, Rosie, Larry Graham, and Sly's brother Freddie Stone) proclaim that "I am everyday people," meaning that each of them (and each listener as well) should consider himself or herself as parts of one whole, not of smaller, specialized factions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyday_People_%28song%29

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[lkuwaeoirNWEOUIAWNER]

we need this message now more than ever!

[vradul]

@lkuwaeoirNWEOUIAWNER You can say that again! And again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. And... again!

[GhettoChildTaZ]

ight lemme clear up some sly rumors one time lol Sly is not homeless he rents his mansion to his lawyer he hates that house and refuses to go inside. He lives in a winnebago by choice and theres a studio in there. Slys physical appearance was caused by a motorcycle crash not his drug addiction. and regardless of all that he is still EPIC...that is all

[101nosirrom]

@BATMAN3220 I was 5 back then. My mom did us good. We struggled and she kept us together. Music is all we had sometimes. Mom did us GOOD. No music today compares to the 50's, 60's, and 70's.

[101nosirrom]

@GhettoChildTaZ Yes Sly is dead broke. Artist back then were often manipulated by big Corporation. He is just a small portion of the the LITTLE RICHARD SYNDROME.

[101nosirrom]

@vradul damn! music was so simple back then. This is a song for all ages.

[finnmick96]

This bass playing style is heard later in Joe Cocker's "Unchain My Heart".

[progrocker69]

@BATMAN3220 You got this awesome song, while I, born less than a month later on 3/17/69, ended up with "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe. =(

[OXISHENA]

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE : LE CONCEPT

«Le groupe comprenait des filles, des mecs blancs, c'était un mélange entre les hommes, les femmes et les différentes races, et c'est comme ça que les choses doivent être. Je n'ai jamais pu me faire à ce genre de discrimination. Je voulais autant que possible que le groupe soit le reflet de l'âme des différents genres et des différentes couleurs de peau. Afin que le monde puisse voir des gens différents s'éclater sur scène, et que cela soit un exemple».

[heymama1]

This is an American song. One that many more should take to heart.

[katzinhatz1]

@themigtyboosh word!

[BATMAN3220]

This song was #1 on the day I was born 2/27/69 you gotta love it.