Living for the City
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"Living for the City" | |||||||
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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) |
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Label | Tamla | ||||||
Writer(s) | Stevie Wonder | ||||||
Producer(s) | Stevie Wonder | ||||||
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"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]
Contents
Personnel
- Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocals, Fender Rhodes, drums, Moog bass, T.O.N.T.O. synthesizer, handclaps[citation needed]
Samples
- "Lil Freak" by Usher featuring Nicki Minaj. Tom Breihan of Pitchfork Media described the heavily manipulated sample as, "a monstrous swirl of orchestral exoticism".[7]
Chart performance
Weekly singles charts
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Year-end charts
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References
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- ↑ "Top Pop Singles" Billboard December 28, 1974: Talent in Action-8
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External links
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 |