Living for the City

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"Living for the City"
Single by Stevie Wonder
from the album Innervisions
B-side "Visions"
Released November 1973
Format 7" 45 RPM
Genre Soul
Length 7:21 (Full-length version)
3:41 (Single edit)
Label Tamla
Writer(s) Stevie Wonder
Producer(s) Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
"Higher Ground"
(1973)
"Living for the City"
(1973)
"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing"
(1974)
Innervisions track listing
Side One
  1. "Too High"
  2. "Visions"
  3. "Living for the City"
  4. "Golden Lady"
Side Two
  1. "Higher Ground"
  2. "Jesus Children of America"
  3. "All in Love Is Fair"
  4. "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing"
  5. "He's Misstra Know-It-All"

"Living for the City" is a 1973 single by Stevie Wonder from his Innervisions album. It reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 1 on the R&B chart.[1] Rolling Stone ranked the song number 105 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".[2]

Wonder played all the instruments on the song and was assisted by Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff for recording engineering and synthesizer programming.[3] It was one of the first soul music songs to deal explicitly with systemic racism and to use everyday sounds of the street like traffic, voices and sirens which were combined with the music recorded in the studio.[4][5][6]

Personnel

Samples

Chart performance

References

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Preceded by Billboard's Hot Soul Singles number one single
December 29, 1973 - January 5, 1974
Succeeded by
"Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" by Aretha Franklin